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23 May '12

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Global NewsMSCB: Journey begins from sugar to IT

Ever since the RBI has given Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank a clean bill of health, the bank is bubbling with new ideas and plans. It is so excited that it has decided to venture into wholly new businesses. It feels its work with sugar and spinning mills is over. It has maxed out on this sector. MSCB has begun preparing itself for a large-scale diversification into corporate financing, information technology, manufacturing and engineering, infrastructure and energy. MSCB officials say even ...

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AustraliaCelebrating the International Year of Cooperatives with a stamp and a coin

Australia is celebrating the International Year of Cooperatives by issuing a stamp and a coin. The commemorative stamp was officially launched at a ceremony held recently in Melbourne, which was attended by Dame Pauline Green, the President of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA). The stamp sheets come with an envelope and mailer as well as a postcard featuring the nine cooperative sectors active in Australia: manufacturing, worker, art and handicrafts, retail, real estate, energy, ...

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Global NewsVarious cooperative sectors covered in Summit workshops

Leaders from the various cooperative sectors will have the unique opportunity to discuss issues and forge strategic alliances thanks to six sector-based workshops to be held during the Summit. These six workshops, presented under the unifying theme of “Doing business our way - Winning strategies for doing business differently,” will cover the following sectors: - Agriculture and agri-food - Production (forestry, fishing, manufacturing, energy) - Public services (health, childcare, homecare, ...

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United StatesThe Rise and Fall of Burley Design Cooperative

Joel Schoening has a thorough retrospective on the demutualized business in the Oregon Historical Quarterly's Fall 2010 edition.  "Over the next twenty years, the cooperative ...

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The Senedd, the Welsh National Assembly building

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United KingdomCo-operatives contribute £1 billion to Welsh economy

Co-operatives in Wales generate more than £1 billion in income a year and offer a tried and tested way of developing a more sustainable economy while tackling unemployment ...

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Minister Sithembiso Nyoni. Picture: World Economic Forum

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Global NewsZimbabwe: Country-wide campaign will show success of cooperatives

Zimbabwe sees the cooperative movement and the organized and formalized small and medium sector as pivotal to inclusive economic growth and as tools for poverty reductions.

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Global NewsKribhco AGM: Vibrant democracy at play!

Soon after the appearance of a report in Indian cooperative .com that Annual General body meeting in cooperatives has reduced democracy to a farce, this correspondent was invited angrily by the Vice-Chairman Chandra Pal Singh Yadav to participate in AGM of Kribhco and report the truth. To the utter surprise of this reporter, the AGM was conducted in “no hold barred spirit” with participants- one after another expressing themselves freely for and against the functioning of Kribhco.

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Global NewsKribhco posts profit of Rs. 230.26 crore

Kribhco , a premier fertiliser producing farmers cooperative society has earned a pre tax profit of  Rs. 230.26 crore during the financial year 2010-11. The annual accounts have been approved by the Society in its 31st Annual General Body Meeting held on 22nd September,2011 presided over by Sh. V. R. Patel, Chairman, Kribhco and attended by Directors and 516 delegates of member cooperatives from different parts of the country at the NCUI auditorium, New Delhi. The Society has declared dividend ...

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Global NewsBuilding a Better World: A Co-op Month Film Series

Each October, cooperatives across the United States celebrate the cooperativ

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Global NewsCo-ops Give Away One Million CFLs - ECT.coop

Free giveaways of energy-saving light bulbs by co-ops in Indiana and Illinois recently hit the one million mark, resulting in substantial reductions in electric consumption. The 18 member co-ops of G&T Hoosier Energy, Bloomington, Ind., distributed the compact fluorescent bulbs to consumers over a two-and-a-half year period. The CFL campaigns took place in the co-ops’ service areas in central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.

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