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List of co-operative enterprises (see List of Co-operative Federations for a list of Co-operative Federations):

Contents 1 Australia 2 Canada 3 Denmark 4 Finland 5 France 6 Germany 7 Japan 8 Kenya 9 Republic of Macedonia 10 Malta 11 The Netherlands 12 New Zealand 13 Spain 14 Scandinavia 15 Switzerland 16 United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man 17 Ukraine 18 United States 19 See also 20 External links

[edit] Australia

New South Wales

• Sydney Energy Cooperative Limited, A member-based Energy Cooperative in SydneySydney Energy Cooperative
• University Co-operative Bookshop Ltd, Uni Co-op Bookshop, Australia's largest Consumers'_cooperative

South Australia

• South Australian Energy Co-operative Limited

SA Energy Co-op

Victoria

• Friends of the Earth

FoE food co-operative & cafe. Located at 312 Smith street, Collingwood

• The Melbourne Uni Food Co-operative.

Located on the 1stst Floor, Union House, University of Melbourne, Parksville,

• Organarchy, RMIT Food Co-op

Level 4, Building 8, RMIT

• Wholefoods Co-operative, Monash Uni (Clayton)

Food Co-op has a grocery, café and restaurant that does lunches

[edit] Canada

• Aaron Webster Housing Cooperative, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Access Communications (Regina, SK)
• Accessible Technologies (Westmount, NS)
• Agropur, Longueuil, Quebec
• Alberta Wheat Pool, Alberta
• Baseline Type and Graphics (Vancouver, BC)
• BeaDazzled Bead Shop (Guelph, ON)
• The Big Carrot (Toronto, ON)
• Calgary Alternative Transportation Co-operative
• Calgary Co-Operative Association Limited [1]
• Campus Co-operative Residences, Inc. [2] (CCRI) (Toronto, ON)
• Canadian Co-operative Association
• Canadian Press
• Canadian University Press, Toronto, Ontario
• Canadian Travel Co-op (Burlington, ON. Regina, SK)
• CFRO-FM, Vancouver Co-operative Radio, Vancouver, BC. [3]
• Circle Sun Farms (Elmwood, ON)
• Come as You Are (Toronto, ON) [4]
• Creating Employment Through Art (Vancouver, BC)
• Co-op Atlantic (Moncton, NB)[5]
• Coopérative de Solidarité les Ateliers Boirec (Montreal, PQ)
• Coopérative du Café Chaos (Montreal, PQ) [6]
• Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada [7]
• The Co-operators Life Insurance
• Drum Travel Co-op (Toronto, ON) [8]
• Enviro-Safe Cleaning Workers Co-operative (Winnipeg, MB]
• Esson Estates Winery Co-operative (Waterloo, ON) [9]
• Extension Community Development Co-op (St. John's, NL) [10]
• Fogo Island Co-op Society (Seldom Come By, NL) [11]
• Fair Trade Clothing Co-op (Toronto, ON) [12]
• Federated Co-operatives Limited
• Future Forestry Services Co-op (New Glasgow, NS) [13]
• Ganesh Community Development Co-operative (Toronto, ON) [14]
• Gay Lea Foods, Mississauga, Ontario
• Gorman Restaurant Equipment Co-op (Moncton, NB) [15]
• Greenhouse Co-op, The (St Peter's, NS)
• GROWMARK, Ontario [16]
• Guelph Campus Cooperative, Guelph, Ontario [17]
• Haymarket Café Workers' Collective (Calgary, AB) [18]
• The Hoito Restaurant, (Thunder Bay, Ontario) [19]
• Honestworkingpeople.com Co-op (Sydney Forks, NS) [20]
• Hullabaloo Publishing (Saskatoon, SK)
• International Women's Catering Co-op (Victoria, BC)
• Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op (Wolfville, NS) [21]
• Karma Food Co-opKarma Food Co-op (Toronto, ON) [22]
