List of cooperatives

This is a list of notable co-operative enterprises by country. Co-operatives are business organizations owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit.

Australia

• Dairy Farmers is one of the largest and oldest dairy manufacturers in Australia, established in 1900, supplying products to local and international markets such as eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Kirin Holdings Company, Limited of Japan, via its subsidiary National Foods, acquired the company on 27 November 2008.
• Community Healthfulness Cooperative is a cooperative formed by a group of people from Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The cooperative are working to provide a community where people struggling to cope can find support and work to regain their health.

Canada

• Arctic Co-operatives Limited (retail co-operative in the Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Northern Manitoba.
• Blocks Recording Club (record label)
• The Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) is a national cooperative federation for Canadian co-operatives headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.
• Canadian Press (newswire)
• Canadian University Press (newswire for student newspapers)
• The Co-operators, founded in 1945, is a Canadian insurance co-operative owned by 40 members.
• Farmers of North America, Farmers buying co-operative.
• Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), is a co-operative federation, established in 1955, providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada.
• Home Hardware is a privately held Canadian home improvement, construction materials, and furniture retailer. Co-founded in 1964 by Walter Hachborn and headquartered in St. Jacobs, Ontario, the chain is cooperatively owned by over 1000 independently owned member stores.
• Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) is a Canadian consumers' cooperative, which sells outdoor recreation gear and clothing.

Alberta

• Alberta Wheat Pool
• Calgary Co-op (retail co-op)
• United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

British Columbia

• Aaron Webster Housing Cooperative (formerly Cityview Co-op) is a housing cooperative located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• CJLY-FM, radio station in Nelson, British Columbia.
• CFRO-FM, licensed and owned by Vancouver Co-operative Radio, is a non-commercial community radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Coast Salish territory.
• Otter Co-op is a consumers' cooperative in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada.

Manitoba

• Manitoba Cooperative Association (MCA) is the provincial association of cooperative organizations, created by its members to enhance and support the development of a united, growing and influential cooperative movement in Manitoba.

Old Market Autonomous Zone Marketing Co-op (formed in 2010) comprises the cooperatives and activist groups located in the heritage building at 91 Albert St in Winnipeg's Exchange District. It houses the following cooperatives:

• Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse is a political bookstore, vegan cafe and organic grocery store located in The Old Market Autonomous Zone at 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

New Brunswick

• Co-op Atlantic (Moncton)

Ontario

• Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 90 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada.
• Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited is a dairy products co-operative in Canada producing butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, whipped cream and lactose free milk for retail, foodservice, industrial and export markets.
• Guelph Campus Cooperative is located in Guelph, Ontario. It is a student run cooperative offering the University of Guelph community a bookstore and student housing.
• Ontario Co-operative Association or On Co-op is a co-operative association serving co-operatives and co-op member organizations in Ontario, Canada.
• Organic Meadow Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative in Ontario. The cooperative originated in 1989 after local farmers sitting around a kitchen table realized that commercialized farming practices were not sustainable for them.
• Rochdale College, Toronto (defunct)
• Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative
• Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated, also known as WCRI, is a non-profit student housing co-operative located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• Wireless Nomad was a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Canada providing subscriber-owned home and business internet along with free Wi-Fi wireless Internet access the 70+ nodes, making it one of the largest free Wi-Fi networks in the country at the time.

Quebec

• Agropur is a Canadian Agricultural cooperative headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.
• Desjardins Group

Saskatchewan

• CCRL Refinery Complex is an oil refinery spread over 544 acres (2.20 km²) located in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada owned by Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Limited (CCRL) that is in turn owned by Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL).
• CFCR-FM - Community Radio Station (Saskatoon)
• Concentra Financial
• Saskatoon Co-op (Saskatoon)
• Saskatoon Farmers' Market (Saskatoon)
• Sherwood Co-op (Regina)
• Southern Rails Cooperative (railway)

Denmark

• Arla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Århus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.
• FDB (Danish: Fællesforeningen for Danmarks Brugsforeninger), or The Danish Consumers Co-operative Society is a consumer co-operative based in Denmark.

Finland

• Metsäliitto
• OP-Pohjola Group
• S-Group
• Valio

France

• Crédit Agricole
• Enercoop is a French electricity supplier. It is the only one in France in the form of a cooperative.

India

• Aavin Aavin(Tamil:ஆவின்) is the trademark of the Tamilnadu Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation Limited,
• Adarsh Co-operative Bank
• Amul
• Anyonya Co-operative Bank Limited
• Indian Coffee House
• Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited
• KRIBHCO
• Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union
• Mother Dairy
• Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank
• Sant Muktabai Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana
• Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
• Vasudhara Dairy
• Mulkanoor Cooperatives
• Viveka Janani MACTCS Fed Limited

Ireland

• Dublin Food Co-op is a vegetarian food co-operative located in The Liberties area of Dublin, Ireland, which deals primarily in organic wholefood produce.

Israel

• Dan Bus Company
• Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd
• Granot central cooperative
• Kibbutz
• Tnuva Central Cooperative for the Marketing of Agricultural Produce in Israel Ltd.

Japan

• Co-op Kobe (Japanese: コープこうべ), officially known as Consumer Co-operative Kobe, is a Kobe, Japan-based consumers' cooperative. It is the largest retail cooperative in Japan and, with over 1.2 million members, is one of the largest cooperatives in the world.

