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Co-op Group appoints Alex Dower as Retail MD

He brings with him 30+ years of experience in retail, consumer goods and hospitality

Icmif highlights tech and AI updates at insurance mutuals

Denmark's GF Forsikring and LB Forsikring, France's Maif and the USA's Lititz Mutual have announced partnerships and investments

Co-op Academies Trust pledges ‘Fair Deal’ on inclusive education

'We know schools cannot solve child poverty, but we do have power to remove some of…

Scotmid raises record £474,500 for Alzheimer’s charity partnership

'This total has been built through thousands of individual acts of support'

Lottery funding to boost resilience of Scotland’s community-owned shops

Plunkett UK has been awarded £20,000 for its work with community-owned shops

Co-op Group begins to distribute £2.4m green employment fund

The scheme also comes as figures show six in ten young people don’t understand green jobs

T-Level students take up apprenticeships with Lincolnshire Co-op

The society has worked with local academies to offer students nine weeks of work experience at…

Canadian co-op leaders gather to promote the sector in parliament

'The opportunity is not to invent something new. It is to recognise, support, and scale what…

Kenyan High Court strikes out bid to liquidate saccos apex Kuscco

One of the saccos facing losses from the collapse had brought a petition to liquidate the…

Federation of Southern Cooperatives gets ready for CoopEcon event

Workshops will look at ways to build sustainable co-operative economies, looking at finance, management and governance

Ecology Building Society launches ‘innovative’ savings product

'Account holders can benefit from a competitive interest rate while also having immediate access to their…

Australian housing co-ops draw lessons from home and abroad at national summit

'There is a real opportunity for rental housing co-ops to move from the margins to the…