List of cooperatives
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This is a list of notable co-operative enterprises by country. Co-operatives are business organizations owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit.

Australia

  • Dairy Farmers
    Dairy Farmers
    Dairy Farmers is one of the largest and oldest dairy manufacturers in Australia, established in 1900, supplying products to local and international markets such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Kirin Holdings Company, Limited of Japan, via its subsidiary National Foods, acquired the...

    is one of the largest and oldest dairy manufacturers in Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    , established in 1900, supplying products to local and international markets such as eastern Europe
    Eastern Europe
    Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

    , the Middle East
    Middle East
    The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

     and Asia
    Asia
    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

    . Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
    Kirin Brewery Company
    is a Japanese company. It is a member of the Mitsubishi keiretsu.-Overview:Kirin sells two of the most popular beers in Japan, Kirin Lager--the country's oldest beer brand--and Ichiban Shibori. In the happoshu category, Kirin Tanrei is the top seller. Kirin handles domestic distribution for...

     of Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    , via its subsidiary National Foods
    National Foods
    National Foods is an Australian company and subsidiary of holding company Lion Nathan National Foods , wholly owned by the Japanese Kirin Holdings Company Limited, and consequently the Mitsubishi Group....

    , acquired the company on 27 November 2008.
  • Community Healthfulness Cooperative is a cooperative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

     formed by a group of people from Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

    , Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

     in 2009. The cooperative are working to provide a community where people struggling to cope can find support and work to regain their health.

Canada

  • Arctic Co-operatives Limited (retail co-operative in the Nunavut
    Nunavut
    Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

    , Northwest Territories
    Northwest Territories
    The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...

    , Northern Manitoba
    Northern Region, Manitoba
    The Northern Region is a region in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is situated on the Canadian Shield and includes Manitoba's Hudson Bay coastline. The major economic activities are mining and tourism. The region is composed of four census divisions: 19 and 21–23...

    .
  • Blocks Recording Club
    Blocks Recording Club
    Blocks Recording Club is a Canadian co-operative of musicians, which serves as both a collaborative artist community and a record label for its member artists.The label's name may also be cited graphically as □□□□□□ rather than the word "Blocks"...

    (record label)
  • The Canadian Co-operative Association
    Canadian Co-operative Association
    The Canadian Co-operative Association is a national cooperative federation for Canadian co-operatives headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. CCA represents over 2000 co-operatives and credit unions with 9 million members...

     (CCA)
    is a national cooperative federation
    Cooperative federation
    A co-operative federation or secondary co-operative is a co-operative in which all members are, in turn, co-operatives.Historically, co-operative federations have predominantly come in the form of co-operative wholesale societies and co-operative unions...

     for Canadian co-operatives headquartered in Ottawa
    Ottawa
    Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

    , Ontario
    Ontario
    Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

    .
  • Canadian Press
    Canadian Press
    Canadian Press Enterprises Inc. is the entity which "will take over the operations of the Canadian Press" according to a November 26, 2010 article in the Toronto Star...

    (newswire)
  • Canadian University Press
    Canadian University Press
    Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 90 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada. Founded in 1938, CUP is the oldest student newswire service in the world and the oldest national student organization in North America. Many...

    (newswire for student newspapers)
  • The Co-operators
    The Co-operators
    The Co-operators Group Limited, founded in 1945, is a Canadian insurance co-operative owned by 45 members including co-ops and credit union centrals. It is one of the largest wholly Canadian-owned multiline insurers, offering auto, home, life, farm, travel, and business insurance as well as...

    , founded in 1945, is a Canadian insurance
    Insurance
    In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...

     co-operative owned by 40 members.
  • Farmers of North America
    Farmers of North America
    Farmers of North America is a volume-buyer group, incorporated in March 1998 by a rural Saskatchewan farm family, with the intention of increasing the profitability of the small farmer. The organization has now grown over 7500 producers representing more than in British Columbia, Alberta,...

    , Farmers buying co-operative.
  • Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), is a co-operative federation
    Cooperative federation
    A co-operative federation or secondary co-operative is a co-operative in which all members are, in turn, co-operatives.Historically, co-operative federations have predominantly come in the form of co-operative wholesale societies and co-operative unions...

    , established in 1955, providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada.
  • Home Hardware
    Home Hardware
    Home Hardware is a privately held Canadian home improvement, construction materials, and furniture retailer. Co-founded in 1964 by Walter Hachborn and headquartered in St...

    is a privately held Canadian home improvement
    Home improvement
    Home improvement, home renovation or remodeling is the process of renovating or making additions to one's home.-Types of home improvement:...

    , construction materials, and furniture
    Furniture
    Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...

     retailer. Co-founded in 1964 by Walter Hachborn
    Walter Hachborn
    Walter Hachborn, is a Canadian businessman who is the co-founder of Home Hardware, a Canadian home improvement and construction retailer which supplies to contractors and individual consumers....

     and headquartered in St. Jacobs, Ontario
    St. Jacobs, Ontario
    The community of St. Jacobs is located in southwest Ontario, just north of Waterloo in Woolwich Township, Waterloo Region. It is a popular location for tourism, due to its Mennonite heritage and retail focus. The Conestogo River, which powered the village's original gristmill, runs through the...

    , the chain is cooperative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

    ly owned by over 1000 independently owned member stores.
  • Mountain Equipment Co-op
    Mountain Equipment Co-op
    Mountain Equipment Co-op is a Canadian consumers' cooperative, which sells outdoor recreation gear and clothing to its members exclusively. MEC is notable for its commitment to environmental protection and other causes. As a co-op, MEC sells only to customers who hold a lifetime membership, which...

    (MEC) is a Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     consumers' cooperative
    Consumers' cooperative
    Consumer cooperatives are enterprises owned by consumers and managed democratically which aim at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of their members. They operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a form of mutual aid, oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit...

    , which sells outdoor recreation gear and clothing.

Alberta

  • Alberta Wheat Pool
    Alberta Wheat Pool
    The Alberta Wheat Pool was the first of Canada's wheat farmer co-operatives.-Early years:In 1923, the United Farmers of Alberta met with then Attorney General John Edward Brownlee to consider setting up a Wheat Pool just in Alberta...

  • Calgary Co-op
    Calgary Co-op
    Calgary Co-operative Association Limited is a retail cooperative operating in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.-History:...

    (retail co-op)
  • United Farmers of Alberta
    United Farmers of Alberta
    The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

    (UFA) is an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary
    Calgary
    Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

    , Alberta
    Alberta
    Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

    , Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    .

