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  2. The Co-operative Group - Wikipedia

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    Co-op Franchise was established in 2019 and offers a franchised Co-op convenience store model. Franchise partners must share the Co-op's values and principles and meet other criteria. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] Costcutter founder, Colin Graves , was the first chair of the Co-op's 'Wholesale and Franchising Advisory Board'. [ 87 ]

  3. History of cooperatives in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Do It Best - Wikipedia

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    HWI was founded by Arnold Gerberding in 1945 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with the investments of 100 independent business owners in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Gerberding used the co-op model so HWI members could get better volume pricing from vendors by buying together rather than on their own. Independent hardware stores became members ...

  5. Wright-Patt Credit Union - Wikipedia

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    The organization that is now Wright-Patt Credit Union was founded in 1932. ... CO-OP Network, ... Ranked #1 in Best Ohio Credit Unions, 2019 by Forbes;

  6. Universal Cooperatives - Wikipedia

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    The distribution system included 110 regional feed mills, 26 warehouses, and 7 research farms. The company was formed November 1, 1972 by a merger of United Cooperatives, Inc. of Alliance, Ohio and National Cooperatives, Inc. of Albert Lea, Minnesota. The companies had inter-mixed ownership, leading to merger discussion, and eventual merger.

  7. Ohio Company of Associates - Wikipedia

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    The second contract was an option to buy all the land between the Ohio and the Scioto rivers and the western boundary line of the Ohio Company's tract, extending north of the tenth survey township from the Ohio, this tract being preempted by Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargent for themselves and others for the Scioto Company. Cutler's original ...

  8. History of the cooperative movement - Wikipedia

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    The United States first known Co-op was the mutual fire insurance company founded in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin. [15] 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.

  9. Herman Schneider - Wikipedia

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    Schneider, beginning from the rank of assistant professor, rose through the rank of dean of engineering (1906–1928) to become president (1929–32) of the University of Cincinnati, based largely upon the strength of the co-op program. Throughout his career, he was an advocate for the co-op framework.