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Co-op Kobe (Japanese: コープこうべ), officially known as Consumer Co-operative Kobe, is a Kobe, Japan-based consumers' cooperative. It is the largest retail cooperative in Japan and, with over 1.2 million members, is one of the largest cooperatives in the world.
Notable examples of agricultural cooperatives include Dairy Farmers Of America, the largest dairy company in the US, [2] Amul, the largest food product marketing organization in India [3] and Zen-Noah, a federation of agricultural cooperatives that handles 70% of the sales of chemical fertilizers in Japan. [4]
Riceland Foods, Inc. is the largest farmer-owned rice and soybean marketing cooperative in the world with headquarters in Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States.The cooperative was founded in 1921 and has become a major rice and grain miller and a global marketer of the same.
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 ...
Co-op City in The Bronx, New York City, is the largest cooperative housing development in the world, with 55,000 people. [49] The two largest supermarkets chains in Switzerland, Migros and Coop, are cooperatives. The third largest bank, Raiffeisen, is a cooperative as well.
The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain.. It was founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956 by Father José María Arizmendiarrieta and a group of his students at a technical college he founded.
Farmland Industries was the largest agricultural cooperative in North America when it eventually sold all of its assets in 2002–04. During its 74-year history, Farmland served its farmer membership as a diversified, integrated organization, playing a significant role in agricultural markets both domestically and worldwide.
The largest worker-cooperative is Mondragon Corporation in Spain, which has over 80,000 associates (workers). The largest cooperative sector by membership is mutual insurance, with over a quarter million members. [29] The most comprehensive data collection on the largest cooperatives comes from the World Cooperative Monitor. [30] [31]