British Columbia

  • Aaron Webster Housing Cooperative
    Aaron Webster Housing Cooperative
    Aaron Webster Housing Cooperative is a housing cooperative located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The co-op, located on Pender Street, was completed in 1987 and comprises one four-storey building complex with thirty-one suites, four of which are wheelchair accessible.The co-op was renamed...

    (formerly Cityview Co-op) is a housing cooperative
    Housing cooperative
    A housing cooperative is a legal entity—usually a corporation—that owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit, sometimes subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease. ...

     located in Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

    , British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

    , Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    .
  • CJLY-FM
    CJLY-FM
    CJLY-FM, known on-air as Kootenay Co-op Radio, is a Canadian community radio station, which broadcasts at 93.5 FM in Nelson, British Columbia...

    , radio station in Nelson, British Columbia
    Nelson, British Columbia
    Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City", and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush,...

    .
  • CFRO-FM
    CFRO-FM
    CFRO-FM, licensed and owned by Vancouver Co-operative Radio, is a non-commercial community radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Coast Salish territory. It is a legally registered co-operative and is branded as Co-op Radio. They broadcast on 102.7 megahertz FM...

    , licensed and owned by Vancouver Co-operative Radio, is a non-commercial community radio
    Community radio
    Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

     station in Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

    , British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

    , in Coast Salish
    Coast Salish
    Coast Salish languages are a subgroup of the Salishan language family. These languages are spoken by First Nations or Native American peoples inhabiting the territory that is now the southwest coast of British Columbia around the Strait of Georgia and Washington state around Puget Sound...

     territory.
  • Otter Co-op
    Otter Co-op
    The Otter Co-op is a consumers' cooperative in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada. It placed 37 by revenues on Canada’s Top 50 Co-operatives in 2007.-Organization:Management is divided into seven different departments:*Administration*Petroleum...

    is a consumers' cooperative
    Consumers' cooperative
    Consumer cooperatives are enterprises owned by consumers and managed democratically which aim at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of their members. They operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a form of mutual aid, oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit...

     in Aldergrove
    Aldergrove, British Columbia
    Aldergrove is a small town within the jurisdiction of the The Township of Langley, a municipality within Greater Vancouver. Located at the southeastern edge of both Langley and Greater Vancouver, and nearby to the metropolitan area of Abbotsford, British Columbia just east, Aldergrove has a...

    , British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

    , Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    .

Manitoba

  • Manitoba Cooperative Association
    Manitoba Cooperative Association
    The Manitoba Cooperative Association is the provincial association of cooperative organizations, created by its members to enhance and support the development of a united, growing and influential cooperative movement in Manitoba...

    (MCA) is the provincial association of cooperative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

     organizations, created by its members to enhance and support the development of a united, growing and influential cooperative movement in Manitoba
    Manitoba
    Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

    .


Old Market Autonomous Zone Marketing Co-op (formed in 2010) comprises the cooperatives and activist groups located in the heritage building at 91 Albert St in Winnipeg's Exchange District. It houses the following cooperatives:
  • Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse is a political bookstore, vegan cafe and organic grocery store located in The Old Market Autonomous Zone
    The Old Market Autonomous Zone
    The Old Market Autonomous Zone, or A-Zone, was founded in 1995, in Winnipeg, Canada by local activists Paul Burrows and Sandra Drosdowech, who also co-founded Winnipeg's Mondragon Bookstore. Its name is derived from "Old Market Square," the historic Exchange District in Winnipeg's downtown core...

     at 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg
    Winnipeg
    Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

    , Manitoba
    Manitoba
    Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

    , Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    .

Ontario

  • Canadian University Press
    Canadian University Press
    Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 90 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada. Founded in 1938, CUP is the oldest student newswire service in the world and the oldest national student organization in North America. Many...

    is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 90 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    .
  • Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited
    Gay Lea
    Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited is a dairy products co-operative in Canada producing butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, whipped cream and lactose free milk for retail, foodservice, industrial and export markets...

    is a dairy products co-operative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

     in Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     producing butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, whipped cream and lactose free milk for retail, foodservice, industrial and export markets.
  • Guelph Campus Cooperative
    Guelph Campus Cooperative
    The Guelph Campus Cooperative is located in Guelph, Ontario. It is a student run cooperative offering the University of Guelph community a bookstore and student housing. The Guelph Campus Cooperative began operations in 1913....

    is located in Guelph
    Guelph
    Guelph is a city in Ontario, Canada.Guelph may also refer to:* Guelph , consisting of the City of Guelph, Ontario* Guelph , as the above* University of Guelph, in the same city...

    , Ontario
    Ontario
    Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

    . It is a student run cooperative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

     offering the University of Guelph
    University of Guelph
    The University of Guelph, also known as U of G, is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College, the Macdonald Institute, and the Ontario Veterinary College...

     community a bookstore and student housing.
  • Ontario Co-operative Association
    Ontario Co-operative Association
    The Ontario Co-operative Association or On Co-op is a co-operative association serving co-operatives and co-op member organizations in Ontario, Canada...

    or On Co-op is a co-operative association
    Cooperative federation
    A co-operative federation or secondary co-operative is a co-operative in which all members are, in turn, co-operatives.Historically, co-operative federations have predominantly come in the form of co-operative wholesale societies and co-operative unions...

     serving co-operatives and co-op member organizations in Ontario, Canada.
  • Organic Meadow Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative in Ontario
    Ontario
    Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

    . The cooperative originated in 1989 after local farmers sitting around a kitchen table realized that commercialized farming practices were not sustainable for them.
  • Rochdale College
    Rochdale College
    Opened in 1968, Rochdale College was an experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada. It provided space for 840 residents in a co-operative living space. It was also a free university where students and teachers would live together and share knowledge...

    , Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

     (defunct)
  • Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative
  • Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated
    Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated
    Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated, also known as WCRI, is a non-profit student housing co-operative located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is owned by its residents, who are mostly students at the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, or Conestoga College...

    , also known as WCRI, is a non-profit student housing co-operative located in Waterloo, Ontario
    Waterloo, Ontario
    Waterloo is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the city of Kitchener....

    , Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    .
  • Wireless Nomad
    Wireless Nomad
    Wireless Nomad was a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Canada providing subscriber-owned home and business internet along with free Wi-Fi wireless Internet access the 85+ nodes, making it one of the largest free Wi-Fi networks in the country at the time...

    was a non-profit cooperative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

     based in Toronto, Canada providing subscriber-owned home and business internet along with free Wi-Fi
    Wi-Fi
    Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

     wireless Internet access the 70+ nodes, making it one of the largest free Wi-Fi networks in the country at the time.

