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Cooperatives (also called co-ops) are a form of business ownership that is practiced all over the world. The most common types of cooperatives are worker-owned and consumer-owned. Most cooperatives adhere to seven principles:
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- Allen Park Chamber of Commerce - Allen Park local co-operative chamber.
- Alpha Communication Ltd - A workers' co-operative providing graphic design, exhibition stand design and 3rd sector communications services in the North East of England.
- Arizona Cooperatives - Principles, values define cooperative operations.
- Bicycle Doctor - Worker co-op providing cycle and bike equipment in Manchester, UK. Includes bicycle FAQ, online catalog, and links to bicycle groups in England.
- Catalyst Collective Ltd - Helps to set up housing co-operatives, worker co-operatives and community co-operatives, including registration as limited companies or industrial and provident societies.
- CCA - Canadian co-operative association.
- Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives - COPAC joins businesses of the cooperative movement with the United Nations, and farmers' and workers' organizations. General info on COPAC and its member organizations.
- Co-op Group - The world's largest co-operative society, with activity in a number of retail sectors, and subsidiaries in insurance and financial services.
- Cooperative Hall of Fame - Honors those distinguished individuals whose contributions to cooperative business have been genuinely heroic. Includes biographies of inductees and general information on the organization.
- Co-operative News - An independent publication for the UK co-operative sector.
- Cooperative Procurven - Provide procurement and supply services, under technical and economical conditions to other organizations. Also represents as agents other foreign corporations or Cooperatives in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Cooperative Promotion Department - Information about cooperatives and theirs products in Thailand.
- Co-operatives UK - Central organisation for the co-operative movement in the UK. Main purpose is to develop and extend co-operative enterprise.
- Co-opNet - Electronic mailing list run by the Southampton Co-op Network to promote cooperatives. The emphasis is on UK co-ops, particularly worker co-ops. Includes links to list archives.
- Discount Heating Oil - Pilgrim Oil Co-Op is an oil buying co-operative. Savings consumers hundreds of dollars per year on home heating oil.
- Ditas - Danish buying group for do-it-yourself products. Corporate profile and financials, map of members, and related links provided.
- EK Servicegroup - Retail cooperative for independent, medium-sized retail companies within Europe in the business segments living, comfort, hobby, family and fashion.
- Environmental Services Co-operative - Co-operative created by environment scientists whose main aims are to promote and tackle environmental issues in various sectors.
- European Community of Consumer Cooperatives - General information on European cooperatives; members site includes forum, message boards, articles, and coop chat.
- Grassroots Economic Organizing - A newsletter about worker co-ops, economic democracy and sustainable, stakeholder-owned, democratically managed businesses in the US and worldwide.
- HEAT USA - A heating oil co-operative.
- Humetasys Consumer-Purchasing Cooperative - Product line is geared toward a mission of promoting ‘basic home systems.'
- ILO Cooperative Branch - The Cooperative Branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The ILO is based in Geneva and is part of the UN system.
- Independent Boat Builders, Inc. - Purchasing cooperative for boat manufacturers. Maintains a list of sponsored suppliers, membership required for access.
- International Co-operative Alliance - Information about co-operatives worldwide from the ICA, their apex organization.
- Iowa Institute for Cooperatives - Legislative Action, education & training business development assistance from this state organization.
- Ipswich and Norwich Co-operative Society - Independent regional co-operative society at Suffolk, Norfolk and North East Essex. Businesses: foodstores, department Stores, dairy.
- Kansas Cooperative Council - Trade association for cooperatives in Kansas, with information on benefits and programs.
- Klien Karoo Co-operative - Produces ostrich leather, ostrich feathers and ostrich meat, as well as providing multiplication, distribution and marketing of quality pasture and vegetable seed.
- Magpie Recycling Ltd - Brighton's Favourite Recycling Cooperative - A brighton-based workers cooperative specialising in Commercial, Household & Event Recycling / Waste Management.
- The Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative, LLC - Cooperative of private landowners, who stand for sustainable forestry and the preservation of working forest landscapes in Western Massachusetts.
- 1|20 Media - Workers' co-operative providing 3D previsualization and multimedia services.
- Morris County NJ Business Directory Co-op - Interactive Advertising E-Tool. Consolidating Morris County Business and Business Organizations for easy access and Online Advertising.
- NASCO - North American Students of Cooperation.
- National Cooperative Business Association - Contains general information on American cooperative businesses, a co-op events calendar, and NCBA membership information.
- National Cooperative Refinery Association - Inter-regional petroleum cooperative owned by three regional farm supply cooperatives in the north central United States.
- National Farmers Union - Offers farm products online and provides e-commerce resources to farmers and co-ops.
- North American Students of Cooperation - Federation of campus-based housing and retail cooperatives in Canada and the U.S.
- The Open Co-op - Community of individuals and organisations committed to creating a collaborative, sustainable economy.
- Orion Counselling and Research Co-operative - Handbooks about managing cooperatives, and links to worldwide cooperatives. In English, French and Spanish.
- Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op - A consumer co-op with activities in food, motor and travel retail, funeral services and childcare.
- Paperback - Supplying recycled graphic and office papers.
- The Phone Co-op - The Phone Co-op is the UK's only co-operatively-owned telephone and internet servies provider.
- Radical Routes - A network of co-ops: mainly of housing co-ops of various sizes.
- SAOS Ltd - Develops co-operations and joint ventures among farmers, growers and rural businesses, and within food and drink supply chains. Owned and governed by 80 member co-ops.
- Think Electric - A worker owned and operated electrical contractor in Eugene, Oregon dedicated to providing living wage union jobs wile building a sustainable future.
- Tuscarora Organic Growers Cooperative - Pennsylvania Family Farms Wholesale Distributors of Fresh Organic Vegetables in Washington DC and State College PA.
- UK Co-op Online Directory - A guide to the co-op movement and a directory of UK co-ops, sorted by field of work.
- United Norwest Co-operatives - A UK consumer co-operative active in northwestern England, offering services and products as diverse as food, furniture, travel and funerals.
- Wil-Key International - Provides geomembrane seaming equipment and seam testing equipment produced in-house. Also offers containment liner job.
- Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives - Minnesota Association of Cooperatives - An alliance provides governmental affairs, public relations, education and technical services.
- Wye Fruit Ltd - Fruit storage and packing co-operative. Based in Bromyard Road, Ledbury, Herefordshire.
- Yurmash Universal - Selection, delivery and repair of ship diesel engines, diesel engines - generators, etc. the equipment. Guarantee and postguarantee service.
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