A CooperativeWholesaleSociety , or CWS, is a form of Cooperative Federation that is, a Cooperative in which all the members are Co operatives , in this case, the members are usually Consumers Cooperative s. According to Cooperative economist Charles Gide , the aim of a CooperativeWholesaleSociety ... century Cooperative Group . Indeed, in Britain, the terms CooperativeWholesaleSociety or CWS ... Wales CooperativeWholesaleSociety who have also described themselves as CooperativeWholesale Societies or CWS . Bibliographical history The Story of the C. W. S. The Jubilee History of the CooperativeWholesaleSociety 1863 1913 by Percy Redfern viii, 439, 1 p. tables & illlustrations, includes ... published by The CooperativeWholesaleSociety Limited of Manchester UK c1913 no date ref The New ... from French by the Cooperative Reference Library, Dublin, Consumers CoOperative Societies , Manchester The CoOperative Union Limited, 1921, p. 122 ref In other words, a CooperativeWholesaleSociety is a form of Federal Cooperative through which Consumers Co operatives can collectively purchase goods at wholesale prices, and in some cases collectively own factories or farms. The best ... published in October, 1938, on the completion of seventy five years of the CooperativeWholesaleSociety limited. Note on documentary sources pp. 527 530 Biographical supplement pp. 565 589. Cooperative Federalism CooperativeWholesale Societies have been advocated by Cooperative Federalism , which is the school of thought in Cooperative economics favouring Consumer Cooperative societies. The Cooperative Federalists have argued that Consumers Co operatives should form CooperativeWholesale ..., pp. 192 203. ref See also List of Cooperative Federations References reflist External links http archive.co op.ac.uk The National Cooperative Archive holds records relating to the CooperativeWholesaleSociety. Co operatives Category Cooperatives Category Business models eo Kooperativa pogranda ... more details
Scottish CooperativeWholesaleSociety Ltd. v. Meyer 1959 AC 324 is a UK company law case, concerning ... ref Facts The Scottish CooperativeWholesaleSociety Ltd. set up a new company called Scottish ... of the nominee directors, who tried to get the trade for the Scottish CooperativeWholesaleSociety ..., these The cooperativesociety set up a competing business. It established its own merchant converting ... than it did to the textile company. It is said that the cooperativesociety did this with intent to injure the textile company to depress the value of its shares so that the cooperativesociety ... were off and the cooperativesociety was able to engage in rayon production itself and it had ... of the cooperativesociety and could be let go into liquidation. The cooperativesociety had ... their shares to the cooperativesociety at a price to be negotiated mentioning 96s. , the cooperativesociety refused at the present time. The cooperativesociety thought, perhaps, that if they waited ... more favourable to the cooperativesociety than paying 96s. a share. Such being the matters complained ... directors here? Under the articles of association of the textile company the cooperativesociety ... own directors and they held office, as the articles said, as nominees of the cooperativesociety. These three were therefore at one and the same time directors of the cooperativesociety being three ... 545. , whereas their duty to the cooperativesociety was to obtain the new shares at the lowest possible price at par, if they could. Again, when the cooperativesociety determined to set up its own ... 1 All E.R. 350. , whereas they were under the self same duties to the cooperativesociety. It is plain ... not do so. They put their duty to the cooperativesociety above their duty to the textile ... against the conduct of the cooperativesociety. They probably thought that as nominees of the cooperativesociety their first duty was to the cooperativesociety. In this they were wrong. By subordinating ... more details
Infobox cooperative name Shepley CooperativeSociety Limited logo File Co oplogo.png 80px type Consumers cooperative Consumer Cooperative foundation location city Shepley , Huddersfield location country United Kingdom key people M. Green, Secretary industry Retail products Grocer revenue operating income net income members num employees homepage Shepley CooperativeSociety Limited is a small consumer cooperative based in the West Yorkshire village of Shepley in the United Kingdom . The Society operates a single store on Station Road. It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society , a member of the Cooperative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of Cooperative Group Ltd. formerly CooperativeWholesaleSociety , the largest consumer cooperative in the world. UK consumer co ops Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom retail company stub ... more details
distinguish The Midcounties Cooperative Infobox cooperative name Midlands CooperativeSociety Limited logo File Midlands Cooperative Society.png type Consumer Cooperative foundation location city Central ... Midlands CooperativeSociety Limited. In 1995, the boards of the Leicestershire and Central ... operative. Most recently, Chesterfield CooperativeSociety merged with the Society in 2001, Ilkeston CooperativeSociety in 2006, Raunds CooperativeSociety in 2007 and Moulton CooperativeSociety ... CooperativeSociety Limited, number 10143R publisher Financial Services Authority FSA work ... 2011 num employees 7,300 2011 homepage http www.midlands.coop midlands.coop The Midlands CooperativeSociety Limited is a regional consumer cooperative in the United Kingdom . It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society , ref Registered in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985 , No. 10143R ref a member of the Cooperative Union Ltd., the Cooperative Retail Trading Group , the Cooperative Travel Trading Group and a corporate member of Cooperative Group Ltd. formerly CooperativeWholesaleSociety , the largest consumer cooperative in the world. Since the merger of The Cooperative Group and United Co operatives in 2007, it is now the second largest cooperative in the UK. As its name suggests, the Society operates predominately in the English Midlands . Head office is located at Lichfield in Staffordshire . History The Society traces its origins to the Derby CooperativeSociety which, in 1854, was one of the first cooperative s in the Midlands. In 1969, a number of Leicestershire societies merged to form the Leicestershire CooperativeSociety Limited. Similar ... are now rebranded as The Cooperative Food , mirroring branding from The Cooperative Group. Funeral ... as The co opertive Motor Group in Lincoln. See also British cooperative movement History of the cooperative movement References reflist External links http www.midlands.coop Midlands Cooperative ... more details
