10 Facts About Cooperative

Cooperative is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".

Cooperative businesses are typically more productive and economically resilient than many other forms of enterprise, with twice the number of co-operatives surviving their first five years compared with other business ownership models according to data from United Kingdom.

Cooperative communities were set up in Glasgow, Indiana and Hampshire, although ultimately unsuccessful.

The International Cooperative Alliance was founded in London, England on 19 August 1895 during the 1st Cooperative Congress.

Cooperative had started his career in chemistry in Valio, a cooperative of dairy farmers in which he headed the research department for 50 years and where all his major inventions were first put to practice.

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Cooperative movement has been fueled globally by ideas of economic democracy.

Cooperative is a legal entity owned and democratically controlled by its members.

Cooperative banks were over-represented in lending to small and medium-sized businesses in all of the 10 countries included in the report.

Cooperative brings together all the participants in the food chain from farm to fork, represented by six different categories of members:.

Less seriously, in Murder in the Collective, Barbara Wilson sets a murder mystery among radical printing collectives in Seattle, while Frances Madeson's 2007 comic novel Cooperative Village is set in the eponymous housing co-operative in New York.