Several co-ops have been included in the list of world’s 250 biggest retailers, compiled by professional services network Deloitte. Deloitte’s 21st annual Global Powers of Retailing report is based on publicly available data for […]

The question came up at a recent event on employee-owned businesses: will this trend of worker ownership ever spread to the tech world? Eager to offer insights, Maria Cardenas, a […]

When Susanne Ward and her late partner Patrick Reilley moved to Rockland from California in 1991, they knew it wasn’t easy to make a living in midcoast Maine and they […]

ROCKLAND — The pending sale of Rock City Coffee and Rock City Coffee Roasters to their workers will assure the continuation of the longtime downtown businesses. Susanne Ward, who founded the […]

Exhausted personally and politically by the current state of the world? Or just need a distraction — something to lighten up the remaining days of winter? Here’s a recommendation: Play […]

Worker cooperatives are a viable alternative to corporate capitalism, yet they are rarely brought up in political discourse, two speakers at a Harvard Law Forum event argued Wednesday. Nathan Schneider, […]

To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Co-op News asked women co-operators to share their experiences in the movement. Themed Press For Progress, the day is a call to […]

A decade ago, there were more than 50 liquor stores in West Oakland and zero full-service grocery stores. But in 2009, community members launched Mandela Foods Cooperative, a health food […]

Worker-owned agricultural cooperatives played a large role in creating a vibrant San Marcos economy throughout the last century. 218 Cooperative members were inspired to revive the tradition… San Marcos, TX […]

“If you’re a boomer business owner planning for succession, you can’t afford to overlook the employee ownership option,” writes Lori Shepherd in Entrepreneur. At NPQ, we have written about the […]

Montpelier, VT – At a reception overflowing the Vermont State House’s Cedar Creek Room, Renewable Energy Vermont presented co-founder of Catamount Solar, Dan Kinney with the 2017 Jim Grundy Award […]

GREENFIELD – The tasting room at the Artisan Beverage Cooperative is a place to spend time with friends in a relaxed environment and try new Katalyst Kombucha, Green River Ambrosiamead and […]

“Solar (energy) is worth looking into for everyone,” Josh Hilsdon says with certainty. He is the commercial design and sales consultant for Pioneer Valley PhotoVoltaics Cooperative Inc., also known as […]

GREENFIELD — PV Squared, a worker-owned cooperative and certified B Corp solar-installation company located in Greenfield, recently welcomed five new worker-owners to the ownership team. Each of the new worker-owners […]

Promising as the worker cooperative model is, on-the-ground businesses tend to have a difficult time growing, as Next City has covered. In 2014, the city of New York announced a […]

Chuck Turner’s grandfather was a member of the Cowiche Growers cooperative. So was his father. The family has tried other places over the years but the 39-year-old grower plans to […]

In Cincinnati, Ohio, a city with high levels of unemployment, new models of co-operation are being developed based on examples in US history – as well as current projects overseas. […]

U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), where Mo Manklang works as communications director, has staffers all over the country: four in Philly, one in Seattle, one in Oakland. It might be difficult to foster […]