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Central England Co-op scoops green standard treble – for the third time

The internationally recognised standards cover areas such as carbon emissions, waste outputs, and water use

Archaeology firm digs out new future as employee-owned business

Guard Archaeology, based in Scotland, has discovered several key sites, including the real Bannockburn battlefield

Co-ops join call for incorporating health into COP25 agenda

Under the Paris Agreement, the right to health is a core principle guiding action on climate…

Canadian farmers back workers in Co-op Refinery lock-out dispute

The workers went on strike in December last year over disagreements about their pension contributions

Co-op Group staff launch equal pay claim

The employees, who are mostly women, argue they are being underpaid compared with warehouse workers, most…

Quebec government to help set up HR co-ops

Enterprises will use the co-op model to pool resources, share HR costs or create a joint…

Blueprint unveiled for a co-operative Greater Manchester

Commission's report is 'a golden opportunity to make devolution work for co-ops in one of the…

The wartime secret of the second largest consumer co-op in the USA

David J Thompson on how piece of co-op history sheds light on the internment of Japanese-American…

Meet … Andrew Seddon, secretary of the Co-op Group NMC

'I saw the co-op sector as something that was again aligned with my personal values and…

Co-op Fortnight will be themed Join a Co-op

Co-ops can take it to social media to post about the Fortnight using the hashtag #JoinACoop

Scotmid breaks record for the world’s largest Burns’ Night supper

926 people helped to break the record, at Edinburgh's Corn Exchange

World Cooperative Monitor looks at top 300 co-ops and their contribution to SDG8

The Monitor collected data for 4,575 co-operatives and mutuals