List of cooperatives explained

This is a list of notable co-operative enterprises by country. Co-operatives are business organizations owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit.^[1] For a list of Co-operative Federations, please see List of co-operative federations.

Africa

• Mwalimu Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited, the largest savings and credit cooperative society (Sacco), in Kenya
• Unaitas Sacco Society Limited, established 1993
• United Nations Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited (UN Sacco Ltd)^[2]

• Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (WASACCO)

Asia

India

• Amul
• Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO)
• Southern Green Farming And Marketing Multi State cooperative society (Farmfed)

• 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.

• Lighthouse Cooperative, a multi-purpose cooperative in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines established in 1998.
• Tagum Cooperative- a cooperative from Tagum City with 9 Branches and 1 Business Center in Region XI

• NTUC Enterprise is a new holding co-operative set up by NTUC, Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF) and unions affiliated to both NTUC and SLF. NTUC Enterprise institutionalises the strategic partnership between NTUC, SLF and the unions to enable the NTUC Social Enterprises to do even more for working families.^[3]

Europe

• Coop amba, is a consumer co-operative based in Denmark. Coop amba also includes Coop Bank and Coop Invest, two financial subsidiaries.

• Metsäliitto
• OP-Pohjola Group
• S-Group
• Valio

• Crédit Agricole
• Enercoop is a French electricity supplier. It is the only one in France in the form of a cooperative.

• The Edeka Group, the largest German supermarket corporation, consists of several co-operatives of independent supermarkets operating under the umbrella organisation Edeka Zentrale AG & Co KG, with headquarters in Hamburg.

• Coop, a system of Italian consumers' cooperatives which operates the largest supermarket chain in Italy. Its headquarters are located in Casalecchio di Reno, Province of Bologna.

• Dublin Food Co-op is a vegetarian food co-operative located in The Liberties area of Dublin, Ireland, which deals primarily in organic wholefood produce.
• Dairygold Co-Operative Society Limited is an Irish dairy co-operative based in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland. It is Ireland's second largest dairy co-operative.
• Ornua from the Irish "Ór Nua" meaning "new gold" (known as The Irish Dairy Board from 1961 to 2015) is an Irish Statutory agricultural cooperative, which markets and sells dairy products on behalf of its members: Irish dairy processors and Irish dairy farmers. The co-operative is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products.

• Społem is a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores founded in 1868.

• Arla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Aarhus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.
• Coop Norden (Coop Nordic) was a joint Scandinavian purchasing company that in 2007 dissolved and devolved to the constituent national cooperatives.^[4]
• Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem, women's food cooperative, founded in Sweden 1905.

• Mondragón Cooperative Corporation is a federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain
  • Eroski, a Spanish supermarket chain with nearly 1,000 outlets spread across Spain, within the Mondragón Corporation group.

• Migros
• Coop (Switzerland)

See main article: British co-operative movement.

• Baywind Energy Co-operative
• Brighton Energy Co-operative
• Co-operative Press
• Daily Bread Co-operative
• Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative
• Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative
• Highburton Co-operative Society
• Ilkeston Co-operative Society
• Ipswich Industrial Co-operative Society formed 1868 now merged
• John Lewis Partnership (employee-owned business, not formal co-op)
• London Capital Credit Union
• New Internationalist
• The New Leaf Cooperative
• People's Press Printing Society
• The Phone Co-op
• Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society
• Revolver Co-operative
• Ruskin House
• Shared Interest
• Suma Wholefoods (Triangle Wholefoods Collective Ltd)^[5]
• Swann Morton worker co-op

• The Co-operative Group has 22 independent consumer co-operatives as corporate members or customer owners, including:
  • Central England Co-operative
    • • Channel Islands Co-operative Society Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society
  • East of England Co-operative Society
  • Heart of England Co-operative Society
    • • • • Lincolnshire Co-operative The Midcounties Co-operative Penrith Co-operative Society
          • Radstock Co-operative Society Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Southern Co-operative

• Unicorn Grocery
• Veggies of Nottingham
• Westmill Solar Co-operative
• Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative

Football and rugby union supporters' trusts are incorporated as co-operatives of supporters. Several own the football club outright and many hold equity in the club.

North America

• Los Horcones, a Mexican producer cooperative and Walden Two (an experimental community)
• UBPC, a group of cooperatives all around Cuba that’s mostly used for agriculture, similar to a CPA
• CPA, a group of cooperatives all around Cuba that’s mostly used for agriculture, similar to a UBPC

• Arctic Co-operatives Limited (retail co-operative in the Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Northern Manitoba.
• Blocks Recording Club (record label)
• Canadian Press (newswire)
• Canadian University Press (newswire for student newspapers)
• The Co-operators, founded in 1945, is a Canadian insurance co-operative owned by 43 members.
• Farmers of North America, Farmers buying co-operative.
• Home Hardware is a privately held Canadian home improvement, construction materials, and furniture retailer. Co-founded in 1964 by Walter Hachborn and headquartered in St. Jacobs, Ontario, the chain is cooperatively owned by over 1000 independently owned member stores.
• Stocksy United (Stocksy) is a Canadian multi-stakeholder platform cooperative, selling stock photos and videos on behalf of its international membership of 1500+ artist contributors.

