CCW - Cooperatives of the Americas Agreement
By the invitation of Graciela Fernández Quintas – President of Cooperatives of the Americas , Prof. Petar Stefanov - President of Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide took part in a...
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iCoop Provides Organic Anticancer Food
iCoop Steps Up Social Responsibility and Healthy Eating by Providing Organic Anticancer Food to the Anticancer Diet of Doban Hospital of Korean Medicine iCoop held...
CCU-Bulgaria Hosts ICA Board
The leaders of the global co-operative movement convened for the ICA Board meeting in Sofia, hosted by CCU-Bulgaria from 7 to 9 March, 2023. This is the second time the ICA is hosted by CCU....
ICETT Webinar: Global Value Chains
CCW participated in the ICETT ( ICA International Cooperative Entrepreneurship Think Tank ) webinar on 13 December on the subject of the role cooperatives in creating ethical...
CCU Bulgaria Marks the New School Year
Each year on the occasion of the first school day in Bulgaria – 15 September, Central Cooperative Union (CCU) organizes various thematic festivities. In Sofia, the...
International Children's Drawing Competition
Consumer Cooperatives Worldwide (CCW) announces the competition titled "Smile, Dream & Draw“ , organised at the initiative of the Central Cooperative...
CoopsDay 2022 - President Address
Dear co-operators, This year on 2 July, the global co-operative movement united in celebrating the 100th International Day of Co-operatives under the slogan “Co-operatives...
Coop Ukraine Addressed the ICA General Assembly
The ICA’s General Assembly in Seville heard from Illia Gorokhovskyi, the Chair of Coop Ukraine, who called on cooperators in attendance to continue to support his country’s war torn...
CCW Elections - President & Executive Committee
Today, members of Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide convened for a General Assembly and held elections for president and executive committee members for the next mandate June 2022 – November...
CCW General Assembly 2022
The organisation's elections General Assembly shall take place on 19 June 2022 , 15:00-16:30, in Sevilla, Spain, within the framework of the GA of the International...
CCW Celebrates CoopsDay!
International Day of Cooperatives - 3 July 2021 - All businesses have been hit hard by the effects of the pandemic but this crisis has separated...
International Day of Cooperatives 2021
The 2021 Theme 3 July 2021 marks the International Day of Co-operatives ( #CoopsDay ) which will be celebrated under the theme of " Rebuild Better Together" ....
World Cooperative Monitor 2020
The 2020 issue of the World Cooperative Monitor report explores the economic and social impact of the largest co-operatives worldwide, providing a ranking of the Top 300 ,...
130 Years of Cooperative Movement in Bulgaria
2020 was historically destined to pass under the auspices of the 130th Anniversary of the cooperative movement in Bulgaria. This is a year for which we have planned many national and...
Healing Food - iCOOP Innovates Products & Services
iCOOP declared ‘Healing and Restoring’ as its new business foundation in 2019 and established the Natural Dream Food Cure & Research Foundation to...
CCW President Address - International Coops Day
International Day of Cooperatives - 4 July 2020 - Consumer cooperatives are frontrunners in their efforts towards climate action, because they abide by the...
CCU Bulgaria: International Day of Cooperatives
4 July 2020 98 th ICA International Cooperative Day 26 th UN International Day of Cooperative Cooperatives for Climate Action On the occasion of the 2020...
POSTPONED: 33rd World Cooperative Congress
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Cooperative Congress has been postponed and will be held from 1-3 December 2021 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. * The World...
Co-op Story: COVID-19
In these testing times, consumer co-operatives stay true to their values of self-help and solidary to reinforce their success in serving and protecting consumer-members and their local...
CCW President Address: COVID-19
Dear CCW Members, Dear Colleagues, By virtue of this letter, I believe it is my duty as President of Central Cooperative Union - Bulgaria ...
iCOOP Co-operative Institute
There are currently about 10 small and large think tanks in Korea that carry out co-operative research and education. They are the forerunners of raising awareness of co-operative movement...
CCW Publishes First-Ever Policy Guide
CCW has published a new influencing strategy document, a first of its kind , for consumer co-operatives. The policy guide, co-produced Mutuo – esteemed think tank for co-operatives and...
Coops Day Celebration in Bulgaria
On the occasion of 6 July, the Bulgarian co-operative movement joined the global co-operative family and festively celebrated the 97 th ICA International Day of Co-operatives and 25 United...
CCU Opens “Sweetest” Store Yet
Choco Coop – a real chocolate fantasyland – opened its doors to Sofia’s public on 07.02.2019. CCU’s latest addition to the national co-op retail chain is located...
CCU-Bulgaria: Social Distinction & Building of the Year
The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy annually holds "National Social Innovation Awards in Support of the Social Economy". For the second consecutive year, Central Cooperative...
