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Features >> Worldwide Co-operation

Co-op banks can weather banking crisis

Co-operative and mutual banks and not-for-profit savings banks have played an important role in the European financial system over the last century. Indeed, there remain several European co-operative banks that have a very strong presence in their domestic markets.
August 04 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Mad River Co-op shareholders celebrate at their resort

The ski co-op that bought a mountain

Want to buy a mountain? Well 1,800 skiers have: the Mad River Glen Co-operative (MRGC) in Vermont is the owner of the General Stark Mountain.
May 04 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Board members from the Tanzania Federation of Co-operatives meeting Julius Nyrere, former President of Tanzania

College rescues East Africa's rich co-op history

Co-operatives have a long history in East Africa, with some over 75 years old.
March 29 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Protestors in Egypt’s Tahrir Square (Picture: Jonathan Rasad)

A tense and crucial time for Middle East co-ops

I still wear, as Tony Blair might have put it, ‘the scars on my back’ from my involvement in the co-operative sector.
February 25 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Co-op touchdown for Super Bowl champions Green Bay Packers

This year's Super Bowl winners Green Bay Packers, who beat Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25, are the closest thing to be found to a co-operative in US major league sport . . .
February 07 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Muhammad Yunus, founder of the mutual Grameen Bank, has warned against big private organisations moving into the social microfinance sector (Picture: Andy Mettler/swiss-image.ch)

Private corporations set to cash in on financial mutuals

The relationship between cause and effect is usually a fascinating one — and often also a cruel one. Severe distress and economic hardship being felt in the villages of Andhra Pradesh in Southern India is a case in point.
November 19 2010
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Members of Chiyambi Co-op outside their store

Farmers sow seeds of change for Malawi’s co-ops

Imagine if the government just closed down the co-operative movement and took over all the assets of the consumer societies, farmer co-operatives — the lot?
August 26 2010
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Unified Grocers serves more than 3,000 stores in the USA

Stateside co-ops are big business

At the end of the Second World War, most Americans did their grocery shopping at an independently owned grocery store. However, tremendous shifts took place in food retailing in the post-war consumer boom.
May 14 2010
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Sir Thomas Boughey’s headteacher Dave Boston hands over $500 to a representative of workers’ co-operative Tshepanang with Co-operative College Principal Mervyn Wilson looking on

Shared values unite a co-operative school with Africa

Perhaps it is only in the Co-operative Movement that an alliance of shared values could be formed between former members of the armed wing of the African National Congress and school pupils in Staffordshire.
March 29 2010
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

ZACK HOCKING … ‘Typical funds do well when the stock market does well. When it falls it can go the other way. Ethical funds are not terribly exposed to banks, so they avoided all this carnage’

Ethics are good (for your wallet)

A sustainable investment fund launched by Co-operative Investments — part of Co-operative Financial Services — illustrates the ‘co-operative difference’ when it comes to making money for investors.
August 20 2009
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

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