Clydebank Co-operative Society

Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited
Company typeConsumer Co-operative
IndustryRetailing
Funerals
Post offices
Founded1881 (1881)
Headquarters
Clydebank
,
Scotland, UK
Area served
Clydebank
Revenue£14.1 million (FY 2022/23)
Websitewww.realco-op.co.uk

The Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited is the smallest consumers' co-operative in Scotland, based in the town of Clydebank near Glasgow. Along with Scotmid and The Co-operative Group, it is one of three consumer co-operative retail societies in Scotland, and the only one not merged into a regional or national society.

Unusually for co-operatives in the United Kingdom, it is not a member of Co-operatives UK. However, in its founding year of 1881, it joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.[1] Before the second world war, community leader Jenny Hyslop was one of the society's organisers.[2]

Until 2013, Clydebank Co-op had buying arrangements with the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG), a buying group managed by The Co-operative Group, the successor of SCWS, which also manages The Co-operative brand.[3]

In 2013/2014, Clydebank Co-op left the CRTG, agreeing to buy from local wholesaler JW Filshill, and co-brand its six stores with Filshill's KeyStore brand.[4][5]

Stores

The co-operative's largest store, on Dunn Street, Dalmuir.

As of 2015, the society operates seven food stores ranging from just over 6,500 square  feet at Dunn Street, to its smallest, 1,800 square feet (170 m2), at Great Western Road & Sylvania Way South, Clydebank

  • Great Western Road, Knightswood
  • Faifley Road, Faifley
  • Sylvania Way South, Clydebank
  • Kilbowie Road, Clydebank
  • Dunn Street, Dalmuir
  • Duntocher Road, Parkhall[6]

In 2014, it closed its Hardgate food store,[7] reducing the number of its food stores from seven to six. The Hardgate store later reopened as a Co-op/KeyStore More and continues to trade.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Clydebank Co-op Board, 1881". TheClydebankStory. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
  2. ^ Rafeek, Neil (2004). "Hyslop [née Reid], Janet Kerr [Jenny] (1898–1989), community activist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54401. Retrieved 17 March 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "About Us". Co-operative Retail Trading Group. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2008.
  4. ^ "Opening of new foodstore at Baldwin Avenue". Clydebank Co-op. 6 September 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  5. ^ Kidd, Marie-Claire (24 February 2014). "Clydebank Co-op withdraws from national co-operative buying group". Co-operative News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2015. Clydebank Co-operative is entering a supply agreement with Glasgow-based wholesaler JW Filshill, bringing to an end its 10-year arrangement with the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG). ... Last September, Clydebank opened its first jointly branded Clydebank Co-operative Society/KeyStore store in Glasgow's West End. A supply and fascia rollout to Clydebank's remaining five food outlets began this month and will continue throughout the year.
  6. ^ "Our food stores". Clydebank Co-op. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Hardgate Branch Closure". Clydebank Co-op. 28 November 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015. we will close our Hardgate branch on January 11th 2014.