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East Midlands
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Co-operatives in the East Midlands are engaged in a very wide range of business from production to retailing, agriculture to high technology, finance to social housing. The main groups in the co-operative sector are:
consumer (retail) co-operatives,
including the Midlands, likeston,
Raunds, Desborough, Lincoln, and Chesterfield & District Co-operative Societies and the CWS, as well as smaller
community-based organisations,
production and service businesses
associated with the consumer sector, such as
the Co-operative Bank, Co-operative Insurance Society,
Shoefayre, Equity Shoes, Society Linen, Long Clawson Dairy and Queen Eleanor,
agricultural co-operatives
associate farmers in joint marketing and/or purchasing
enterprises,
employee-owned co-operatives
have the primary aim of creating and preserving employment for their members, including
the country,
credit unions
are financial co-operatives which encourage regular savings to create a pool of money from which loans can be made to
members,
housing co-operatives
provide affordable social housing to their tenant-members,
community co-operatives,
where members of a defined community work together to provide locally-needed facilities and to develop economic opportunities and regeneration initiatives,
co-operative consortia
enhance the competitiveness of sole traders and/or small businesses by providing them with mutual services,
co-operative development agencies
(CDAs) in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and
Nottinghamshire, credit union development agencies and
other training and support organisations including the
world-renowned Co-operative College in Loughborough.
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