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Kootenay Co-op (Nelson, British Columbia): A member-owned co-op known for natural and organic foods. East End Food Co-op (Vancouver, British Columbia): A community-focused store offering local and fairly traded products. Ottawa Valley Food Co-op (Ottawa, Ontario region): An online co-op that supports local farmers and producers.
From 1917 it was one of the largest consumer co-operatives in North America. [4] There was an adoption of Brotherhood economics, created by Toyohiko Kagawa, within cooperatives in Atlantic Canada from 1910 to 1940. Initiatives were undertaken to establish Women's Co-operative Guilds, recognizing the potential of women to bolster the cooperative ...
A key aspect of the food cooperative model is the socialization of potential profit associated with running a grocery store. In a typical food production model, a store is owned by a company, which is in turn managed by either a board of directors and shareholders if the company is publicly owned, or a collection of private individuals if it is not.
Overall, the survival rate of co-operatives in BC is significantly higher than that of conventional, capitalist forms of business. The 5-year survival rate of both operating and dissolved co-ops is 100 out of 150 co-ops (for which we have data) or 66.6%. This compares favourably to the 2008 Quebec study of survival rates of co-
Co-op Kobe (コープこうべ) in Hyōgo Prefecture is the largest retail cooperative in Japan and, with more than 1.2 million members, is one of the largest cooperatives in the world. In addition to retail co-ops there are medical, housing, and insurance co-ops alongside institutional (workplace based) co-ops, co-ops for school teachers, and ...
Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), operating as Co-op, is a co-operative federation providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. [3] [4] It was established in 1944 after a series of amalgamations of smaller cooperatives, starting in Saskatchewan, including the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wholesale Society and a fuel production and distribution co-op, [1 ...
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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] Chez Hotels; Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively ...