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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.
Calgary Co-op (retail co-op) United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary , Alberta , Canada , with over 120,000 members and with 2007 revenues of over $1.8 billion, UFA is ranked as the 37th largest business in Alberta by revenue according to Alberta Venture magazine.
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 ...
The National Cooperative Grocers Association maintains a food cooperative directory. Seattle-based R.E.I., which specializes in outdoor sporting equipment, is the largest consumer cooperative in the United States. [24] Outdoor retailer Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) in Canada was one
Consumers' co-operatives of Canada (7 P) Credit unions of Canada (2 C, 9 P) F. Former cooperatives of Canada (12 P) M. Media cooperatives in Canada (24 P) W.
The Secretariat also provides a link between the co-op sector and the many federal departments and agencies with which they interact. The Co-operatives Secretariat, housed in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is dedicated to economic growth and social development of Canadian society through co-operative enterprise. The mandate of the ...