Quebec

  • Agropur
    Agropur
    Agropur is a Canadian Agricultural cooperative headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.Founded in 1938, the Agropur cooperative is the Canadian dairy industry leader, with $3 billion in annualized sales...

    is a Canadian Agricultural cooperative headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec
    Longueuil, Quebec
    Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly across from Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census totaled 229,330, making it the third largest city in...

    , Canada.
  • Desjardins Group

Saskatchewan

  • CCRL Refinery Complex
    CCRL Refinery Complex
    The CCRL Refinery Complex is an oil refinery spread over located in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada owned by Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Limited that is in turn owned by Federated Co-operatives Limited . The refinery provides oil products to the member co-operatives of FCL...

    is an oil refinery
    Oil refinery
    An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas...

     spread over 544 acres (2.2 km²) located in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan
    Regina, Saskatchewan
    Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...

    , Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     owned by Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Limited (CCRL) that is in turn owned by Federated Co-operatives Limited
    Federated Co-operatives
    Federated Co-operatives Limited , is a co-operative federation, established in 1955, providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. Federated Co-operatives is owned by about 265 member co-operatives across the region...

     (FCL).
  • CFCR-FM
    CFCR-FM
    CFCR-FM, is the community radio station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which broadcasts at 90.5 FM. The station also streams live from their web site and airs on SaskTel Max, channel 820...

    - Community Radio Station (Saskatoon)
  • Concentra Financial
    Concentra Financial
    Concentra Financial, is Canada's only financial retail association, a co-operative, providing financial and trust solutions to over 300 Canadian credit unions. Concentra is owned by its members who include credit unions, provincial credit union centrals and other financial co-operatives...

  • Saskatoon Co-op
    Saskatoon Co-op
    Saskatoon Co-operative Association Limited is a retail cooperative operating in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.-Present Operations:...

    (Saskatoon)
  • Saskatoon Farmers' Market
    Saskatoon Farmers' Market
    The Saskatoon Farmers' Market is a public Farmers' market housed in a former electrical warehouse and garage in the Riversdale, district of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The building was renovated and a outdoor market plaza created as part of the River Landing redevelopment. The market and...

    (Saskatoon)
  • Sherwood Co-op
    Sherwood Co-op
    Sherwood Co-operative Association Limited is a retail cooperative operating in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.-Present Operations:...

    (Regina)
  • Southern Rails Cooperative
    Southern Rails Cooperative
    The Southern Rails Cooperative Ltd. is a Canadian short line railway company operating on trackage in southwest Saskatchewan. Southern Rails Cooperative was the first shortline railway to operate in Saskatchewan and operated as the first modern common carrier shortline railway...

    (railway)

Denmark

  • Arla Foods
    Arla Foods
    Arla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Århus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia. Arla Foods was formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy cooperative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods on 17 April 2000.Arla Foods is the seventh...

    is a Swedish-Danish cooperative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

     based in Århus, Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

    , and the largest producer of dairy
    Dairy
    A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a dedicated dairy farm or section of a multi-purpose farm that is concerned...

     products in Scandinavia
    Scandinavia
    Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

    .
  • FDB , or The Danish Consumers Co-operative Society is a consumer co-operative based in Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

    .

France

  • Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole
    Crédit Agricole S.A. is the largest retail banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the eighth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. It is also part of the CAC 40 stock market index....

  • Enercoop
    Enercoop
    Enercoop is a French electricity supplier. It is the only one in France in the form of a cooperative. Its founding members include Greenpeace and other leading actors of environmental protection and the ethical economy....

    is a French electricity supplier. It is the only one in France in the form of a cooperative
    Cooperative
    A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

    .

India

  • Adarsh Co-operative Bank
    Adarsh Co-operative Bank
    Adarsh Co-operative Bank, formerly Madhav Nagrik Sahakari Bank, is a Multi-State Co-operative Bank that had begun operations in 1972, at Sirohi District of Rajasthan with a motive to create an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common,economic, social and cultural...

  • Amul
    Amul
    Amul , formed in 1946, is a dairy cooperative in India. It is a brand name managed by an apex cooperative organisation, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd...

  • Anyonya Co-operative Bank Limited
  • Indian Coffee House
  • Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited
    Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited
    Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited, also known as IFFCO, is the world’s largest fertiliser cooperative federation based in India which is registered as a Multistate Cooperative Society...

  • KRIBHCO
    KRIBHCO
    Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited is an Indian cooperative society, that manufactures fertilizer, mainly urea. It registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act in 1985, and was promoted by the Government of India, and some agricultural co-operative societies spread all over the...

  • Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union
    Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union
    Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Limited was the First Co-operative Milk Producers' Union started in Gujarat, formed in Kheda district, whose founding chairman was social worker, Tribhovandas Patel....

  • Mother Dairy
    Mother Dairy
    Mother Dairy, set up in 1974, is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board of India.-Products:Mother Dairy's range of products include the brands Mother Dairy , Dhara and Safal .Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable...

  • Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank
    Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank
    Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank is a cooperative bank founded by Pratibha Patil, in 1973 in Jalgaon in Maharashtra with the objective of empowering women. Pratibha Patil is a senior leader of Indian National Congress and President of India...

  • Sant Muktabai Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana
    Sant Muktabai Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana
    Sant Muktabai Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana known as Sant Muktabai Cooperative Sugar Factory is a cooperative factory founded by President of India Pratibha Patil the nominee of UPA and Indian left for 2007 election for President of India...

  • Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
    Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
    Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad, popularly known as Lijjat, is an Indian women's cooperative involved in manufacturing of various fast moving consumer goods. The organization's main objective is empowerment of women by providing them employment opportunities. Started in the year 1959 with a...

  • Vasudhara Dairy
    Vasudhara Dairy
    Vasudhara Dairy is a dairy cooperative in India, headquartered in Alipore, approx 3 km from Chikhli. It produces and markets milk and ghee for the local market under the Amul brand name. Its current capacity is 4 lakh litres per day.It has branches at Nagpur and Boisar...


Ireland

  • Dublin Food Co-op is a vegetarian food co-operative located in The Liberties
    The Liberties
    The Liberties of Dublin, Ireland were jurisdictions that existed since the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century. They were town lands united to the city, but still preserving their own jurisdiction. The most important of these liberties were the Liberty of St...

     area of Dublin, Ireland
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

    , which deals primarily in organic wholefood produce.

