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Features >> Retail Societies

High-flyer Shaherazad Umbreen

Midlands Co-op set for a stylish retail makeover

The Co-op may, as the advert says, be “good with food.” But in some parts of the UK, its retail sector is reaching out way beyond the kitchen into other parts of the home.
March 29 2011
Category: Retail Societies

Christine Tacon addresses the conference

Co-op makes its mark at big farming conference

One of the key events of the agricultural calendar got 2011 off to a busy start for Christine Tacon CBE, head of Co-operative Farms, when she chaired the Oxford Farming Conference.
February 10 2011
Category: Retail Societies

Interview with Co-operative Group Chief Executive Peter Marks

Co-operative Group Chief Executive Peter Marks looks back at his three years in charge of the world’s biggest consumer co-op and focuses on the challenges ahead in this interview with Editor Dave Bowman . . .
September 23 2010
Category: Retail Societies

Children from Ashbeach Primary School, Ramsey St Mary, visit the bee centre

Children make a beeline for Anglia

Children and bees might seem an unusual combination — but young minds have been really made to buzz by an initiative launched by Anglia Co-operative at its headquarters in Peterborough.
September 08 2010
Category: Retail Societies

Marine Reserve expert Dr Jean Luc Soldant from the Marine Conservation Society, with Co-op and Membership Officer Sue Green, during the Co-operatives Fortnight visit to Lundy Islan

Getting back to nature with Lundy campaign

Many people visit Lundy to enjoy the spectacular views, for bird-watching, and to walk the numerous footpaths around the island, but for Co-operative members during Co-operatives Fortnight, there was an additional reason to make the journey.
August 05 2010
Category: Retail Societies

Putting the ME into membership

The recent launch of The Co-operative Group’s membership website www.co-operative.coop/membership and the online community social network ‘Hive’ opens up exciting new opportunities for members.
May 16 2010
Category: Retail Societies

HELPING HAND ... Brad Hill with children in Malawi who directly benefit from the Fairtrade scheme

Fairtrade goes mainstream — with a little help from the Co-operative Group

The annual Fairtrade Fortnight, (until March 7th) is set to be the biggest yet with major national brands now carrying the Fairtrade Mark. Here, Michelle Henderson,  Public Relations Manager (Food) at The Co-operative Group, asks Brad Hill, the Group’s Fairtrade Development Manager, how the market is shaping up since The Co-operative launched its own strategy to bring Fairtrade into the mainstream over a decade ago . . . 
February 23 2010
Category: Retail Societies

Freegans Christina and Andy search for edible food in a bin outside a Co-operative store in Leeds

Waste not, want not

On the day Environment Secretary Hilary Benn MP called on supermarkets to cut their levels of food waste, I found myself in Leeds, Mr Benn’s constituency, to find out first-hand about food waste from the city’s Co-operative stores.
February 12 2010
Category: Retail Societies

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

Commercial confidentiality versus Co-op democracy

I was contacted recently by a ‘concerned co-operator’ from another area who posed an interesting question.  
August 24 2009
Category: Retail Societies

Bank workers sing 'thank you' to customers

In another first for the Co-operative Bank, some of its staff are aiming to be the latest internet stars with their 'Thank You' video.
August 06 2009
Category: Retail Societies

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