also. References Looking Back... , South East region, CooperativeWholesaleSociety Membership & Education Dept., July 1992. Roffey, Ron 1999 . The Cooperative Way The Origins and Progress of the Royal Arsenal and South Suburban Cooperative Societies . CooperativeWholesaleSociety Ltd, South East Region. ISBN 085195 256 9. Defunct UK grocers Category Former co operatives of the United Kingdom ...The Croydon CooperativeSociety was a cooperative retailer in Croydon and surrounding parts of Surrey , England . In 1918, it became part of the new South Suburban CooperativeSociety , now the Cooperative Group . A cooperativesociety had been formed in Croydon in 1860, the Croydon Cooperative Industrial Society, with headquarters in Market Street and later at 39 Church Street. However, after several years of good progress, the Society went into voluntary liquidation in March 1874. A new society was formed in 1887, established at 85 Chesham Road, South Croydon . It first traded at 118 Church Street, then in 1888 moved to 128 130 Church Street and taking over neighbouring 132 in 1897. It was beset by inefficiency and poor practice, and competition from the rival Cooperative Coal Society operating from 1895 to 1902, registered in Northbrook Road. It was able to overcome other competition issues by a series of mergers the Caterham CooperativeSociety in 1906, the Epsom CooperativeSociety in 1916 and the Sutton, London Sutton CooperativeSociety. In 1907, the Society moved its trading premises to 30 London Road and then in 1914 it began to develop 99 London Road, north of central ... in the Croydon Society included Charles Bailey and Albert Gore. Bailey, an engineer, served as President from 1903, taking the society through the merger into the South Suburban and becoming President of the new society until 1938 35 years in office in total. Gore served on the board of Croydon ... with SSCS Category Companies established in 1887 Category Consumer Co operatives of the United ... more details
Infobox cooperative name Raunds CooperativeSociety logo File Raunds Co op.jpg 200px type Consumer Cooperative foundation location city location country United Kingdom key people area served Raunds industry products revenue operating income net income members num employees homepage File Raunds Co Op.jpg thumb left The Co op Food Store in Raunds. Raunds CooperativeSociety Limited was a consumer cooperativesociety based in Raunds , Northamptonshire , founded in 1891. ref name fsa Cite web url http mutuals.fsa.gov.uk SocietyDetails.aspx?Number 3003&Suffix R title Raunds CooperativeSociety ... talks date 2007 05 18 work Cooperative News accessdate 2008 08 11 ref It had 4,297 members in 2003 ... Co op date 2003 11 17 work Cooperative News accessdate 2008 08 11 ref It was a subscriber to the Cooperative Party and a customer member shareholder of the The Cooperative Group CooperativeWholesaleSociety . In 1983, it merged with the Ringstead Distributive CooperativeSociety . ref name fsa In early 2007, directors of the society presented to members a plan to merge with the much large Midlands CooperativeSociety , ref Cite web url http www.thenews.coop index.php?content story&id 1186 title Record profits for Raunds Co op title Members set to seal Raunds future date 2007 06 21 work Cooperative News accessdate 2008 08 11 ref but it did not reach the required vote of two thirds ... op.com pr article Statement relating to merger between Midlands Co o date 2007 08 23 title Press release Statement relating to merger between Midlands Co o publisher Midlands CooperativeSociety accessdate 2008 08 11 ref The two societies merged on 26 August 2007. See also cooperative Co op Co op UK The Cooperative Group References nowiki See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes for an explanation ... 2008 08 11 ref The society operated a large supermarket and a department store in Raunds, and as of 2007 ... reflist Defunct UK grocers Category Former co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Defunct ... more details
Infobox Company company name Moulton CooperativeSociety Ltd company logo company type Consumers cooperative Consumer cooperative foundation 1861 ref name fsa Cite web url http mutuals.fsa.gov.uk SocietyDetails.aspx?Number 259&Suffix R title Mutuals Public Register, Moulton CooperativeSociety Limited , number 259 publisher Financial Services Authority FSA accessdate 2009 01 22 ref location Moulton, Northamptonshire Moulton , United Kingdom UK defunct 2009 successor Midlands CooperativeSociety fate Merger key people area served Northamptonshire members industry Convenience store Retail Grocery revenue homepage The Moulton CooperativeSociety Limited , or simply Moulton Co op , was a small regional consumers cooperative consumer cooperative in the United Kingdom . The society was formed in 1861 and operated a single supermarket in Moulton, Northamptonshire . In January 2009, members voted overwhelmingly to transfer arrangements to Midlands CooperativeSociety , which took effect on 8 February 2009. ref name news cite news last Bowman first Dave coauthors title Moulton Co op to join forces with Midlands publisher The Cooperative News date 2009 01 20 url accessdate 2009 01 22 ref History The Moulton Co op was one of the last single store societies in the Midlands region, following the mergers of Desborough, Ilkeston CooperativeSociety Ilkeston and Raunds CooperativeSociety Raunds co ops with the Midlands Society in recent years. John Mitchinson became Chief Executive ... Cooperative movement The society was at the time of merger a member of the UK wide Cooperative Retail Trading Group CRTG and sold The Cooperative brand products. It was also a corporate member of hybrid consumer and wholesalecooperative, the Cooperative Group . 2009 Revamp After Midland Co op took the company over the store was re vamped. It was set to be re opened on 26th August 2009 ... Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Former co operatives of the United ... more details