JCCU Receives Food Sanitation Award
JCCU received a "letter of appreciation" from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) at the "2018 Food Sanitation Contributor and Excellent Food Sanitation...
EU Parliament Delegation paid a courtesy visit to JCCU
On September 20, 2018, a 7-member delegation of the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) paid a courtesy visit to JCCU to hold talks with HONDA Eiichi - President, together...
JCCU Launched "Ethical by CO・OP"
Japanese consumer co-ops and their members have been aiming to make society and the life of people better through their businesses and overall operations, especially through...
iCOOP Campaign to Reduce Body Burden
For three months from April to June, iCOOP conducted the ‘Campaign to Reduce Body Burden’and 472 members participated to reduce the amount of toxic substances accumulated in the body....
EROSKI Wins Spain’s “Best Online Supermarket” Award
Eroski’s online store has been chosen as the best online supermarket for the second consecutive year. The cooperative has received the distinction during the ceremony of the Trade Awards...
Co-op Ventures into Healthcare Market with Acquisition of Dimec
The Co-op announced on 14.09.2018 the acquisition of Dimec, a healthcare technology start-up, which has developed a unique digital solution enabling patients and their GPs to interact...
Conference: “Consumer Co-operatives 2030: Mission & Vision”
Welcome Address Massimo Bongiovanni, PhD (MB) – President of Euro Coop and host Prof. Petar Stefanov (PS) – President of CCW and CCU-Bulgaria opened the conference....
Euro Coop Elections; Centrosoyuz Becomes Member
Euro Coop had its annual General Assembly on 27 June 2018 in Sofia, hosted by Central Cooperative Union – Bulgaria . The meeting marked very significant strategic and operational...
JCCU & ILO: Training Program for African Co-op Leaders
Since 2010, Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) in collaboration with the International Labour Office (ILO), especially the Regional Office for Africa (ROAF), the Co-operative...
JCCU - ILO Seminar on Co-operatives & SDGs
Japan Joint Committee of Co-operative (JJC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) Office for Japan co-organized a public seminar under the theme "Co-operative Activities and the...
iCOOP KOREA’s First Employee Owned Store Opens
On September 13, COOP SRORE Daegu Inc. opened Natural Dream Esiapolis Store, the first store in iCOOP KOREA which is wholly owned and fully operated by employees. Employee ownership means the...
iCoop Korea - 20th Anniversary
On September 1, iCOOP KOREA held a discussion to celebrate its 20th Anniversary at Ewha Woman’s University education hall. Under the theme ‘ The past and future of iCOOP...
CCU Bulgaria Celebrates the New School Year for a 5th Consecutive Year
A Co-op Festival under the Slogan "Going to School with COOP: Let’s eat healthy and be active in sports" On Sunday, 11 September, shortly before the start of the...
International Summit of Cooperatives: How to promote growth by creating value for society?
A keynote speaker at the International Summit of Cooperatives in Quebec, Mark Kramer thinks the success of a business depends on the well being of the society in which it operates....
Alliance represents co-operative movement at SDG Business Forum
On 19 July, the Alliance participated in the high-level SDG Business Forum, which convened business leaders, government leaders, UN agency heads, and civil society to explore the role of the...
Eroski's growing membership - putting members at the heart of co-op
With 7 million members and holders of Eroski member cards, Eroski reports a 15% increase in membership in 2015. The Eroski Group has transferred savings of € 212 million to the members in the...
S Group awarded 2016 NACS Insight European Technology Implementation Award
We are proud to announce that our Finnish member S Group was awarded the 2016 NACS Insight European Technology Implementation Award. The award recognizes S Group for the...
CCW Members Meeting Elects new Executive Committee 2016-2018
The bi-annual elections Members’ Meeting of Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide (CCW) was held on 11 November 2015, within the framework of the International Co-operative Alliance General...
China-Europe Co-operative Business Summit 2015
The All-China Federation for Supply and Marketing of Co-operatives hosted the inaugural co-operative summit in Shanghai on 9-11 December, where they welcomed delegations from national co-operative...
Report 2012 - Climate change and consumer co-operatives
Climate change and consumer co-operatives: Taking the challenge forward - Report 2012 Report 2012 climate change download The fight against climate change continues to be a...
Report 2011 - Climate Change and Consumer Co-operatives
Download report 2011 - - Climate Change and Consumer Co-operatives: Taking the Challenge forward Report 2011 Foreword The fight against the Climate Change...
Report 2010 on the project: "Climate Change and Consumer Co-operatives: Taking the Challenge forward"
This report presents a vast number of initiatives that Euro Coop members have developed in 2009 to tackle climate change and represents the first follow-up report on the commitments...