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. For a list of Co-operative Federations, please see List of co-operative federations.
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.
CBH Group and Wesfarmers Limited both started as co-operative groups in Western Australia in the early twentieth century.
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 43 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 Wheat Pool
Calgary Co-op (retail co-op)
United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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.
EcoReality Sustainable Land Use and Education Cooperative on Saltspring Island is developing an ecovillage based on sustainable agriculture.
Otter Co-op is a consumers' cooperative in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada.
Manitoba Co-op Association - Coop Directory
Co-op Atlantic (Moncton)
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 company 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.
Agropur is a Canadian Agricultural cooperative headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.
Desjardins Group
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)
United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) has over 120,000 members and with 2007 revenues of over $1.8 billion, UFA is ranked as the 37th largest business in Alberta by revenue according to Alberta Venture magazine. [1]
Arla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Aarhus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.
Danish Crown AmbA is Denmark's largest meat packer cooperative based in Aarhus, Denmark. It processes meat from pig and cattle, but not from chicken and other poultry. It is the world's largest exporter of pig meat products with subsidiaries in other countries.
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
Crédit Agricole
Enercoop is a French electricity supplier. It is the only one in France in the form of a cooperative.
Aavin Aavin(Tamil:ஆவின்) is the trademark of the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation Limited,
Adarsh Co-operative Bank
Amul is trademark of gujarat co-opreatives of milk product and considered as the biggest co-opreatives of India today
Anyonya Co-operative Bank Limited
Horticultural Producers' Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society
Indian Coffee House
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited
Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union
Karnataka Milk Federation(KMF)
Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (KCMMF)
KRIBHCO
Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank
Sant Muktabai Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
Vasudhara Dairy
Sitajakhala Dugdha Utpadak Samabai Samiti Assam, in the District of Morigaon
Bhesan Sahakari Mandali Ltd. Dist. Junagadh, Gujarat
The Eastern Railway Employees' Co-operative Bank Ltd.
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO).
Survey of India Credit Co-operative Society Ltd.West Bengal Kolkata 700016
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.
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.
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.
Mwalimu Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited, the largest savings and credit cooperative society (Sacco), in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community.
United Nations Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited (UN Sacco Ltd).
New Zealand
Electricity Ashburton
Farmers' Mutual Group
Fonterra Co-operative Group
Foodstuffs (Auckland) Cooperative
Foodstuffs South Island Cooperative
Foodstuffs (Wellington) Cooperative
Mitre 10
Nelson Building Society
Paper Plus Group
Silver Fern Farms
SBS Bank
Southern Cross Medical Care Society
Tatua Cooperative Dairy Company
The Co-operative Bank
Westland Cooperative Dairy Company
Lighthouse Cooperative, a multi-purpose cooperative in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines established in 1998.
Tagum Cooperative- a cooperative from Tagum City with 9 Branches and 1 Business Center in Region XI
Excellent People's Multi Purpose Cooperative (EPMPC), a multi-purpose cooperative in Taguig City, Philippines established in 2004. Has one business center in Davao and another one in Cebu.
Kailian Multipurpose Cooperative, a cooperative in Ilocos Sur, Philippines established in 2000 with 1 branch in Candon City, Ilocos Sur.
Scandinavia
Coop Norden (Coop Nordic) is a joint Scandinavian purchasing company.
The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation is a federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain.
Switzerland
Migros
Coop (Switzerland)
Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland
Uganda
Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (WASACCO)
United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man
The Co-operative Bank
Baywind Energy Co-operative
Brighton Energy Co-operative
Co-operative Press
Daily Bread Co-operative
Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative
Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative
Highburton Co-operative Society
Ilkeston Co-operative Society
John Lewis Partnership (employee-owned business, not formal co-op)
London Capital Credit Union
Magpie Recycling
New Internationalist
The New Leaf Cooperative
People's Press Printing Society
The Phone Co-op
Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society
Revolver Co-operative
Ruskin House
Shared Interest
Suma Wholefoods (Triangle Wholefoods Collective Ltd)
Swann Morton worker co-op
The Co-operative Group has 22 independent consumer co-operatives as corporate members or customer owners, including:
Central England Co-operative
Channel Islands Co-operative Society
Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society
East of England Co-operative Society
Heart of England Co-operative Society
Lincolnshire Co-operative
The Midcounties Co-operative
Penrith Co-operative Society
Radstock Co-operative Society
Scottish Midland Co-operative Society
Southern Co-operative
Wooldale Co-operative Society
Unicorn Grocery
Veggies of Nottingham
Westmill Solar Co-operative
Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative
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.
Ace Hardware, Oak Brook, Illinois
Affiliated Foods Inc.
Affiliated Foods Midwest Co-op Inc.
Affiliated Foods Southwest
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
Agribank, FCB
Amherst Community Co-Op
Ant Hill Cooperative
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
Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Black Star Co-op A brewpub located in Austin, TX
Blue Diamond Growers
Bob's Red Mill
Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
Cabot Creamery, Vermont-based dairy marketing
Carpet One, Coop division beneath the CCA Global Partner umbrella
Central Grocers Cooperative
Certified Grocers Midwest
Choptank Electric Cooperative
CHS Inc.
CoBank
Co-operative Central Exchange
Cooperative Development Foundation
Dairy Farmers of America
Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms
Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc.
Do It Best
Echo Adventure Cooperative
Equal Exchange
Farm Credit Bank of Texas
First Tech Credit Union
Florida's Natural Growers (formerly Citrus World Inc.)
Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD)
Full Sail Brewing Company
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
MFA Incorporated
Michigan State University Student Housing Cooperative
Namaste Solar
National Cooperative Bank (now NCB)
National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)
National Grape Cooperative Association, Inc.
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation
Navy Federal Credit Union
New Deal Cafe
New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union
New Whalom Cooperative
Nebraska Rural Radio Association
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)
Princeton Cooperative
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
URM Stores
VHA, Inc.
Wakefern Food (ShopRite)
Weaver's Way Co-op
Weaver Street Market
Wedge Community Co-op
Welch's (Welch Foods Inc.)
Western Family Holding Company
Western Sugar Cooperative
WestFarm Foods
Wheatsville Co-op
Whole Foods Co-op
Winfield Park Mutual Housing Corporation
WSIPC