Infobox cooperative name Clydebank CooperativeSociety Limited logo File Co oplogo.png 80px type Consumer Cooperative foundation Start date 1881 location city Clydebank , West Dunbartonshire location ... income net income num employees homepage The Clydebank CooperativeSociety Limited is the smallest consumers cooperative consumers cooperative in Scotland , based in the town of Clydebank near Glasgow. Along with Scotmid and The Cooperative Group , it is one of three cooperative retailers in Scotland, and the only one not merged into a regional or national society. Unusually for co operatives in the United Kingdom , it is not a member of Co operatives UK . However, in its founding year of 1881, it joined the Scottish CooperativeWholesaleSociety . ref Cite web url http www.theclydebankstory.com image.php?inum TCSM00016 title Clydebank Co op Board, 1881 accessdate 2008 05 10 publisher TheClydebankStory ref In the 21st century, Clydebank Co op has buying arrangements with the Cooperative Retail Trading Group CRTG , a buying group managed by The Cooperative Group , the successor of SCWS, which also manages The Cooperative brand . ref Cite web title About Us url http www.crtg.coop index.cfm item id 3 about CRTG year 2007 publisher Cooperative Retail Trading Group accessdate 2008 05 13 ref Stores The Society currently operates six food stores ranging from just over 6,500 ...?inum TCSM00016 Clydebank Co op Board, 1881 http www.theclydebankstory.com image.php?inum TCSM00017 Clydebank Co op Charabanc, 1922 http www.google.co.uk search?hl en&q site www.theclydebankstory.com Clydebank CooperativeSociety TheClydebankStory history and photographs of Co op enterprises via Google UK consumer co ops DEFAULTSORT Clydebank CoOperativeSociety Category Consumer Co operatives ..., Hardgate Cross, Hardgate See also British cooperative movement References nowiki See http en.wikipedia.org ... Dunbartonshire Cooperative, Clydebank Category 1881 establishments in Scotland Category Co operatives ... more details
The London CooperativeSociety was a consumer cooperativesociety in the United Kingdom . The Society was formed in September 1920 by the amalgamation of the Stratford CooperativeSociety and the Edmonton CooperativeSociety, two of the largest societies in the London Metropolitan area. In 1921, the LCS was also joined by the West London Society , the Kingston Society and the Cooperative Brotherhood Trust. In addition, the Society also took over two branches of the Staines Cooperative Party . The consolidation of cooperative societies in the Greater London area continued until 1938, with the absorption of Hendon CooperativeSociety in 1925, the North West London CooperativeSociety in 1928, the Epping CooperativeSociety in 1929, the Yiewsley CooperativeSociety in 1931, the Willesden Junction Railway Society in 1935 and the Radlett CooperativeSociety in 1938. Hence, the LCS ... thumb right 250px Former London CooperativeSociety creamery and railhead for British Railway ... Ealing . The Society was amalgamated with Cooperative Retail Services in 1981. Politically, the Society ... Collection Description of the London CooperativeSociety archive, held at the Bishopsgate Institute, London Other London area consumer cooperative societies South Suburban CooperativeSociety Royal Arsenal CooperativeSociety Enfield Highway CooperativeSociety Invicta CooperativeSociety ... played a large part in the national cooperative movement and was a member of the national and regional organisations, chief of which being the Cooperative Union to which the LCS subscribed. The LCS was also a shareholding member of the English The Cooperative Group CooperativeWholesaleSociety , generally known as the CWS, a federal wholesaling organisation for cooperative societies in England and Wales . By 1952, the LCS and its associated cooperative organisations, the major being the London Cooperative Chemists Limited, had over 550 establishments of sales and services, varying from ... more details
Infobox cooperative name Radstock CooperativeSociety Limited logo File Co oplogo.png 80px type Consumers cooperative Consumer Cooperative foundation 1868 location city Radstock , Somerset location country ... 300 2005 homepage http www.radstock co op.com radstock co op.com Radstock CooperativeSociety Ltd is a small consumer cooperative , which was established in Radstock , Somerset in 1868. ref name about Cite web url http www.radstock co op.com index.php about us title About us publisher Radstock CooperativeSociety accessdate 2 April, 2009 ref The society operates a large supermarket in Westfield ... title News 140th Anniversary year 2008 publisher Radstock CooperativeSociety ref The society participates in the British cooperative movement . As well as supplying cheese for national distribution by the Cooperative Retail Trading Group CRTG through Wyke Farms, it obtains food goods from the CRTG. It is a corporate member and shareholder of The Cooperative Group , a national business that is successor to the CooperativeWholesaleSociety. It is owned and democratically controlled by its customer members, who numbered approximately 7500 in 2007. Locations File The Cooperative ... story&id 1215 New Radstock chief gears up for Tesco fight , The Cooperative News , 24 August ... uses it in The Cooperative brand nationally distributed own label organic cheddar cheese . ref Cite news url http www.radstock co op.com index.php news 69 chickens title News Chickens year 2008 publisher Radstock CooperativeSociety ref ref Cite news url http www.radstock co op.com index.php news 70 say cheese title News Say cheese year 2008 publisher Radstock CooperativeSociety ref It previously ... The cooperative food fascias, and acquired stores in Shepton Mallet and Coleford, Somerset ... name coopnews ref name stores Cite web url http www.radstock co op.com index.php stores title Stores ..., post office, furniture, clothing, electrical goods, housewares and garden supplies. The society also ... more details