Israel

  • Dan Bus Company
    Dan Bus Company
    Dan Bus Company is an Israeli bus company based in Tel Aviv. It operates local bus service in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area as well as some intercity bus services between the Gush Dan area and nearby regions such as Samaria, and a connection between Bne Brak and Jerusalem. Dan operates 1,200...

  • Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd
  • Granot central cooperative
    Granot central cooperative
    Granot Central Cooperative Ltd. is a purchasing organization of the kibbutz movement in Israel. The chairman is Itzhak Bader, who has held the position since 1995....

  • Kibbutz
    Kibbutz
    A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

  • Tnuva Central Cooperative for the Marketing of Agricultural Produce in Israel Ltd.
    Tnuva
    Tnuva, or Tenuvah, is a cooperative in Israel specializing in milk and dairy products. The 620 members of the cooperative are made up a large number of kibbutzim and moshavim in Israel...


Japan

  • Co-op Kobe
    Co-op Kobe
    Co-op Kobe , officially known as Consumer Co-operative Kobe, is a Kobe, Japan-based consumers' cooperative. Founded in 1921, it is the largest retail cooperative in Japan and, with over 1.2 million members, is one of the largest cooperatives in the world....

    , officially known as Consumer Co-operative Kobe, is a Kobe
    Kobe
    , pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

    , Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    -based consumers' cooperative
    Consumers' cooperative
    Consumer cooperatives are enterprises owned by consumers and managed democratically which aim at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of their members. They operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a form of mutual aid, oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit...

    . It is the largest retail cooperative in Japan and, with over 1.2 million members, is one of the largest cooperatives in the world.

Nepal

  • Guita Saving and Cooperative Ltd., Guitole, Lalitpur-8, Nepal website

New Zealand

A selection of the larger members of the New Zealand Cooperatives Association (see for full list)
  • Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited
    Fonterra
    Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational dairy co-operative owned by almost 10,500 New Zealand farmers. The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world's dairy exports and with revenue exceeding NZ$19.87 billion, is New Zealand's largest company.- History :In...

    is a New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     multinational
    Multinational corporation
    A multi national corporation or enterprise , is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation...

     dairy
    Dairy
    A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a dedicated dairy farm or section of a multi-purpose farm that is concerned...

     co-operative owned by more than 10,500 New Zealand farmers.
  • Foodstuffs (Auckland) Ltd
    Foodstuffs
    Foodstuffs is a group of three New Zealand grocery and liquor retailers' cooperatives based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch which collectively control an estimated 57% of the New Zealand grocery market...

  • Foodstuffs South Island Ltd
    Foodstuffs
    Foodstuffs is a group of three New Zealand grocery and liquor retailers' cooperatives based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch which collectively control an estimated 57% of the New Zealand grocery market...

  • Foodstuffs (Wellington) Ltd
    Foodstuffs
    Foodstuffs is a group of three New Zealand grocery and liquor retailers' cooperatives based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch which collectively control an estimated 57% of the New Zealand grocery market...

  • SBS Bank
    SBS Bank
    SBS Bank is a building society and registered bank in New Zealand founded in 1869 as Southland Building Society. It is New Zealand's largest building society, and claims to be the only building society in the world to have become a recognised bank while maintaining its mutual status. Its head...

  • Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
  • Westland Cooperative Dairy Company Ltd
    Westland Milk Products
    Westland Milk Products is the trading name of Westland Co-operative Dairy Company Limited, an independent co-operative dairy company. It is owned by over 340 farmer shareholders, who supply milk to the factory for processing...


Scandinavia

  • Coop Norden
    Coop Norden
    Coop Norden is a joint Scandinavian holding company, formerly a retail chain. It is owned by three major cooperative retail companies; Danish FDB , Swedish KF , and Norwegian Coop NKL . As a retailer Coop Norden operated around 1,000 stores and had a yearly turnover of approximately SEK 90 billion...

    (Coop Nordic) is a joint Scandinavia
    Scandinavia
    Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

    n purchasing company.

Spain

  • The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
    Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
    The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. Founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956, its origin is linked to the activity of a modest technical college and a small workshop producing paraffin heaters...

    is a federation
    Cooperative federation
    A co-operative federation or secondary co-operative is a co-operative in which all members are, in turn, co-operatives.Historically, co-operative federations have predominantly come in the form of co-operative wholesale societies and co-operative unions...

     of worker cooperative
    Worker cooperative
    A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically managed by its worker-owners. This control may be exercised in a number of ways. A cooperative enterprise may mean a firm where every worker-owner participates in decision making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one in which...

    s based in the Basque region of Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

    .

United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man

  • The Co-operative Group
    The Co-operative Group
    The Co-operative Group Ltd. is a United Kingdom consumer cooperative with a diverse range of business interests. It is co-operatively run and owned by its members. It is the largest organisation of this type in the world, with over 5.5 million members, who all have a say in how the business is...

    is a United Kingdom consumers' co-operative, and, after the acquisition of Somerfield
    Somerfield
    Somerfield was a chain of small to medium sized supermarkets operating in the United Kingdom. The company was taken over by the Co-operative Group on 2 March 2009 in a £1.57 billion deal, creating the UK's fifth largest food retailer. The name is currently being phased out and replaced by the...

     supermarkets, is the world's largest consumer-owned business, with over 4.5 million members and 123,000 employees across all its businesses. Regional and local retail co-operative societies are corporate members of the Group. Includes:
    • Co-operative Bank
      Co-operative Bank
      The Co-operative Bank plc is a commercial bank in the United Kingdom and Guernsey, with its headquarters in Manchester.The bank markets itself as an ethical bank, and refuses to invest in companies involved in the arms trade, global climate change, genetic engineering, animal testing and use of...

  • Anglia Regional Co-operative Society
    Anglia Regional Co-operative Society
    Anglia Regional Co-operative Society Limited is the fifth largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the merger of the Greater Peterborough Regional and Anglia Co-operative Societies in 1987. The Society has a wide-ranging and extensive portfolio with over 100 stores,...

    is the fifth largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    .
  • Baywind Energy Co-operative
    Baywind Energy Co-operative
    Baywind Energy Co-operative was the first co-operative to own wind turbines in the United Kingdom.Baywind was modelled on the similar wind turbine cooperatives and other renewable energy co-operatives that are common in Scandinavia, and was founded as an Industrial and Provident Society in 1996. It...