• Alberta Wheat Pool
• 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.

• Aaron Webster Housing Cooperative (formerly Cityview Co-op) is a housing cooperative located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• CJLY-FM, radio station in Nelson, British Columbia.
• CFRO-FM, licensed and owned by Vancouver Co-operative Radio, is a non-commercial community radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Coast Salish territory.
• Otter Co-op is a consumers' cooperative in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada.
• First West Credit Union
• VanCity Credit Union

• Red River Co-op (Winnipeg)

• Co-op Atlantic (Moncton)^[6]

• Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 90 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada.
• Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited is a dairy products company in Canada producing butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, whipped cream and lactose free milk for retail, foodservice, industrial and export markets.
• Organic Meadow Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative in Ontario. The cooperative originated in 1989 after local farmers sitting around a kitchen table realized that commercialized farming practices were not sustainable for them.
• Rochdale College, Toronto (defunct)
• St-Albert Cheese Co-operative
• Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op
• Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative^[7]
• Wireless Nomad was a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada providing subscriber-owned home and business internet along with free Wi-Fi wireless Internet access the 70+ nodes, making it one of the largest free Wi-Fi networks in the country at the time.

• Agropur is a Canadian Agricultural cooperative headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.
• Desjardins Group

• Access Communications is a telecommunication co-operative
• CCRL Refinery Complex is an oil refinery spread over 544acres located in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada owned by Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Limited (CCRL) that is in turn owned by Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL).
• CFCR-FM – Community Radio Station (Saskatoon)
• Innovation Credit Union
• Lake Country Co-op (Prince Albert)
• Saskatoon Co-op (Saskatoon)
• Saskatoon Farmers' Market (Saskatoon)
• Sherwood Co-op (Regina)
• Southern Rails Cooperative (railway)

• 21st Street Co-op, student housing co-operative in Austin, Texas
• Ace Hardware, Oak Brook, Illinois
• Affiliated Foods Midwest Co-op Inc.
• Affiliated Foods Southwest
• AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
• AgriBank
• Ant Hill Cooperative
• Arizmendi Bakery, San Francisco, California
• Associated Food Stores
• Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc
• Associated Grocers of the South, Inc.
• Associated Grocers, Inc.
• Associated Press
• Associated Wholesale Grocers
• Associated Wholesalers, Inc.
• Audubon Mutual Housing Corporation
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative
• Berkeley Student Cooperative
• Black Star Co-op A brewpub located in Austin, TX
• Blood Centers of America is the largest blood supply network in the U.S
• Blue Diamond Growers
• Bob's Red Mill
• Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
• Cabot Creamery, Vermont-based dairy marketing
• CCA Global Partners
• Central Grocers Cooperative
• Certified Grocers Midwest
• Choptank Electric Cooperative
• CHS Inc.
• Coastal Federal Credit Union
• CoBank
• Co-operative Central Exchange
• Cooperative Development Foundation
• Dairy Farmers of America
• Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
• Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms
• Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc.
• Do It Best
• Equal Exchange
• Farm Credit Bank of Texas
• First Tech Credit Union
• Florida's Natural Growers (formerly Citrus World Inc.)
• Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD)
• Freedom Farm Cooperative, an agricultural cooperative founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967
• Full Sail Brewing Company
• George Street Co-op
• Great River Energy
• Greenbelt Homes, Inc.^[8]
• Greenbelt News Review^[9]
• Group Health Cooperative
• GROWMARK, Inc.
• Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
• Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI)^[10]
• Land O'Lakes
• Madison Community Co-op
• MFA Incorporated
• Michigan State University Student Housing Cooperative
• National Cooperative Bank (now NCB)
• National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)
• National Grape Cooperative Association, Inc.
• National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation^[11]
• Navy Federal Credit Union
• New Deal Cafe^[12]
• New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union^[13]
• Nebraska Rural Radio Association
• Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
• Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
• Ocean Spray (cooperative)
• Oglethorpe Power Corporation
• Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
• Park Slope Food Coop
• Pentagon Federal Credit Union
• People's Food Co-op (Portland)
• Piggly Wiggly Alabama
• Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oklahoma)
• Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oregon)
• Princeton Cooperative
• R.E.I. (Recreational Equipment Inc.)^[14]
• Rapidan Camps^[15]
• Riceland Foods
• Scary Cow Productions
• Snake River Sugar Company
• Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
• Southern States Cooperative
• Sunkist Growers, Inc.
• Tennessee Farmers Cooperative
• The Union Credit Union^[16]
• Tillamook County Creamery Association
• Topco Associates
• True Value Corporation
• U.S. AgBank, FCB
• U.S. Central Credit Union
• Unified Western Grocers
• USA Federal Credit Union (San Diego, Ca)^[17]
• United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank)
• Universal Cooperatives
• URM Stores
• VHA, Inc.
• Wakefern Food Corporation
• Weaver's Way Co-op
• Weaver Street Market
• Wedge Community Co-op
• Welch's (Welch Foods Inc.)
• Western Family Holding Company
• Western Sugar Cooperative
• WestFarm Foods
• Wheatsville Co-op
• Whole Foods Co-op
• Winfield Park Mutual Housing Corporation
• WSIPC