Infobox cooperative name Penrith CooperativeSociety Limited logo File Penrith cooperative logo.jpg type Consumers cooperative Consumer cooperative foundation Start date 1890 ref name fsa Cite web url ... CooperativeSociety Limited , number 2854R publisher Financial Services Authority FSA accessdate ... CooperativeSociety Limited , known locally as Penrith Co op , is a small regional consumers cooperative consumer cooperative in the United Kingdom . The society was formed in 1890 and today ... Society and the Greater Lancastria Society now both part of The Cooperative Group , the Penrith ... CooperativeSociety in 1969 the Lazonby & District CooperativeSociety in 1990 the Naworth Collieries CooperativeSociety in 1993 which had branches in the small north Pennine villages of Hallbankgate and Halton Lea Gate and most recently, in 2002, the Stanhope & Weardale CooperativeSociety ... Shap No2 and No 5 Keswick Home Store Cooperative movement The society is a member of the UK wide Cooperative Retail Trading Group CRTG and sells The Cooperative brand products. It is also a corporate member of hybrid consumer and wholesalecooperative, the Cooperative Group . In 2005, Rochdale ... and Post Office, Hallbankgate , Cumbria Stanhope Foodstore, Off Licence and Cooperative Bank Handybank ... as Cooperative Pharmacy . However, this shop has no connection with Penrith Co op s operations and, since United merged with the Cooperative Group in 2007, it forms part of the Cooperative Group Pharmacy division . In 2010 The Cooperative Group rebranded the Penrith branch of Somerfield as a Cooperative Food store so Penrith now has two Co op stores owned by two separate societies. References ... store s in Cumbria and County Durham . History Image Penrith Co Op.jpg thumb 250px In the early 1990s, the society maintained a distinctive local identity, alongside the 1968 national The Cooperative brand Cloverleaf brand Co op cloverleaf visible in the windows of its Burrowgate premises When most ... more details
department store was designed by G. S Hay of the CooperativeWholesaleSociety and occupied a large ...The Sheffield CooperativeSociety was a local consumer cooperative trading in Sheffield , South Yorkshire , England . The Society was founded as the Brightside and Carbrook Cooperative and opened its first shop in 1868, ref name munn Meg Munn , http www.thenews.coop features Wider 20Co op 20Movement 1006 Our Movement faces a stark choice either progress or stagnate , cooperative News , 1 June 2006 ref in the Carbrook, South Yorkshire Carbrook suburb of Sheffield. ref name stunned Richard Marsden, http www.thestar.co.uk news Shoppers stunned by Coop closure.3663239.jp Shoppers stunned by Co op closure , Sheffield Star The Star , 11 January 2008 ref Castle House The Co op opened shops around the city, and set up its first branch in Sheffield City Centre in 1929, on the corner of Exchange Street and Waingate, on part of the former site of Sheffield Castle . In 1962, this moved to a new site ... Cooperative Players in the 1960s. ref George Perry, The Life of Python ref Mergers In the 1980s, the Brightside and Carbrook Co op merged with the Sheffield and Ecclesall Cooperative to form the Sheffield CooperativeSociety. ref name stunned By 2006, the Society had 35 grocery shops, six travel ... Guides ref Members Eleanor Barton , a prominent cooperative movement activist, was for many ... faced competition within Sheffield from both the United Co operatives and the Cooperative Group . ref name munn In 2007, the Society voted to merge with the United Co operatives, which itself merged with the Cooperative Group shortly afterwards. ref http www.foodyorkshire.com foodyorkshire view.asp?content id 2399&parent id 124 Co op and United in merger talks , Food Yorkshire ref All three of the former Society s department stores, including Castle House, were closed in 2008. ref name ... of the United Kingdom Category Former co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Defunct department ... more details
supermarkets to Argyll Stores and the The Cooperative Group CooperativeWholesaleSociety CWS ... city Northern CooperativeSociety Limited abbreviated to Norco , previously named Northern Cooperative Company Limited , was a local consumer cooperative trading in Aberdeen , Scotland , from ...?lID 13278&sID 1689 title NORCO Records of the Northern CooperativeSociety publisher Aberdeen ... had a fixed capital of 1000, but in 1917, it converted into Northern CooperativeSociety. ref name archive The Society s headquarters were in a large building on Loch Street, which contained the company ... and cooperative movement Norco was previously noted as the only large consumer cooperative in the UK not to be a member of the Scottish or English CooperativeWholesale Societies. It employed 2000 ... organizations Scotmid Cooperative , Lothian, Borders & Angus CooperativeSociety Lothian, Borders & Angus Cooperative and Scottish Co op a retail division of CWS, now the Cooperative Group ... NORCO Records of the Northern CooperativeSociety publisher Aberdeen City Archives Cite news url ... cooperative. ref name archive The space age four storey Norco House department store was later ..., and operated by that cooperative for seven years. ref name archive ref name press2000 ref In 1993, Scottish Co op was a retail division of the The Cooperative Group CooperativeWholesaleSociety , from 2001 the Cooperative Group. ref In April 1992, Norco declared a loss of 7 million, and the chief ... co op calls in receiver work The Guardian publisher via Proquest News UK date 1993 06 18 author Seumas ... Howe.jpg thumb 250px Scottish Co op sold Norco s Berryden superstore to J Sainsbury , still as a going ... taken over the Scottish Co op superstore at Berryden pages 5 author Bob Reid ref Norco was formed in 1861 as Northern Cooperative Company, by two committees of Aberdeen residents who planned to follow the example of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society . ref name archive The first shop was a grocery ... more details