  • Bristol Wood Recycling Project
    Bristol Wood Recycling Project
    The Bristol Wood Recycling Project is a not for profit social enterprise based in Bristol, UK and was founded in April 2004. BWRP's profit is not distributed between shareholders or other stakeholders...

  • Channel Islands Co-operative Society
    Channel Islands Co-operative Society
    The Channel Islands' Co-operative Society Limited is a consumer co-operative. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union Ltd. in the United Kingdom, the Co-operative Retail Trading Group, the Co-operative Travel Trading Group and a corporate member of...

  • Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society
    Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society
    Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society Limited is a consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union Ltd., the Co-operative Retail Trading Group, the Co-operative Travel Trading Group and a corporate member of...

  • Colchester and East Essex Co-operative Society
  • Co-operative Press
    Co-operative Press
    The Co-operative Press is a British small co-operative society whose principal activity is the publication of The Co-operative News. The mission of the Society is "To be the best news service and forum in the co-operative, mutual and social...

  • East of England Co-operative Society
    East of England Co-operative Society
    The East of England Co-operative Society Limited is the third largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union Ltd., the Co-operative Retail Trading Group, the Co-operative Travel Trading Group and a...

  • Heart of England Co-operative Society
    Heart of England Co-operative Society
    The Heart of England Co-operative Society Limited is a regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union Ltd., the Co-operative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of Co-operative Group Ltd. , the...

  • Highburton Co-operative Society
    Highburton Co-operative Society
    Highburton Industrial and Provident Society Limited, or Highburton Co-op, was a small consumer co-operative based in the West Yorkshire village of Highburton, five miles southeast of Huddersfield. The Society was founded in 1856, buying the building from the church, and operating a single store on...

  • Ilkeston Co-operative Society
    Ilkeston Co-operative Society
    Ilkeston Co-operative Society was a consumer co-operative society based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England.By 2006, Ilkeston had created one of the largest independent travel companies in the UK, operating 42 branches throughout the East Midlands and South Yorkshire...

  • John Lewis Partnership
    John Lewis Partnership
    The John Lewis Partnership is an employee-owned UK partnership which operates John Lewis department stores, Waitrose supermarkets and a number of other services...

     (employee-owned business, not formal co-op)
  • Lincolnshire Co-operative Society
    Lincolnshire Co-operative Society
    Lincolnshire Co-operative is a consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union Ltd., the Co-operative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of Co-operative Group Ltd...

  • Magpie Recycling
    Magpie Recycling
    Magpie Recycling is a worker cooperative based in Brighton, England.Magpie Recycling was founded in 1990 at the Hanover Community Centre and became a co-operative Limited Company in 1992. It currently has 31 employees and an annual turnover in excess of £500,000....

  • Midcounties Co-operative
  • Midlands Co-operative Society
    Midlands Co-operative Society
    The Midlands Co-operative Society Limited is a regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union Ltd., the Co-operative Retail Trading Group, the Co-operative Travel Trading Group and a corporate member of...

  • New Internationalist
    New Internationalist
    New Internationalist is a magazine from New Internationalist Publications, a co-operative-run publisher based in Oxford, England. It has editorial and sales offices in Toronto, Canada; Adelaide, Australia; Christchurch, New Zealand; and New York, USA....

  • Penrith Co-operative Society
    Penrith Co-operative Society
    The Penrith Co-operative Society Limited, known locally as Penrith Co-op, is a small regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. The society was formed in 1890 and today operates one department store with supermarket attached and eight small supermarkets or convenience stores in Cumbria...

  • People's Press Printing Society
    People's Press Printing Society
    The People's Press Printing Society is a readers' co-operative to own and publish a left-wing, British, daily newspaper Daily Worker, known as The Morning Star from 1966...

  • Phone Co-op
    Phone Co-op
    The Phone Co-op is a British telecommunications co-operative, which operates under self-imposed environmental and ethical guidelines. It provides telephone and internet services, including web hosting and broadband to private customers, businesses and charities...

  • Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society
  • Radstock Co-operative Society
    Radstock Co-operative Society
    Radstock Co-operative Society Ltd is a small consumer co-operative, which was established in Radstock, Somerset in 1868.The society operates a large supermarket in Westfield, near Radstock, and ten convenience shops in towns and villages in the area...

  • Ruskin House
    Ruskin House
    For the re-generation plan for the centre of Croydon, see Ruskin SquareRuskin House, situated in its own grounds on Coombe Road, Croydon, South London, has been an important centre of Britain's progressive movements for a century...

  • Scottish Midland Co-operative Society
  • Seeds for Change Lancasterhttp://www.seedsforchange.org.uk
  • Seeds for Change Oxford Collectivehttp://www.seedsforchange.org.uk
  • Shared Interest
    Shared Interest
    Shared Interest Society Limited is a fair trade financial co-operative based in the United Kingdom formed in 1990. Today it provides credit and financial services to fair trade producers, retailers, importers and exporters throughout the world. Shared Interest works with both Fairtrade Labelling...

  • Shepley Co-operative Society
    Shepley Co-operative Society
    Shepley Co-operative Society Limited is a small consumer co-operative based in the West Yorkshire village of Shepley in the United Kingdom. The Society operates a single store on Station Road....

  • Southern Co-operatives
    Southern Co-operatives
    Southern Co-operatives Limited is a regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union Ltd., the Co-operative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of Co-operative Group Ltd. , the largest consumer...

  • Suma Wholefoods
    Suma (co-operative)
    Suma is the trading name of the Triangle Wholefoods Collective Ltd, a worker co-operative incorporated as an industrial and provident society. It was founded in Leeds in 1975 and is now based in Elland, West Yorkshire. It is the largest independent wholefood wholesaler in the United Kingdom...

     (Triangle Wholefoods Collective Ltd)
  • Swann Morton
    Swann Morton
    Swann Morton Ltd. is a British manufacturer of scalpel handles, blades and other surgical equipment. It was founded in 1932 by W. R. Swann, J. A. Morton and D. Fairweather to make and sell razor blades.Mr Swann's founding principles:...

     worker co-op
  • Veggies of Nottingham
  • Wooldale Co-operative Society
    Wooldale Co-operative Society
    Wooldale Co-operative Society Limited is a small consumer co-operative based in the West Yorkshire village of Wooldale. The society operates three convenience stores in the Holme Valley villages of New Mill, Thongsbridge and Wooldale...



