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.^[1] For a list of Co-operative Federations, please see List of co-operative federations.

Africa

Kenya

Mwalimu Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited, the largest savings and credit cooperative society (Sacco), in Kenya
Unaitas Sacco Society Limited, established 1993
United Nations Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited (UN Sacco Ltd)^[2]

Uganda

Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (WASACCO)

Asia

India

Amul
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO)
Southern Green Farming And Marketing Multi State cooperative society ( Farmfed)
Indian Cooperative Credit Society Limited (ICCSL)

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.

Philippines

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

Singapore

NTUC Enterprise is a new holding co-operative set up by NTUC, Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF) and unions affiliated to both NTUC and SLF. NTUC Enterprise institutionalises the strategic partnership between NTUC, SLF and the unions to enable the NTUC Social Enterprises to do even more for working families.^[3]

Europe

Denmark

Coop amba, is a consumer co-operative based in Denmark. Coop amba also includes Coop Bank and Coop Invest, two financial subsidiaries.

Finland

France

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

Germany

The Edeka Group, the largest German supermarket corporation, consists of several co-operatives of independent supermarkets operating under the umbrella organisation Edeka Zentrale AG & Co KG, with headquarters in Hamburg.

Italy

Coop, a system of Italian consumers' cooperatives which operates the largest supermarket chain in Italy. Its headquarters are located in Casalecchio di Reno, Province of Bologna.

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.
Dairygold Co-Operative Society Limited is an Irish dairy co-operative based in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland. It is Ireland's second largest dairy co-operative.
Ornua from the Irish "Ór Nua" meaning "new gold" (known as The Irish Dairy Board from 1961 to 2015) is an Irish Statutory agricultural cooperative, which markets and sells dairy products on behalf of its members: Irish dairy processors and Irish dairy farmers. The co-operative is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products.

Poland

Społem is a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores founded in 1868.

Scandinavia

Arla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Aarhus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.
Coop Norden (Coop Nordic) was a joint Scandinavian purchasing company that in 2007 dissolved and devolved to the constituent national cooperatives.^[4]
Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem, women's food cooperative, founded in Sweden 1905.

Spain

Mondragón Cooperative Corporation is a federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain
- Eroski, a Spanish supermarket chain with nearly 1,000 outlets spread across Spain, within the Mondragón Corporation group.

Switzerland

United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man

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
Ipswich Industrial Co-operative Society formed 1868 now merged
John Lewis Partnership (employee-owned business, not formal co-op)
London Capital Credit Union
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)^[5]
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
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.

North America

Los Horcones, a Mexican producer cooperative and Walden Two (an experimental community)
UBPC, a group of cooperatives all around Cuba that’s mostly used for agriculture, similar to a CPA
CPA, a group of cooperatives all around Cuba that’s mostly used for agriculture, similar to a UBPC

Canada

Arctic Co-operatives Limited (retail co-operative in the Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Northern Manitoba.
Blocks Recording Club (record label)
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.
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.
Stocksy United (Stocksy) is a Canadian multi-stakeholder platform cooperative, selling stock photos and videos on behalf of its international membership of 1500+ artist contributors.

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, with 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.

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 company in Canada producing butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, whipped cream and lactose free milk for retail, foodservice, industrial and export markets.
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)
St-Albert Cheese Co-operative
Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op
Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative^[7]
Wireless Nomad was a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Ontario, 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

Access Communications is a telecommunication co-operative
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)
Innovation Credit Union
Lake Country Co-op (Prince Albert)
Saskatoon Co-op (Saskatoon)
Saskatoon Farmers' Market (Saskatoon)
Sherwood Co-op (Regina)
Southern Rails Cooperative (railway)

United States

21st Street Co-op, student housing co-operative in Austin, Texas
Ace Hardware, Oak Brook, Illinois
Affiliated Foods Midwest Co-op Inc.
Affiliated Foods Southwest
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
AgriBank
Ant Hill Cooperative
Arizmendi Bakery, San Francisco, California
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
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Black Star Co-op A brewpub located in Austin, TX
Blood Centers of America is the largest blood supply network in the U.S
Blue Diamond Growers
Bob's Red Mill
Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
Cabot Creamery, Vermont-based dairy marketing
CCA Global Partners
Central Grocers Cooperative
Certified Grocers Midwest
Choptank Electric Cooperative
CHS Inc.
Coastal Federal Credit Union
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
Equal Exchange
Farm Credit Bank of Texas
First Tech Credit Union
Florida's Natural Growers (formerly Citrus World Inc.)
Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD)
Freedom Farm Cooperative, an agricultural cooperative founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967
Full Sail Brewing Company
George Street Co-op
Great River Energy
Greenbelt Homes, Inc.^[8]
Greenbelt News Review^[9]
Group Health Cooperative
GROWMARK, Inc.
Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI)^[10]
Land O'Lakes
Madison Community Co-op
MFA Incorporated
Michigan State University Student Housing Cooperative
National Cooperative Bank (now NCB)
National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)
National Grape Cooperative Association, Inc.
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation^[11]
Navy Federal Credit Union
New Deal Cafe^[12]
New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union^[13]
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.)^[14]
Rapidan Camps^[15]
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^[16]
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)^[17]
United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank)
Universal Cooperatives
URM Stores
VHA, Inc.
Wakefern Food Corporation
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

Oceania

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.^[18]^[19] The Co-op later being listed up for sale in 2019 and later sold on January 25, 2021 to the wholly owned Australian company Bega Cheese.^[20]
CBH Group and Wesfarmers both started as co-operative groups in Western Australia in the early twentieth century.