Infobox cooperative name Wooldale CooperativeSociety logo File Wooldale coop logo small.gif type Consumers cooperative foundation Start date 1886 09 27 ref name fsa Cite web url http mutuals.fsa.gov.uk SocietyDetails.aspx?Number 2554&Suffix R title Mutuals Public Register, Wooldale CooperativeSociety Limited, number 2554R publisher Financial Services Authority FSA accessdate 2008 07 05 ref location city Wooldale , Holmfirth location country United Kingdom key people area served Holme Valley , West Yorkshire industry Convenience store Retail Grocery , Post office ref Cite web url http www.cooponline.coop ... wooldale.coop Wooldale CooperativeSociety Limited Wooldale Industrial and Equitable CooperativeSociety Limited until 1989 ref name fsa is a small consumers cooperative consumer cooperative based in the West Yorkshire village of Wooldale . The society operates three convenience stores in the Holme Valley villages of New Mill, West Yorkshire New Mill , Thongsbridge and Wooldale . The society was founded in 1886. The society is a member of the CRTG Cooperative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of the Cooperative Group . It also has agreements with the Cooperative Group for stock distribution and promotions. Image New Mill library and cooperative shop by Humphrey Bolton.jpg thumb left 200px New Mill Village Store shares a building with a library In 2006, the society met with its small neighbouring societies, Shepley CooperativeSociety and Highburton CooperativeSociety with a view to merger. This could reduce costs and increase turnover by adding two further ... title Village Store, Wooldale accessdate 2008 07 04 work Co op Online publisher The Cooperative ... and in the spring of 2007, the society approached Rochdale based United Co operatives on the possibilities ... Meeting held on 11 May 2007, this proposal was defeated by the members of the Wooldale society on a near ... External links http www.wooldale.coop Official site UK consumer co ops Category Consumer Co operatives ... more details
The Leeds Industrial CooperativeSociety Leeds Co op was a United Kingdom British independent cooperativesociety based in Leeds , West Yorkshire , which merged with United Co operatives in 2007. Leeds Co op was founded in 1847 as a Cooperative Flour Mill Society, workers at Benyon & Co s flax spinning mill raising funds through instalments to acquire some land. By the end of the year it was selling flour cheaply to its members and the price of flour in the Borough of Leeds was lowered considerably. ref cite book last Holyoake first George Jacob title Jubilee History of the Leeds Industrial CooperativeSociety publisher year 1897 page 42 ref A mill, The People s Mill, was built in Leeds, just ... s largest cooperativesociety and it became the City s major retailer. Although it started as a flour miller, the society soon diversified into food and non food retailing. By late 2006 Leeds Co op was the oldest independent society in Britain, one of the largest businesses in Leeds., and the 19th largest cooperativeSociety in the United Kingdom, as other societies merged. At its merger with United, the society stood at over 700 employees and 21,000 members, trading at twenty one Co op supermarket ... and a large property portfolio in West Yorkshire. It was a shareholder of the Cooperative Group and traded using the Co op brand. In December 2006, Leeds members voted to merge the society with United Co operatives, the second largest society in the UK, subject to a further vote on 8 January 2007. http www.united.coop NewsLeeds.asp The members voted once again for merger, and Leeds Society ceded their assets to United in mid January 2007. Later in 2007, United merged with the Cooperative Group , the world s largest single cooperative. See also Cooperative Group References reflist Defunct UK grocers Category Companies based in Leeds Category Former co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Companies established in 1847 Category Companies ... more details
Infobox cooperative name Ilkeston CooperativeSociety logo type Consumers cooperative Consumer Cooperative foundation location city Ilkeston , Derbyshire location country United Kingdom key people area served members industry products revenue operating income net income num employees homepage Waybackdate site http www.ilkeston coop.co.uk date 20050901074347 in 2005 Image Ilkeston co operative.jpg right thumb The store in 2006 Ilkeston CooperativeSociety was a consumer cooperativesociety based in Ilkeston , Derbyshire , England . By 2006, Ilkeston had created one of the largest independent travel companies in the UK, operating 42 branches throughout the East Midlands and South Yorkshire . It also operated a department store, two bedding stores, a banqueting suite and two car body shops, having sold its car retail business to United Co operatives in 2004. In August 2006, directors of the Society outlined plans to merge with the Midlands CooperativeSociety . ref http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi england derbyshire 5275896.stm BBC ref ref http www.thenews.coop index.php?content story&id 1060 The News ref Following two members meetings in September, the two societies merged in November 2006. The newly enlarged Midlands Society has retained the name Ilkeston Co op Travel for the travel business, given its prominence. References reflist See also Cooperative Co op UK the Cooperative Group External links Waybackdate site http www.ilkeston coop.co.uk date 20050901074347 the former Ilkeston Co op website in 2005 Defunct UK grocers Category Former co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom Category Companies based in Derbyshire Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Companies disestablished in 2006 Category Defunct department stores of the United Kingdom UK service company stub ... more details