Nepal

• Guita Saving and Cooperative Ltd., Guitole, Lalitpur-8, Nepal website

New Zealand

A selection of the larger members of the New Zealand Cooperatives Association (see for full list)

• Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational dairy co-operative owned by more than 10,500 New Zealand farmers.
• Foodstuffs (Auckland) Ltd
• Foodstuffs South Island Ltd
• Foodstuffs (Wellington) Ltd
• SBS Bank
• Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
• Westland Cooperative Dairy Company Ltd

Scandinavia

• Coop Norden (Coop Nordic) is a joint Scandinavian purchasing company.

Spain

• The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation is a federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain.

Switzerland

• Migros
• Coop (Switzerland)
• Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland

United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man

Main article: British co-operative movement

• The Co-operative Group is a United Kingdom consumers' co-operative, and, after the acquisition of Somerfield supermarkets, is the world's largest consumer-owned business, with over 4.5 million members and 123,000 employees across all its businesses. Regional and local retail co-operative societies are corporate members of the Group. Includes:
  • Co-operative Bank
• Anglia Regional Co-operative Society is the fifth largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom.
• Baywind Energy Co-operative
• Bristol Wood Recycling Project
• Channel Islands Co-operative Society
• Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society
• Colchester and East Essex Co-operative Society
• Co-operative Press
• East of England Co-operative Society
• Heart of England Co-operative Society
• Highburton Co-operative Society
• Ilkeston Co-operative Society
• John Lewis Partnership (employee-owned business, not formal co-op)
• Lincolnshire Co-operative Society
• Magpie Recycling
• Midcounties Co-operative
• Midlands Co-operative Society
• New Internationalist
• Penrith Co-operative Society
• People's Press Printing Society
• Phone Co-op
• Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society
• Radstock Co-operative Society
• Ruskin House
• Scottish Midland Co-operative Society
• Seeds for Change Lancaster[1]
• Seeds for Change Oxford Collective[2]
• Shared Interest
• Shepley Co-operative Society
• Southern Co-operatives
• Suma Wholefoods (Triangle Wholefoods Collective Ltd)
• Swann Morton worker co-op
• Veggies of Nottingham
• Wooldale Co-operative Society

Football and rugby union supporters' trusts are incorporated as co-operatives of supporters. Several own the football club outright and many hold equity in the club.

United States

• Ace Hardware is a hardware cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. Ace Hardware was founded in 1924 by Richard Hesse, E. Gunnard Lindquist, Frank Burke and Oscar Fisher in Chicago, Illinois.
• Affiliated Foods Inc.
• Affiliated Foods Midwest Co-op Inc.
• Affiliated Foods Southwest
• AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
• Agribank, FCB
• Ant Hill Cooperative
• Ashland Food Co-op
• Associated Food Stores
• Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc
• Associated Grocers of the South, Inc.
• Associated Grocers, Inc.
• Associated Press
• Associated Wholesale Grocers
• Associated Wholesalers, Inc.
• Audubon Mutual Housing Corporation
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative
• Black Star Co-op A brewpub located in Austin, TX
• Blue Diamond Growers
• Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
• Cabot Creamery, Vermont-based dairy marketing
• Central Grocers Cooperative
• Certified Grocers Midwest
• Choptank Electric Cooperative
• CHS Inc.
  • CoBank
• Cooperative Development Foundation
• Dairy Farmers of America
• Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
• Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc.
• Do It Best
• Equal Exchange
• Farm Credit Bank of Texas
• First Tech Credit Union
• Florida's Natural Growers (formerly Citrus World Inc.)
• Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD)
• George Street Co-op
• Great River Energy
• Greenbelt Homes, Inc.
• Greenbelt News Review
• Group Health Cooperative
• GROWMARK, Inc.
• Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI)
• Land O'Lakes
• Madison Community Co-op
• Mariposa Food Co-op
• MFA Incorporated
• Michigan State University Student Housing Cooperative
• National Cooperative Bank (now NCB)
• National Grape Cooperative Association, Inc.
• National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation
• Navy Federal Credit Union
• New Deal Cafe
• New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union
• Nebraska Rural Radio Association
• NonProfits' United
• Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
• Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
• Ocean Spray (cooperative)
• Oglethorpe Power Corporation
• Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
• Park Slope Food Coop
• Pentagon Federal Credit Union
• People's Food Co-op (Portland)
• Piggly Wiggly Alabama
• Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oklahoma)
• Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oregon)
• R.E.I. (Recreational Equipment Inc.)
• Rapidan Camps
• Riceland Foods
• Scary Cow Productions
• Snake River Sugar Company
• Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
• Southern States Cooperative
• Sunkist Growers, Inc.
• Tennessee Farmers Cooperative
• The Union Credit Union
• Tillamook County Creamery Association
• TOPCO Associates
• True Value Corporation
• U.S. AgBank, FCB
• U.S. Central Credit Union
• Unified Western Grocers
• USA Federal Credit Union (San Diego, Ca)
• United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank)
• Universal Cooperatives
• University Students Cooperative Association
• URM Stores
• VHA, Inc.
• Wakefern Food (ShopRite)
• Weaver's Way Co-op
• Weaver Street Market
• Wedge Community Co-op
• Western Family Holding Company
• Western Sugar Cooperative
• WestFarm Foods
• Wheatsville Co-op
• Winfield Park Mutual Housing Corporation
• WSIPC

See also

• List of co-operative federations
• List of employee-owned companies
• List of food cooperatives
• List of retailers' cooperatives
• List of worker cooperatives
• List of utility cooperatives