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Also Gray's Foods in Rockford. Fellow co-op Certified Grocers Midwest merged into Central Grocers in 2008. [3] [4] Prior to 2009, the company was headquartered in Franklin Park, Illinois. [5] [6] As of 2013, it was the seventh largest grocery cooperative in the United States, with over $2 billion on consolidated annual sales. [7]
On May 20, 2019, the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, listed two four story sixteen apartment buildings, Alku 1 and Alku Toinen, (Finnish for Beginning 1 and 2), located at 816 and 826 43rd Street, Kings County Brooklyn New York, as the first two coop buildings in the US, built by Finnish immigrants, on the National Register of Historic Places.
Farmers Elevator Company of Graymont, now known as the Graymont co-op association, was founded 1904. [3] The original structures no longer exist, but the company is still operation and has expanded to become one of the largest in Livingston County, IL. The State Bank of Graymont began operations in 1913. [4]
The first dairy co-op was founded in 1810 with small locals found nationwide by 1866. The first known consumer co-op in 1845 was Boston's Workingman's Protective Union. The country's first organization to promote cooperative values and the Rochdale Principles was the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, known as the Grange that started after the ...
The organization now known as Growmark started in 1927 when nine of the local agricultural supply cooperatives in Illinois, which had started early in the 1920s, formed Illinois Farm Supply Company. In 1955, the company adopted the FS trademark, which has remained in use by its member cooperatives since then.
Best Western – hotel marketing; The Bike Cooperative – began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the Carpet One parent cooperative (CCA Global Partners); in 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent US bike store owners [17] [18]
Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9]
Coop or Co-op most often refer to: Chicken coop or other animal enclosure; Cooperative or co-operative ("co-op"), an association co-operating for mutual social, economic or cultural benefit Consumers' co-operative; Food cooperative; Housing cooperative (as in "a co-op apartment") Building cooperative; Worker cooperative; Cooperative board game