Infobox Company company name Highburton Industrial and Provident Society Limited company logo File Co oplogo.png 100px company type Consumers cooperative Consumer Cooperative foundation 22 July 1857 ref name fsa Cite web url http mutuals.fsa.gov.uk SocietyDetails.aspx?Number 173&Suffix R title Mutuals Public Register, Highburton Industrial and Provident Society Limited, number 173R publisher Financial Services Authority FSA accessdate 2009 02 16 ref location Highburton , Huddersfield , United Kingdom UK key people Roger Wilson, General Manager area served Highburton , Yorkshire defunct 2009 fate Shop closed society still exists as of 2009 members industry Convenience store Retail Grocery revenue homepage File Highburton village stores.jpg left thumb Highburton Co op, days before closure in February 2009 Highburton Industrial and Provident Society Limited , or Highburton Co op, was a small Consumers Cooperative consumer cooperative based in the West Yorkshire village of Highburton , five miles southeast of Huddersfield . The Society was founded in 1856, buying the building from the church, and operating a single store on Towngate in the village. The Society claimed to being the world s oldest operating independent single retail cooperative outlet. In 2006, the Society held talks with the nearby Wooldale CooperativeSociety Wooldale Co op with a view to merging the two Societies operations but these talks ended without a merger going ahead. Highburton Cooperative closed for business on the 27 February 2009. ref citeweb url http www.examiner.co.uk news local west yorkshire ... 02 16 ref The Highburton Industrial and Provident Society Highburton Co op voted to go into liquidation on 23 March 2010. The former Highburton Industrial and Provident Society Highburton Co op building ... reflist Defunct UK grocers Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Former co operatives of the United Kingdom retail company stub ... more details
Infobox Company company name Heart of England CooperativeSociety Limited company logo File Heart of England Co operative.png 160px company type Consumer Cooperative foundation 1832 location 22 Abbey Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV11 5BU key people Michael Sherwood, President br Ali Kurji, Chief Executive br Bryan Wheatley, General Manager revenue num employees industry Retail Wholesale products Grocer , Department Store , Funeral Director , Travel Agent , Sub Post Office homepage http www.heartofengland.coop www.heartofengland.coop The Heart of England CooperativeSociety Limited is a regional consumer cooperative in the United Kingdom . It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society , ref Registered in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985 , No. 2399R ref a member of the Cooperative Union Ltd., the Cooperative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of Cooperative Group Ltd. formerly CooperativeWholesaleSociety , the largest consumer cooperative in the world. Head office is located at Nuneaton in Warwickshire . The Society traces its origins to the Lockhurst Lane Industrial CooperativeSociety founded in the parish of Foleshill , Coventry in 1832. In 1968, Lockhurst Lane merged with the Coventry CooperativeSociety, established in 1867. In 1991, following a series of mergers, this became the Coventry and East Mercia CooperativeSociety, before adopting its current name in 2000. The Society operates supermarket s, department store s including Co op Electrix , funeral director s, travel agent s as The Cooperative Travel and sub post office s. Membership is open to all residents of its trading area, with members receiving a share of the profits in the form of dividend . See also British cooperative movement References reflist External links http www.heartofengland.coop Heart of England CooperativeSociety UK consumer co ops DEFAULTSORT Heart Of England CoOperativeSociety Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom Category ... more details
Infobox Company company name Chelmsford Star CooperativeSociety Limited company logo File Chelmsfordstar.jpg company type Consumer Cooperative foundation 1867 location 220 Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 OLS key people Maurice Austin, President br Tony Gudgeon, Chief Executive revenue num employees industry Retail Wholesale products Grocer , Department Store , Funeral Director , Travel Agent homepage http www.chelmsfordstar.coop www.chelmsfordstar.coop Chelmsford Star CooperativeSociety Limited is a consumer cooperative in the United Kingdom . It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society , ref Registered in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985 , No. 973R ref a member of the Cooperative Union Ltd., the Cooperative Retail Trading Group , the Cooperative Travel Trading Group and a corporate member of Cooperative Group Ltd. formerly CooperativeWholesaleSociety , the largest consumer cooperative in the world. The Society was founded in Chelmsford , mid Essex in 1867 with the intention of becoming the Star of the County . According to the International Cooperative Alliance , A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise. ref Statement on the Cooperative Identity Definition International Cooperative Alliance, Manchester, 1995 ref It operates supermarket s, Quadrant department store s, funeral director s and travel agent s. Membership is open to all residents of the Society s trading area, with members receiving a share of the profits in the form of dividend . See also British cooperative movement References reflist External links http www.chelmsfordstar.coop Chelmsford Star CooperativeSociety UK consumer co ops Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom Category Funeral directors in the United Kingdom Category Companies established in 1867 Category Chelmsford ... more details