• Knowledge-IT Canada (Saskatoon, SK) [23]
• La Siembra (Ottawa, ON) [24]
• Lakewood Terrace Housing Co-operative (Vancouver, BC) [25]
• Libra Knowledge and Information Services Co-operative (Toronto, ON) [26]
• Little Slocan Eco-Lodge Co-op (Slocan City, BC) [27]
• Malcolm Island Shellfish Co-op (Sointula, BC) [28]
• Manitoba Cooperative Association (Winnipeg, MB)
• Moncton Pizza Co-op / Pizza Shack (Moncton, NB)
• Mondragon Bookstore, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Mountain Equipment Co-op [29]
• Mud Creek Medical Co-op (Wolfville, NS)
• Multi-cultural Health Brokers Co-op (Edmonton, AB) [30]
• MYDAS (Mobilizing Youth to Deliver Advisory Services) (Charlottetown, PEI) [31]
• Natural Cycle (Winnipeg, MB) [32]
• Neechi Foods (Winnipeg, MB) [33]
• Norfolk Co-Operative, Norfolk, Ontario
• Northern Breweries, Ontario (defunct)
• Northern Star Worker Co-op (Winnipeg, MB) [34]
• One-stop Pop-ed Worker Co-op (Toronto, ON) [35]
• Ontario Co-operative Association, Guelph, Ontario [36]
• Ontario Natural Food Co-op (Toronto, ON) [37]
• Organic Meadow, Guelph, Ontario
• Organic Planet Worker Co-op (Winnipeg, MB) [38]
• Otter Co-op, Aldergrove, British Columbia
• ParIT Worker Co-operative (Winnipeg, MB) (http://parit.ca/)
• Planet Bean Coffee (Guelph, ON) [39]
• Red River Co-operative (Winnipeg, MB)
• Rising Tide (Antigonish, NS) [40]
• Rochdale College, Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
• Science 44' Housing Co-op, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario[41]
• Sky Dragon (Hamilton, ON) [42]
• Sleepless Goat, The (Kingston, ON) [43]
• Soaring Sisters Enterprises Co-op (North Sydney, NS) [44]
• Sound Advice Consulting Co-op (Ottawa, ON)
• Squeegeemedia Co-operative (Vancouver, BC)
• Sustainability Solutions Group Workers' Co-operative (Gibsons, BC; Montreal, QC)
• Team Works Co-op: Simply Fine Wines (Waterloo, ON) [45]
• Theresa's Eatery (Vancouver, BC) [46].
• Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative [47]
• United Farmers of Alberta (Calgary, AB)
• Uprising Books (Toronto, ON) [48]
• Urban Mobility (Toronto, ON) [49]
• Urbane Cyclist (Toronto, ON) [50]
• Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO-FM, Vancouver, BC. [51]
• Vancouver Renewable Energy Co-op [52]
• Venables Valley Producers Co-op (Venables Valley, BC) [53]
• View Court Housing Co-op (Vancouver, BC) [54]
• Village Grocery Workers' Co-op (St. Peter's, NS)
• Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated (Waterloo, ON)
• War On Music (Winnipeg, MB)
• Wild Island Foods Co-op (Sointula, BC) [55]
• Wireless Nomad (Toronto, ON)
• WindShare Co-operative [56]

[edit] Denmark

• Arla Foods
• Det Kooperative Fællesråd
• FDB

[edit] Finland

• Metsäliitto
• OP-Pohjola Group
• S-Group
• Valio

[edit] France

• Crédit Agricole

[edit] Germany

• medien denk fabrik
• Tageszeitung Junge Welt, Verlag 8. Mai GmbH
• JARIVA IT-Freelancers Co-operative

[edit] Japan

• Co-op Kobe

[edit] Kenya

• Co-operative Bank of Kenya[57]

[edit] Republic of Macedonia

• First Grape Producers' Cooperative Negotino[58]

[edit] Malta

• Farm Advisory Services Co-op Limited
• Knowledge Matters Co-op Limited
• Koperattiva Kulturali Universitarja Limitata
• Malta Maritime Pilots Co-operative Society Limited
• Ports Foremen Co-operative Limited

