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The Co-operative Group Limited, trading as Co-op and formerly known as the Co-operative Wholesale Society, is a British consumer co-operative with a group of retail businesses, including grocery retail and wholesale, legal services, funerals and insurance, and social enterprise.
The movement's cloverleaf logo created the impression that it was a single organisation rather than independent organisations sharing common principles.The brand was strengthened by the creation of the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG) in 1993, providing Co-op branded products and other food supplies to its members: by 2002, the CRTG provided 100% of food supplies sold by UK consumer co ...
The British co-operative movement is most commonly associated with The Co-operative brand (best known for its supermarket and Funeralcare brands) which has been adopted by several large consumers' co-operative societies; however, there are many thousands of registered co-operative businesses operating in the UK. [3]
The Co-operative Group said the fund would both help communities rebuild after going through a range of crises, and encourage sustainable economic development. 'Global mission'
Co-operative Retail Services (CRS, originally CWS Retail) was the second-largest consumer co-operative society in the United Kingdom. In 2000, it was dissolved by its members, merging with the larger Co-operative Wholesale Society, to form the Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd.
In the late 1960s the Co-op movement entered a new phase with Food cooperatives and Food Conspiracies as an alternative to corporate agriculture that linked organic farmers to urban consumers. The co-operative model has a long history in the U.S., including a factory in the 1790s, the Knights of Labor, and the Grange. [17]
In 2007, the National Co-operative Archive received Designated Collections Status, reflecting its importance to the heritage of England. The Co-operative Heritage Trust was formed in this year to independently safeguard the collections relating to the movement's heritage at a time of crisis for the Co-operative Group as a supportive entity.
In the early 1990s, the society maintained a distinctive local identity, alongside the 1968 national Co-op cloverleaf visible in the windows of its Burrowgate premises. When most other co-operatives in Cumbria merged into regional groups in the 1960s and 1970s, such as the Cumbrian Society and the Greater Lancastria Society (now both part of The Co-operative Group), the Penrith society ...