Infobox Company company name East of England CooperativeSociety Limited company logo Image EastofEnglandlogo.jpg 200px company type Consumer Cooperative foundation 2005 1858 location Ipswich , Suffolk ... CooperativeSociety The East of England CooperativeSociety Limited is the third largest consumer cooperative in the United Kingdom . It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society , ref Registered in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985 , No. 1099R ref a member of the Cooperative Union Ltd., the Cooperative Retail Trading Group , the Cooperative Travel Trading Group and a corporate member of Cooperative Group Ltd. formerly CooperativeWholesaleSociety , the largest consumer cooperative in the world. Headquartered in Ipswich and trading in the England English counties ... er. History The East of England CooperativeSociety is an amalgamation of smaller societies from ... Essex CooperativeSociety merged with the Ipswich and Norwich CooperativeSociety in 2005. The consumer cooperative movement has its roots in the early part of the nineteenth century and the principles ... retail cooperative was established in 1844 by the Rochdale Pioneers . The Ipswich and Norwich Society was an amalgamation of the Ipswich Industrial CooperativeSociety founded 1868 and the Norwich CooperativeSociety founded 1858 . ref http www.eastofengland.coop data UserContentRoot incs Home x Ipswich History.asp A brief history of the Ipswich and Norwich CooperativeSociety East of England CooperativeSociety retrieved 3 September 2009 ref The Colchester and East Essex Society was founded as Colchester CooperativeSociety in 1861, expanding through merger with the Tiptree Self Help 1921 ... A brief history of Colchester and East Essex CooperativeSociety East of England Cooperative ... programme, the Cooperative Retail Trading Group. The Society has declared its founding traditions ... East of England CooperativeSociety UK consumer co ops Category Consumer Co operatives ... more details
Infobox Company company name The Channel Islands CooperativeSociety Limited company logo File Channel Islands CooperativeSociety logo.jpg company type Consumer Cooperative foundation 1919 location 27 Charing Cross, St. Helier JE1 1AS Jersey CI key people Mrs. J Le Feuvre, President br Mr. J Hopley, Chief Executive revenue num employees industry Retail products Grocer , Travel Agent , Home and Sports homepage http www.ci cooperative.com www.ci cooperative.com File Supermarket in Jersey.JPG thumb left The Grand March , a CICS supermarket in Saint Helier, Jersey. The Channel Islands CooperativeSociety Limited is a consumer cooperative . It is a registered Industrial and Provident Society , ref Registered in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985 , No. 14672R ref a member of the Cooperative Union Ltd. in the United Kingdom , the Cooperative Retail Trading Group , the Cooperative Travel Trading Group and a corporate member of Cooperative Group Ltd. formerly CooperativeWholesaleSociety , the largest consumer cooperative in the world. Head office is located at Saint Helier in the Bailiwick of Jersey . File Jersey Town Criterium 2009 009.jpg thumb left The 2009 Jersey Town Criterium passing the Cooperative Locale in Charing Cross, Saint Helier. The Jersey CooperativeSociety was formed in 1919 and the Guernsey CooperativeSociety followed in 1947. Both predecessors were supported by a CWS supervisory committee, which meant their accounts were liable to UK taxation ... cooperative movement References reflist External links http www.ci cooperative.com The Channel Islands CooperativeSociety UK consumer co ops Category Consumer Co operatives of the United Kingdom ... of the Channel Islands Society in 1955. ref http www.ci cooperative.com the societysociety history.asp Society History The Channel Islands CooperativeSociety . Retrieved 31 August 2009. dead link date February 2011 ref The Society operates nine supermarket s in Jersey and six in Guernsey, in addition ... more details
Looking Back... , South East region, CooperativeWholesaleSociety Membership & Education Dept., July 1992. Defunct UK grocers Category Former co operatives of the United Kingdom Category History of Croydon ...The South Suburban CooperativeSociety SSCS was a cooperative retailer in south London , Surrey and Kent , England . It became part of the CooperativeWholesaleSociety , now the Cooperative Group . The SSCS came into existence in 1918 with the amalgamation of the Croydon CooperativeSociety Croydon formed 1887 , Bromley and Crays formed 1882 and 1870 and Penge and Beckenham formed 1879 Societies. In 1930, SSCS merged with the Reigate Industrial and Provident Society , followed by the Tonbridge Industrial Society in 1938. In May 1947, a convert 13 acre m2 adj on sports centre was opened at Beckenham and in May 1949 employees were accorded full membership rights. The SSCS registered office was at 99 London Road, Croydon, Surrey, where it remained until it merged with the CooperativeWholesaleSociety on 28 July 1984. Following the merger of the Royal Arsenal CooperativeSociety RACS with CWS in February 1985, administration of both the SSCS and RACS was moved to Woolwich on 6 May 1985. The London Road offices closed on 17 May 1985 and moved to 18 Blackhorse Lane, Addiscombe until later that year. Cooperative education was an important part of the SSCS philosophy and in 1920 an Education Department was formed to arrange numerous educational, cultural and social activities and events. It became very influential in both local and national cooperative educational affairs. The SSCS financially supported a local Cooperative Party Committee, which initiated and sponsored local political candidates and events. The merger with CWS saw the SSCS operating shops and services over an area of convert 400 sqmi km2 of East Surrey and West Kent. In its last full trading year, the SSCS ... Crays CooperativeSociety, that does not have its own article Category Consumer Co operatives ... more details