Football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 and rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 supporters' trust
Supporters' trust
In British sports, a supporters' trust is a formal, democratic and not-for-profit organisation of fans who attempt to strengthen the influence of supporters over the running of the club they support...

s are incorporated as co-operatives of supporters. Several own the football club outright and many hold equity in the club.

United States

  • Ace Hardware
    Ace Hardware
    Ace Hardware Corporation is a hardware cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. ACE Hardware Corporation, with 4,444 stores, does over $3 billion in retail hardware sales annually down from its peak of $12.5 billion in 2007.-History:...

    is a hardware cooperative
    Retailers' cooperative
    A retailers' cooperative is a type of cooperative which employs economies of scale on behalf of its retailer members. Retailers' cooperatives use their purchasing power to acquire discounts from manufacturers and often share marketing expenses. It is common for locally owned grocery stores,...

     based in Oak Brook
    Oak Brook, Illinois
    Oak Brook is a village in DuPage and Cook Counties, in Illinois. The population was 8,702 at the 2000 census. A suburb of Chicago, it is the headquarters of McDonald's and Lions Clubs International.-History:...

    , Illinois
    Illinois
    Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

    , United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    . Ace Hardware was founded in 1924 by Richard Hesse, E. Gunnard Lindquist, Frank Burke
    Frank Burke
    Frank Burke may refer to:*Frank Burke , American Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient*Frank James Burke , American organized crime figure...

     and Oscar Fisher in Chicago, Illinois
    Illinois
    Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

    .
  • Affiliated Foods Inc.
  • Affiliated Foods Midwest Co-op Inc.
  • Affiliated Foods Southwest
    Affiliated Foods Southwest
    Affiliated Foods Southwest was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. It was founded in 1948 by C. E. "Doc" Toland, who had worked in a cooperative in Little Rock, Arkansas called Model Markets...

  • AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
  • Agribank, FCB
  • Ant Hill Cooperative
    Ant Hill Cooperative
    List of member cooperatives of the North American Students of Cooperation * 1614 Co-op* 21st Street Co-op* * * Berkeley Student Cooperative* * * * * * in Boulder, Colorado* * Community of Urbana Champaign Cooperative Housing*...

  • Ashland Food Co-op
  • Associated Food Stores
    Associated Food Stores
    Associated Food Stores is an American retailers cooperative that supplies about 500 independently owned retail supermarkets throughout Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Nevada and Wyoming. The company was founded by Donald P. Lloyd in 1940, who was the president of the Utah Retail...

  • Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc
  • Associated Grocers of the South, Inc.
  • Associated Grocers, Inc.
  • Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

  • Associated Wholesale Grocers
    Associated Wholesale Grocers
    Associated Wholesale Grocers is the second-largest retailer-owned grocery wholesaler in the United States, after Wakefern Food Corporation. The cooperative serves over 1,900 stores in 21 states. It was founded in 1924 as Associated Grocers of Kansas City and is based in Kansas City, Kansas...

  • Associated Wholesalers, Inc.
  • Audubon Mutual Housing Corporation
    Audubon Park, New Jersey
    Audubon Park is a Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 1,023.Audubon Park was incorporated as a borough on July 3, 1947, from portions of Audubon Borough, based on the results of a referendum held on October 28, 1947,...

  • Basin Electric Power Cooperative
    Basin Electric Power Cooperative
    Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a wholesale electric generation and transmission cooperative based in North Dakota that provides electricity to 2.8 million customers in nine U.S. states. The roots of the cooperative go back to 1960 when Leland Olds and ten power suppliers created Giant Power...

  • Black Star Co-op
    Black Star Co-op
    Black Star Co-op is a community-owned brewpub co-op in Austin, Texas. It is the first brewpub to operate under the Cooperative Principles. It opened its doors in 2010 and currently has almost 3,000 members. It supports an on-site brewery as well as a restaurant and beer bar....

     A brewpub located in Austin, TX
  • Blue Diamond Growers
    Blue Diamond Growers
    Blue Diamond Growers is a Californian agricultural cooperative and marketing organization that specializes in almonds. Founded in 1910 as the California Almond Grower’s Exchange, the organization claims to be the world's largest "tree nut processing and marketing company"...

  • Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
    Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
    The Brown Association for Cooperative Housing is a 5013 non-profit student housing cooperative located in Providence, Rhode Island...

  • Cabot Creamery
    Cabot Creamery
    The Cabot Creamery Cooperative is an American dairy agricultural marketing cooperative, wholly owned by the Agri-Mark Cooperative.Originally started as Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery in 1919 by farmers in Cabot, Vermont, it was taken over by the Agri-Mark Cooperative in 1992...

    , Vermont-based dairy marketing
  • Central Grocers Cooperative
    Central Grocers Cooperative
    Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917, is a retailers' cooperative based in Joliet, Illinois near Chicago. It distributes both brand name and private label goods branded as Centrella and Silver Cup Value Buy to about 240 member-owner grocery stores in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.It...

  • Certified Grocers Midwest
    Certified Grocers Midwest
    Certified Grocers Midwest was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It was founded in 1940 and was a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. Many of its stores served the Hispanic community. It...

  • Choptank Electric Cooperative
  • CHS Inc.
    • CoBank
      CoBank
      CoBank, ACB, a part of the United States Farm Credit System, is an agricultural credit bank serving cooperatives in the agricultural sector. It lends money to farm credit associations, agricultural businesses, and rural utilities, who collectively own CoBank. It also owns 100% of Farm Credit...

  • Cooperative Development Foundation
    Cooperative Development Foundation
    The Cooperative Development Foundation is a 501 charitable organization engaged in cooperative development in the United States. CDF administers revolving loan funds, provides grants, and fosters economic development through the formation of cooperatives...

  • Dairy Farmers of America
    Dairy Farmers of America
    Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. is a national milk marketing cooperative in the United States. It is owned by and serves nearly 16,000 dairy farmer members representing more than 9,000 dairy farms in 48 states. DFA buys raw milk from its members and sells milk and derivative products to wholesale...

  • Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
    Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
    The Dairylea Cooperative was founded in 1907 as The Dairymen's League when group of dairy farmers in Orange County, New York, united to increase their bargaining power. By the 1920s, the Cooperative's membership had increased to more than 100,000 farms. While based initially in Pearl River, New...

  • Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc.
  • Do It Best
    Do It Best
    Do It Best Corp. is a hardware store retailers' cooperative. It was founded as Hardware Wholesalers, Inc in 1945 in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Arnold H. Gerberding along with 75 dealers who would become members and invest $1,000 in exchange for shares of stock in the company. Donald Wolf was CEO...