[edit] The Netherlands

• Aalsmeer Flower Auction
• Campina
• Cosun
• Flora Holland
• Friesland Foods
• Rabobank
• Sovion
• The Greenery

[edit] New Zealand

A selection of the larger full members of the ‘NZ CO-OPERATIVES ASSOCIATION’ as at 30 June 2004 (see [59] for full list)

• Alliance Group Ltd
• Ashburton Trading Society Ltd
• Ballance Agri-Nutrients Co-operative Ltd
• Combined Rural Traders Society Ltd
• Dairy Goat Co-operative (NZ) Ltd
• Dairy Meats NZ Ltd
• Delta Produce Co-operative Ltd
• Eastpack Ltd
• Electricity Ashburton Ltd
• Farmers’ Mutual Group
• Farmlands Trading Society Ltd
• Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd
• Foodstuffs (Auckland) Ltd
• Foodstuffs South Island Ltd
• Foodstuffs (Wellington) Ltd
• Independent Timber Merchants Co-operative Ltd
• Interflora Pacific Unit Ltd
• Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd
• PPCS Ltd
• PSIS Ltd
• Ravensdown Fertiliser Co-operative Ltd
• Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
• Vehicle Inspection NZ Ltd
• Westland Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd

[edit] Spain

• Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
• FEVECTA - Valencian federation of worker co-ops

[edit] Scandinavia

• Coop Norden

[edit] Switzerland

• Migros
• Coop (Switzerland)
• Raiffeisen Zentralbank

[edit] United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man

• Co-operative Group, including
  • Co-operative Bank
• Anglia Regional Co-operative Society
• Brixton Cycles
• Calverts graphic design & print co-operative
• Channel Islands Co-operative Society
• Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society
• Colchester and East Essex Co-operative Society
• Coniston Co-operative Society
• Co-operative Press
• East of England Co-operative Society
• Eighth Day co-operative [60]
• Footprint Workers' Co-op
• Heart of England Co-operative Society
• Highburton Co-operative Society
• Ilkeston Co-operative Society
• John Lewis Partnership (employee-owned business, not formal co-op)
• Langdale Co-operative Society
• Lincolnshire Co-operative Society
• Manx Co-operative Society
• Midcounties Co-operative
• Midlands Co-operative Society
• New Internationalist
• Penrith Co-operative Society
• People's Press Printing Society
• Phone Co-op
• Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society
• Radstock Co-operative Society
• Ruskin House
• Scottish Midland Co-operative Society
• Shared Interest
• Shepley Co-operative Society
• Southern Co-operatives
• Substance Co-op
• Suma Wholefoods (Triangle Wholefoods Collective Ltd) [61]
• Swann Morton worker co-op
• Tamworth Co-operative Society
• Total Coverage Co-operative Design Consultancy
• Magpie Recycling
• Wooldale Co-operative Society
• Bristol Wood Recycling Project
• Veggies of Nottingham

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.