Oceania

Australia

• Dairy Farmers is one of the largest and oldest dairy manufacturers in Australia, established in 1900, supplying products to local and international markets such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Kirin Holdings Company, Limited of Japan, via its subsidiary National Foods, acquired the company on 27 November 2008.^{[18] [19]} The Co-op later being listed up for sale in 2019 and later sold on January 25, 2021 to the wholly owned Australian company Bega Cheese.^[20]
• CBH Group and Wesfarmers both started as co-operative groups in Western Australia in the early twentieth century.

• Electricity Ashburton
• Farmers' Mutual Group
  • Fonterra Co-operative Group Foodstuffs (Auckland) Cooperative
• Foodstuffs South Island Cooperative
• Foodstuffs (Wellington) Cooperative
• Mitre 10
• Nelson Building Society
• Paper Plus Group
• Silver Fern Farms
• SBS Bank
• Southern Cross Medical Care Society
• Tatua Cooperative Dairy Company
• The Co-operative Bank
• Westland Cooperative Dairy Company

See also

• List of co-operative federations
• List of employee-owned companies
• List of energy cooperatives
• List of food cooperatives
• List of retailers' cooperatives
• List of worker cooperatives
• List of utility cooperatives

Notes and References

1. Book: O'Sullivan, Arthur. Steven M. Sheffrin . Economics: Principles in action. Pearson Prentice Hall. 2003. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. 0-13-063085-3.
2. Web site: Home. unsacco.org. 13 February 2019.
3. Web site: NTUC Enterprise Co-operative Ltd . 2023-08-24 . www.ntuc.org.sg . en.
4. Web site: Cooperatives Europe – Coop Norden focuses its pan-Nordic operations on purchasing. https://web.archive.org/web/20110718162136/http://www.coopseurope.coop/spip.php?article294. dead. 18 July 2011. 18 July 2011. 13 February 2019.
5. Web site: Welcome. Suma. Suma Wholefoods. 13 February 2019.
6. Web site: Home . coopatlantic.ca.
7. Web site: TREC – Renewable Energy & Social Finance -. www.trec.on.ca. 13 February 2019.
8. Web site: Greenbelt Homes Inc – A community for people who value community. www.ghi.coop. 13 February 2019.
9. Web site: Home . greenbeltnewsreview.com.
10. Web site: Inter-Cooperative Council at Ann Arbor. Inter-Cooperative Council at Ann Arbor. 13 February 2019.
11. Web site: CFC Home. www.nrucfc.coop. 13 February 2019.
12. Web site: New Deal Cafe in Greenbelt, MD. New Deal Cafe. 13 February 2019.
13. Web site: Nusenda Credit Union – Personal & Business Checking, Car Loans, Mortgages. www.nusenda.org. 13 February 2019.
14. Web site: REI Co-op: Outdoor Clothing, Gear and Footwear from Top Brands. REI. REI. 13 February 2019.
15. Web site: Rapidan Camps. www.rapidancamps.org. 13 February 2019.
16. Web site: The Credit Union – Financial Guide. 13 February 2019.
17. Web site: USA Federal Credit Union . 2009-03-05 . dead . http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20040113053907/http://www.usafedcu.org/ . 2004-01-13 .
18. Web site: Japanese firm readies bid for Dairy Farmers . 18 April 2008 . . 2008-08-26 .
19. National Foods to acquire Dairy Farmers for $910 million . Dairy Farmers Limited . 2008-08-25 . 2008-09-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080828024024/http://www.dairyfarmers.com.au/df/ournews/latestnews/2008/08/25/national-foods-to-acquire-dairy-farmers-for--910-million . 2008-08-28 .
20. Web site: Bega Cheese proud new owner of Dairy Farmers, Yoplait and more. 25 January 2021.