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The need for co-operatives and the work they do for communities around the world is still as great as ever, members of the movement have been told on the 180th anniversary of its formation.
Holyoake House in Manchester, home to a number of co-operatives including Co-operatives UK, the Co-operative College, and Co-op News. In addition to Co-operatives UK , the central membership organisation for British co-operatives, there are a variety of other support organisations and secondary co-operatives serving the sector.
Although other co-operatives preceded it, [2] the Rochdale Pioneers co-operative became the prototype for societies in Great Britain. The Rochdale Pioneers are most famous for designing the Rochdale Principles , a set of principles of co-operation, which provide the foundation for the principles on which co-ops around the world operate to this day.
His father was a saddler, ironmonger and local postmaster; his mother was the daughter of a Newtown farming family. Young Robert was the sixth of the family's seven children, two of whom died at a young age. His surviving siblings were William, Anne, John and Richard. [3] [4] Owen received little formal education, but he was an avid reader.
Euro Coop, established in 1957, is the European Community of Consumer Co-operatives that predominantly operates in the retail sector. [1] It currently represents 20 national members, which collectively oversee 7.000 co-operative enterprises, 94.000 points of sale, and 750.000 employees.
Born into a large Irish Catholic family on a farm in the Margaree Valley of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Moses was the eldest boy in a family of twelve.As a youth he was very concerned at the scale of outmigration from the valley: young men and women leaving for the steel mills and coal mines, or taking up jobs as domestics in the "Boston States".
Arla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Aarhus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.; Coop Norden (Coop Nordic) was a joint Scandinavian purchasing company that in 2007 dissolved and devolved to the constituent national cooperatives.
There are generally five major types of cooperative organizations: Consumers' cooperatives, in which the consumers of a co-operative's goods and services are defined as its members (including retail food co-operatives and grocery stores, credit unions, mutual insurance companies, etc.) (Example: REI, federal credit unions, etc.)