Scotmid CEO John Brodie follows up MBE with chair of Scottish Retail Consortium

Labour/Co-op MP Mark Hendrick was knighted, with an OBE for Orchard Community Energy’s Stephanie Karpetas and…

Online training course to help the creation of new co-ops in Australia

The course features video lessons and tests and comes from the government-backed Farming Together programme

Central England Co-operative announces multi million investments

The plans will cover food stores and funeral homes across the 16 counties the society operates…

US Senator stirs debate over tax exemption for federal credit unions

Senator Orrin Hatch is challenging the exemption on the grounds that credit unions are moving away…

Full Report: Phone Co-op AGM

Members concerned that high risk strategies at the telco co-op are not being properly managed

Renewable energy powers new partnership in Yorkshire

Cross-sector co-operation sees the launch of a new partnership between Co-operative Energy Saving and Hull &…

Oxfam report on global inequality crisis points to co-operative solutions

The charity highlights the example of Mondragon for promoting job security and equitable pay

How can your organisation market Fairtrade Fortnight 2018?

The Fairtrade Foundation’s campaign team gives tips and hints on how co-ops can best promote this…

How much difference does Fairtrade make – and how can we measure it?

Where Fairtrade-certified producers enjoy higher prices than non-certified farmers, it can be hard to isolate the…

Meet… Bruno Roelants, incoming director general of the International Co-operative Alliance

Mr Roelants talks about his 30 years working for the movement and his priorities for the…

How co-ops can help spread the benefits of automation

'Ownership is the ground where the tug-of-war for the next social contracts is being played. Who…

Future of work: Cincinnati experiments with co-op/union hybrid

A city hit by high unemployment is looking to examples abroad and from US history to…