  • Equal Exchange
    Equal Exchange
    Equal Exchange is a for-profit Fairtrade worker-owned, cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange distributes organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Founded in 1986, it is...

  • Farm Credit Bank of Texas
    Farm Credit Bank of Texas
    Farm Credit Bank of Texas, located in Austin, Texas, is a wholesale financing institution that is part of the cooperatively owned nationwide Farm Credit System...

  • First Tech Credit Union
    First Tech Credit Union
    First Tech Federal Credit Union is a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration...

  • Florida's Natural Growers
    Florida's Natural Growers
    Florida's Natural Growers is an agricultural cooperative based in Lake Wales, Florida. It is currently owned by over 1,100 grower members.-History:...

     (formerly Citrus World Inc.)
  • Florists' Transworld Delivery
    Florists' Transworld Delivery
    -Going public:In 1994, FTD began a process of demutualization.On December 19, 1994, a precursor to the FTD Corporation, a private, for-profit company, acquired FTD, which then divided FTD into two organizations: FTD Incorporated, a for profit corporation, and FTD Association, a non-profit trade...

     (FTD)
  • George Street Co-op
    George Street Co-op
    The George Street Co-op is a food cooperative located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The George Street Co-op runs a retail store at 89 Morris Street, selling foods and select hygiene and household products to the general public and to its membership...

  • Great River Energy
    Great River Energy
    Great River Energy is an electric transmission and generation cooperative in the U.S. state of Minnesota; it is the state's second largest electric utility, based on generating capacity, and the fifth largest generation and transmission cooperative in the U.S. in terms of assets...

  • Greenbelt Homes, Inc.
    Greenbelt Homes, Inc.
    Greenbelt Homes, Incorporated is the housing cooperative in Greenbelt, Maryland comprising the original houses built by the US Federal Government in 1936 during the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, as well as additional defense housing built in 1941 by the Farm...

  • Greenbelt News Review
    Greenbelt News Review
    The Greenbelt News Review was established in 1937 as a volunteer cooperative shortly after settlement of Greenbelt, Maryland, and was originally called The Cooperator...

  • Group Health Cooperative
    Group Health Cooperative
    Group Health Cooperative, more commonly known as Group Health, is a Seattle, Washington based nonprofit healthcare organization. Established in 1947, it today provides coverage and care for about 700,000 people in Washington and Idaho and is one of the largest private employers in Washington...

  • GROWMARK, Inc.
  • Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan
    Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan
    The Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan is a student owned and operated housing cooperative serving students and community members in Ann Arbor, Michigan...

     (Ann Arbor MI)
  • Land O'Lakes
    Land O'Lakes
    Land O'Lakes is a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in Arden Hills, Minnesota, focusing on the dairy industry. The co-op states that it has about 3200 producer-members, 1000 member-cooperatives, and about 9000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 agricultural...

  • Madison Community Co-op
    Madison Community Cooperative
    Madison Community Cooperative, or MCC, is an umbrella organization composed of 11 housing cooperatives in Madison, Wisconsin with around 200 residents and food co-opers. MCC is a member of North American Students of Cooperation as well as the Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund ....

  • Mariposa Food Co-op
  • MFA Incorporated
    MFA Incorporated
    MFA Incorporated is a Midwest-based regional agricultural Cooperative serving more than 45,000 farmer/owners in Missouri and adjacent states.Founded on March 10, 1914, MFA was organized in Brunswick, Missouri at the Newcomer School. William Hirth was MFA's first president, serving until his death...

  • Michigan State University Student Housing Cooperative
  • National Cooperative Bank
    National Cooperative Bank
    National Cooperative Bank is a cooperative financial institution chartered by the United States Congress in 1978, primarily to serve the financial needs of cooperatives...

     (now NCB)
  • National Grape Cooperative Association, Inc.
  • National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation
    National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation
    The National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation is a privately owned, non-governmental organization that provides financial products to American electric cooperatives. NRUCFC was established as a source of private financing for rural electric cooperatives to supplement the loan...

  • Navy Federal Credit Union
    Navy Federal Credit Union
    Navy Federal Credit Union is a credit union headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration of the U.S. federal government. Navy Federal is the largest natural member credit union in the world, both in asset size and in...

  • New Deal Cafe
    New Deal Cafe
    The New Deal Cafe is a restaurant and community coffee house in the historic Roosevelt Center of Greenbelt, Maryland. It is a rare example of a restaurant operated as a consumers' cooperative, as it is owned by over 200 member patrons....

  • New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union
    New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union
    New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union is a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration . NMEFCU is the largest credit union by membership in New Mexico...

  • Nebraska Rural Radio Association
  • NonProfits' United
    NonProfits' United
    NonProfits' United , established in 1988 as Paratransit Insurance Corporation and based in Oakland, California, is a cooperative self-insurance pool that offers commercial auto insurance and workers' compensation coverage to California nonprofit agencies, including senior centers, food banks, group...

  • Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
    Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
    The Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund is a cooperative development fund based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. NCDF acts as a financial intermediary, obtaining deposits and investments from cooperative enterprises and their supporters and providing loans and other assistance to cooperative...

  • Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
    Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
    The Oberlin Student Cooperative Association is a $2.6 million dollar non-profit corporation that feeds 640 and houses 174 Oberlin College students. It is located in the town of Oberlin, Ohio, and is independent from but closely tied to Oberlin College. OSCA is the second-largest student...

  • Ocean Spray (cooperative)
    Ocean Spray (cooperative)
    Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative of growers of cranberries and grapefruit headquartered in Lakeville/Middleborough, Massachusetts. It currently has over 600 member growers . The cooperative employs about 2,000 people, with sales of $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2005...

  • Oglethorpe Power Corporation
  • Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
    Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
    Old Dominion Electric Cooperative is an electric generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia. ODEC provides wholesale power to its 11 member electric cooperatives in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Through these member cooperatives, ODEC provided over 11 million...

  • Park Slope Food Coop
    Park Slope Food Coop
    The Park Slope Food Coop is a food cooperative located in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is one of the oldest and largest active food co-ops in the United States...

  • Pentagon Federal Credit Union
    Pentagon Federal Credit Union
    Pentagon Federal Credit Union is a federal credit union headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration...