[edit] Ukraine

• Credit Unions of Ukraine

[edit] United States

• ACE Hardware
• Affiliated Foods Inc.
• Affiliated Foods Midwest Co-op Inc.
• Affiliated Foods Southwest
• AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
• Ag Processing Inc.
• Agribank, FCB
• Agri-Mark Inc.
• Alabama Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Allied Building Stores, Inc.
• Alto Dairy Cooperative
• American Crystal Sugar Co.
• Ant Hill Cooperative
• Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation, Inc.
• Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.
• Associated Food Stores
• Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc
• Associated Grocers of the South, Inc.
• Associated Grocers, Inc.
• Associated Milk Producers, Inc
• Associated Press
• Associated Wholesale Grocers
• Associated Wholesalers, Inc.
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative
• Black Star Co-op A brewpub located in Austin, TX
• Blue Diamond Growers
• Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
• Buckeye Power, Inc., Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative
• Calcot Ltd.
• California Dairies, Inc.
• Calumet Natural Foods Cooperative
• Central Co-op's Madison Market
• Central Electric Power Cooperative
• Central Florida Electric Cooperative
• Central Grocers Cooperative
• Certified Grocers Midwest
• Choptank Electric Cooperative
• CHS Inc.
• Co-opportunity (Santa Monica, CA)
• CoBank
• Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Mount Gilead, Ohio
• Cooperative Finance Corporation (NRUCFC)
• Cooperative Producers, Inc.
• Countrymark Cooperative Holding Corporation
• Dairy Farmers of America
• Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
• Diamond Walnut Growers, Inc.
• Do It Best
• East End Food Co-op (Pittsburgh, PA)
• East Kentucky Power Cooperative
• ENAP, Inc.
• Equal Exchange
• Equity Co-op Livestock Sales Association
• Farm Credit Bank of Texas
• Farmers Cooperative Company
• Florida's Natural Growers (formerly Citrus World Inc.)
• Foremost Farms USA Cooperative
• Food Conspiracy Co-op
• FTD - Florists' Transworld Delivery
• George Street Co-op
• Great River Energy
• Greenbelt Coop [62]
• Greenbelt Homes, Inc. [63]
• Group Health Cooperative
• GROWMARK, Inc.
• HealthPartners Inc.
• Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Co-op Inc.
• Isla Vista Food Co-op
• Jefferson Energy Cooperative
• Key Food Stores Cooperative Inc.
• Land O'Lakes
• Lone Star Milk Producers
• Madison Community Co-op
• Mariposa Food Co-op (Philadelphia, PA)
• MD & VA Milk Producers Cooperative Association
• MFA Incorporated
• MFA Oil Company
• Michigan Milk Producers
• National Cable Television Cooperative, Inc.
• National Cooperative Bank (now NCB)
• National Grape Cooperative Association, Inc.
• National Information Solutions Cooperative
• National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC)
• Navy Federal Credit Union
• New Deal Cafe [64]
• Nebraska Rural Radio Association
• NonProfits' United
• North Carolina Electric Membership Corp.
• Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
• O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative
• Oberlin Bike Co-op
• Oberlin Student Cooperative Association (OSCA)
• Ocean Spray (cooperative)
• Oglethorpe Power Corporation
• Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
• Pacific Coast Producers 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)
• Plains Cotton Co-op Association
• Prairie Farms Dairy Inc.
• Progressive Affiliated Lumbermen Co-op Inc.
• R.E.I. (Recreational Equipment Inc.) [65]
• Rapidan Camps [66]
• Riceland Foods
• Santa Cruz Campus Bicycle Center (AKA Bike Co-op)
• Santa Cruz Student Housing Co-ops
• Seminole Electric Cooperative
• Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-op (Everett, WA)
• Snake River Sugar Company
• South Central Power Company
• South Dakota Wheat Growers Association
• South Mississippi Electric Power Association
• Southern States Cooperative
• Staplcotn, Inc.
• State Employees Credit Union, Inc.
• Sunkist Growers, Inc.
• Swiss Valley Farms
• TechCollective
• Tennessee Farmers Cooperative
• Tillamook County Creamery Association
• TOPCO Associates
• Tri-State G&T Association
• True Value Corporation
• U.S. AgBank, FCB
• U.S. Central Credit Union
• Unified Western Grocers
• UNIPRO Food Service, Inc.
• United Dairymen of Arizona
• United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank)
• United Suppliers, Inc.
• Universal Cooperatives
• University Students Cooperative Association
• URM Stores
• VHA, Inc.
• Wakefern Food (ShopRite)
• Watonwan Farm Service Company
• Weaver's Way Co-op
• Weaver Street Market
• Wedge Community Co-op
• WesCorp FCU
• Western Family Holding Company
• Western Sugar Cooperative
• WestFarm Foods
• WIS-PAK
• WSIPC

[edit] See also

• List of Co-operative Federations
• List of retailers' cooperatives
• List of worker cooperatives

[edit] External links

• Online directory of UK co-operatives
• Online directory of .coop TLD users
• Online directory of Maltese co-operatives

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