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A housing cooperative is a legal mechanism for ownership of housing where residents either own shares (share capital co-op) reflecting their equity in the cooperative's real estate or have membership and occupancy rights in a not-for-profit cooperative (non-share capital co-op), and they underwrite their housing through paying subscriptions or ...
Businesses that obtain contracts through a cooperative can take advantage of these pre-negotiated rates, resulting in cost savings on goods, services, or equipment. This is particularly advantageous for smaller businesses that may not have the same negotiating leverage or purchasing volume as larger organizations.
If the number of votes is based on the size of the business, there is a risk of all smaller businesses within the cooperative being outvoted by a larger business. A democratic solution that many retailers' cooperatives employ is an increase in votes based on business size, up to a certain point, say 5 or 10 votes.
CCA Global Partners, originally called Carpet Co-op of America, is a shared services membership purchasing cooperative company that was founded in 1984 as a carpet cooperative business in Manchester, New Hampshire. It has since expanded into 14 co-ops covering a variety of different industries. [1]
The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperatives, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
CWS flour mill in Silvertown, London, c. 1915. A co-operative wholesale society, or CWS, is a form of co-operative federation (that is, a co-operative in which all the members are co-operatives), in this case, the members are usually consumer cooperatives.
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.
There are generally five major types of cooperative organizations: Consumers' cooperatives, in which the consumers of a co-operative's goods and services are defined as its members (including retail food co-operatives and grocery stores, credit unions, mutual insurance companies, etc.) (Example: REI, federal credit unions, etc.)