A business cooperative is a private group of small businesses that opt to pool their resources to benefit all members. This is not the same as multiple brands operating under a parent company; it is a ...

Sierra Allen, 21-year-old barista, had just ended their shift at Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe on July 2, 2023, when a co-worker texted them the shocking news: Owner Michael Krupp was unceremoniously ...

In 1903, an American entrepreneur, Charles Boettcher, founded the Great Western Sugar Company in Colorado, and opened two beet sugar refineries outside of Denver. Over the course of the 20th century, ...

Cooperative business models have long offered a unique method for organising economic activity by placing democratic control, shared ownership, and community benefit at the heart of enterprise. In the ...

What is a cooperative? It’s a business entity owned and controlled by its members, who both patronize the firm and express formal ownership of the assets of the firm through management rights and the ...

As Tom Adams, co-founder of Adams & Chittenden Scientific Glass, started planning his exit into retirement, he knew what he didn’t want to happen. Twenty-six years earlier, Adams was a production ...

Our French startup Digicoop is a remote-first worker cooperative. We started the company in 2015, based on our shared values and passion for technology. The goal was simple: make good products that ...

Founded in 1916 as the Cooperative League of America, the National Cooperative Business Association is a United States membership organization for cooperatives, businesses that are jointly-owned and ...

Cooperation Buffalo is seeking its next cohort of Cooperative Changemakers. This “Community Power Fellowship” an intensive 11-week training for cooperative entrepreneurs and advocates building an ...

Keystone Cooperative Inc. announced Monday it will distribute more than $57 million to its farmer-members, returning 100% of ...

Cooperative advertising is when two or more business entities band together to share advertising costs. Manufacturers commonly offer cooperative advertising programs to distributors and retail outlets ...