  • People's Food Co-op (Portland)
    People's Food Co-op (Portland)
    People's Food Co-op is a food cooperative located in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1970 by the members of a food-buying club, the co-op is owned by over 3000 member owners and is a member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association and the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives.-Board...

  • Piggly Wiggly Alabama
  • Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
    Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oklahoma)
    Pioneer Telephone Cooperative is a cooperatively owned telecommunications company that provides telephone and other telecommunications services in a large portion of the state of Oklahoma.Its headquarters are in Kingfisher, Oklahoma...

     (Oklahoma)
  • Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
    Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oregon)
    Pioneer Telephone Cooperative is a cooperatively owned telecommunications business that provides telephone service in a region of western Oregon, including parts of four counties. The company has offices in Waldport and Philomath....

     (Oregon)
  • R.E.I. (Recreational Equipment Inc.)
    R.E.I.
    REI is a privately held American retail corporation organized as a consumers' cooperative, selling outdoor recreation gear, sporting goods, and clothes via some 110 retail stores in about 30 states, catalogs, and the Internet. The company opens four to six new stores each year...

  • Rapidan Camps
  • Riceland Foods
    Riceland Foods
    Riceland Foods, Inc., located in Stuttgart, Arkansas, U.S.A., is an agricultural marketing cooperative and the world's largest miller and marketer of rice. Riceland had sales of $1.3 billion in the fiscal year ending July 31, 2009....

  • Scary Cow Productions
    Scary Cow Productions
    Scary Cow is a community-based independent film production cooperative in San Francisco.- Introduction :thumb|Castro Theater...

  • Snake River Sugar Company
  • Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
    Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
    The Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative is an electric distribution cooperative which is headquartered in Hughesville, Maryland. SMECO serves approximately 144,000 customers in Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, and St. Mary's counties of southern Maryland...

  • Southern States Cooperative
    Southern States Cooperative
    Southern States Cooperative is a agricultural supply cooperative owned by more than 300,000 farmers in the United States. Southern States Cooperative supplies farmers with feed, seed, fertilizer, farm supplies and fuel...

  • Sunkist Growers, Inc.
  • Tennessee Farmers Cooperative
    Tennessee Farmers Cooperative
    Tennessee Farmers Cooperative is a federated agricultural supply cooperative established in 1945 and headquartered in La Vergne, Tennessee. TFC has 57 member co-ops that are owned by some 70,000 farmers across the state. The cooperative's production and distribution centers are located at Tenco...

  • The Union Credit Union
    The Union Credit Union
    The Union Credit Union is a natural person credit union chartered to serve union members. A national advocate for unions and union members, it is headquartered in Spokane, Washington....

  • Tillamook County Creamery Association
    Tillamook County Creamery Association
    The Tillamook County Creamery Association is a dairy co-operative headquartered in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The association's main facility is the Tillamook Cheese Factory located two miles north of the city of Tillamook on U.S. Route 101.The Tillamook factory hosts over a million...

  • TOPCO Associates
  • True Value Corporation
  • U.S. AgBank, FCB
  • U.S. Central Credit Union
    U.S. Central Credit Union
    U.S. Central Federal Credit Union is the largest corporate credit union in the United States. Unlike consumer driven credit unions , U.S. Central provides its services only to other corporate credit unions, in effect acting as the "corporate credit union's credit union". The organization was...

  • Unified Western Grocers
    Unified Western Grocers
    Unified Grocers, originally Unified Western Grocers, is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independent supermarkets in the Western United States. It was formed in 1999 as the merger of United Grocers of Oregon and Certified Grocers of California...

  • USA Federal Credit Union
    USA Federal Credit Union
    United Services of America Federal Credit Union was a credit union headquartered in San Diego, California, chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration of the U.S...

     (San Diego, Ca)
  • United Hardware Distributing Company
    United Hardware Distributing Company
    United Hardware Distributing Co. is a dealer-owned corporation based in Plymouth, Minnesota which provides distribution services for about 610 member-owned stores, the majority of which operate under the Hardware Hank trade name. In addition, the company services about 800 other stores owned by...

     (Hardware Hank)
  • Universal Cooperatives
    Universal Cooperatives
    Universal Cooperatives, based in Eagan, Minnesota, is a cooperative controlled by 17 regional agricultural marketing and agricultural supply cooperatives. The distribution system includes 110 regional feed mills, 26 warehouses, and 7 research farms...

  • University Students Cooperative Association
  • URM Stores
  • VHA, Inc.
    VHA, Inc.
    VHA Inc., based in Irving, Texas, is a cooperative that serves more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 24,000+ non-acute care facilities in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Founded in 1977, VHA provides supply chain management services and promotes and supports the formation of regional...

  • Wakefern Food (ShopRite
    ShopRite (United States)
    ShopRite Supermarkets is a retailers' cooperative chain of supermarkets in the northeastern United States, with stores in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania...

    )
  • Weaver's Way Co-op
  • Weaver Street Market
    Weaver Street Market
    Weaver Street Market is a worker- and consumer-owned cooperative selling natural and organic food with a focus on local and fair trade products. The original market is situated in the heart of Carrboro, North Carolina in Carr Mill Mall and plays host to a large number of community events...

  • Wedge Community Co-op
    Wedge Community Co-op
    The Wedge Community Co-op or The Wedge is a food cooperative located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Located at 2105 Lyndale Ave South, the Wedge derives its name from the popular nickname for the Lowry Hill East neighborhood, called "The Wedge" due to its shape...

  • Western Family Holding Company
  • Western Sugar Cooperative
    Western Sugar Cooperative
    The Western Sugar Cooperative is a grower owned American agricultural cooperative.Its origins date from 1903 when Charles Boettcher founded the Great Western Sugar Company and opened a sugar beet plant in Loveland, Colorado and another in Greeley, Colorado...

  • WestFarm Foods
    WestFarm Foods
    Darigold, Inc. is an American dairy agricultural marketing cooperative. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is owned by the over 700 dairy farm members of the Northwest Dairy Association located in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California.The cooperative was founded in 1918 as the...

  • Wheatsville Co-op
    Wheatsville Co-op
    Wheatsville Co-op is a community owned food co-operative in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1976, and currently has 8,000 members. It sells a full line of groceries, including organic produce, fresh meats, deli products, dairy products, pet foods and household goods....

  • Winfield Park Mutual Housing Corporation
  • WSIPC
    WSIPC
    The Washington School Information Processing Cooperative is a public cooperative in Washington that provides information services to the state's school districts. The board members of the co-op are primarily composed of Superintendents from the State's nine educational service districts...


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