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Looking to do your shopping? Here's part two of our ethical gift guide, with items from the Ethical Shop and the Co-op...
09/12/2025

Looking to do your shopping? Here's part two of our ethical gift guide, with items from the Ethical Shop and the Co-op Heritage Trust

Part two of our 2025 Christmas Gift Guide includes a range of items from the Ethical Shop and the Co-operative Heritage Trust

Check out the and CICs celebrated at Social Enterprise UK’s Festival of Hope
09/12/2025

Check out the and CICs celebrated at Social Enterprise UK’s Festival of Hope

A number of co-ops and community interest companies (CIC) have picked up prizes at the Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) Awards

Expanded robot tech at logistics centre, electronic shelf edge labelling, in-store digital comm screens: latest innova...
09/12/2025

Expanded robot tech at logistics centre, electronic shelf edge labelling, in-store digital comm screens: latest innovations at Coop Norway

New logistics technology, electronic shelf edge labelling and digital communication screen rollouts for Coop Norway

With added to curriculum, England's Central Co-op and funeral director John Adams issue white paper guidance for pol...
09/12/2025

With added to curriculum, England's Central Co-op and funeral director John Adams issue white paper guidance for policymakers and educators

Central Co-op Food

Central Co-op document on bereavement education includes guidance and evidence for educators, policymakers and the funeral profession

Australia’s top 100 and posted $47.7bn in revenue for the year to 30 June, says sector impact report from apex BCCM
08/12/2025

Australia’s top 100 and posted $47.7bn in revenue for the year to 30 June, says sector impact report from apex BCCM

The first Impact Report from the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals found the co-ops employ more than 94,000 people

New Zealand’s Co-op Bank pays customers $7.225m over excessive fees, following Commerce Commission investigation
08/12/2025

New Zealand’s Co-op Bank pays customers $7.225m over excessive fees, following Commerce Commission investigation

New Zealand’s Co-op Bank has admitted breaches of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act and repaid customers NZ$7.225m

Obituary: Alban D’Amours, former director of the International Cooperative Alliance and president of Desjardins Group
08/12/2025

Obituary: Alban D’Amours, former director of the International Cooperative Alliance and president of Desjardins Group

The global co-operative movement is remembering Alban D’Amours, the former International Cooperative Alliance director who died on 9 November 2025, aged 85. Born on 9 July 1940 in Sainte-Françoise, Quebec, Canada, he studied at the Université Laval and the University

Western Australian grain co-op CBH Group sells 50% stake in south east Asia's Interflour $169m as it looks to focus on d...
08/12/2025

Western Australian grain co-op CBH Group sells 50% stake in south east Asia's Interflour $169m as it looks to focus on domestic growth plan

Australian agri co-op CBH Group has sold its 50% stake in southeast Asian grain processor Interflour Group for AU$169m

International Year of closes at World Summit for Social Development, with recognised as social and solidarity econom...
06/12/2025

International Year of closes at World Summit for Social Development, with recognised as social and solidarity economy leaders and the UN considering an IYC every 10 years

International Cooperative Alliance

The closing event of the International Year of Cooperatives, held at Doha, celebrated 12 months of co-operative action and activity

gather ahead of World Social Summit at Doha to launch tools to ‘build a better world’
06/12/2025

gather ahead of World Social Summit at Doha to launch tools to ‘build a better world’

Co-operators met in Doha to launch three tools designed to help co-operators continue to ‘Build a Better World’

We speak to Mohamed Zouaou, president of Moroccan agri-co-op Coopérative Agricole Ikherrazen - 'not just an economic pro...
06/12/2025

We speak to Mohamed Zouaou, president of Moroccan agri-co-op Coopérative Agricole Ikherrazen - 'not just an economic project, but a true story of collective struggle and youthful determination’

'Ikhrazn is not just an economic project, but a true story of collective struggle and youthful determination'

Regulatory reform for , and other , and a new unit for mutuals at the FCA: UK regulators look for ways to grow the ...
06/12/2025

Regulatory reform for , and other , and a new unit for mutuals at the FCA: UK regulators look for ways to grow the and mutuals sectors

Regulators issue report on country’s finance mutuals, with recommendations for ways to ease the start-up process and reduce admin costs

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