. formerly CooperativeWholesaleSociety , the largest consumer cooperative in the world. ref Section VII Administration 70 Rules of the Anglia Regional CooperativeSociety , 10 February 2005 ref Trading ...distinguish East of England CooperativeSociety Infobox company company name Anglia Regional br CooperativeSociety Limited company logo File Anglia Cooperative logo.png 200px company type Consumer ... http www.arcs.co.uk intl yes Anglia Regional CooperativeSociety Limited is the fifth largest consumer ... CooperativeSociety, 6 September 2008 ref Previously located at Westgate House, head office ... CooperativeSociety , 10 February 2005 ref In addition, the aims state, The Society shall at all times ... Interim Statement of Trading Activities Anglia Regional CooperativeSociety, 21 February ... inherited from the Yorkshire CooperativeSociety, to the Anglia Society. ref https www.literacytrust.org.uk ... Society. ref By transfer of engagements of Kent CooperativeSociety see http www.co operative.co.uk ... 1017.html Usdaw welcomes sale of Co op department stores to Anglia CooperativeSociety Union of Shop ... Anglia CooperativeSociety to sell Westgate Department Stores to Beale Plc Union of Shop .... ref Section IV Capital 17 Rules of the Anglia Regional CooperativeSociety , 10 February 2005 ref ... Regional CooperativeSociety , 10 February 2005 ref Dividend is a share of the profits made by the Society ... Regional CooperativeSociety , 10 February 2005 ref It is paid annually and a warrant placed ... Anglia Regional CooperativeSociety retrieved 16 October 2008 ref A new rule book based on Co ... Anglia Regional CooperativeSociety, 6 October 2009 ref Anglia Regional Cooperative Party operates ... began re branding as The Cooperative Food , whilst also remaining part of the Anglia Society. In 2011 ... ref Preference Since 1999, cooperative chemists in the Society s trading area are operated by National ... retail cooperative was established in 1844 by the Rochdale Pioneers . The Society was founded as Peterborough ... more details
into the national CooperativeWholesaleSociety . Activities Retail & services The RACS ran not just food shops a founding aim of the United Kingdom UK consumer cooperative movement being the provision ... its engagements to the national The Cooperative Group CooperativeWholesaleSociety . Many of the former ...Image Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society Ltd.jpg thumb Central Stores was rebuilt in 1903 The Royal Arsenal CooperativeSociety RACS was a consumer cooperative based in south east London taking its name ... Arsenal Supply Association by 20 workers from the Royal Arsenal , the society renamed itself Royal Arsenal CooperativeSociety in 1872. In the century that followed, the society s activities expanded .... Other London area consumer cooperative societies South Suburban CooperativeSociety London CooperativeSociety Enfield Highway CooperativeSociety Invicta CooperativeSociety Further reading Rita Rhodes An Arsenal for Labour the Royal Arsenal CooperativeSociety and Politics 1896 1996 , Holyoake ... CooperativeSociety, Ltd. 1868 1918 ,Pioneer Press, 1921 Minute books and papers of the Royal Arsenal CooperativeSociety, 1868 1986 , Adam Matthew Pubs., 1994, ISBN B0000EEZ1F Alex. Mcleod & T. Geo. Arnold, The origin and progress of the Royal Arsenal CooperativeSociety , Cooperative Printing Society, 1896 Ron Roffey, The Cooperative Way , Membership Services of South East Co op, 40 ... & savings clubs. As was usual for such cooperative societies, members were paid a dividend in proportion ... the Woodcraft Folk & the Women s Cooperative Guild Cooperative Women s Guild , youth clubs ... Department constructing over a thousand homes. The streets still bear cooperative theme names, such as Owenite ... political cooperative societies. Its motto was Each for All and All for Each , it employed a Political ... to the Cooperative Party as was more usual for such societies. As well as the usual co op dividend ... from a room of a house in Plumstead , by its height circa 1975 the society had outlets across ... more details
plan of a UK retail cooperative was the 1997 failed hostile takeover bid for the The Cooperative Group CooperativeWholesaleSociety by Andrew Regan . A number of the UK s Agricultural supply cooperative ...Infobox cooperative name Musselburgh and Fisherrow CooperativeSociety logo File Musselburgh and fisherrow cooperative logo.png type Former consumer cooperative foundation Start date 1862 03 27 ref ...?Number 32&Suffix RS title Mutuals Public Register, Musselburgh & Fisherrow CooperativeSociety Limited ..., 2006 div Musselburgh and Fisherrow CooperativeSociety Limited M&F Co op was a retail consumer cooperative trading in Musselburgh and Dalkeith , in East Lothian, Scotland . It was founded as a cooperative in 1862 , and, in 2007 , joined the small number of UK cooperative retailers to demutualization ... larger Scotmid , Lothian, Borders & Angus CooperativeSociety Lothian Borders & Angus , and The Co ... CooperativeSociety were the only two that had not merged into a regional or national cooperative ... official website DEFAULTSORT Musselburgh And Fisherrow CoOperativeSociety Category Consumer Co ... publisher Cooperative News date 2005 10 11 accessdate 2008 05 13 quote MEMBERS of the 143 year old Musselburgh & Fisherrow Co op in East Lothian have voted to demutualise the society and turn it into a limited ... Co op in crisis as privatisation bid fails publisher Cooperative News date 2005 11 01 accessdate ... Co op made headlines as one of a very few retail members of the British cooperative movement to demutualization ... of a cooperative is sometimes known as conversion or privatization, and involves the consumer members ref In the UK, cooperative members are sometimes known as shareholders . Their share accounts ... Cooperative News date 2006 03 03 accessdate 2008 05 13 ref 2007 demutualization The board called ... 2008 05 13 publisher Companies House WebCHeck ref Cooperative News reported that M&F Co op ... Principles Democratic control cooperative principle of one member one vote . ref name Co opsUK ... more details
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