The C.W.S Crumpsall Biscuit Factory: through the magic lantern

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The follow-up report, "The Lie of the Label II" (2002), specifically urged legislative improvements to provide consumers with better nutritional information on all foods (especially those foods which disproportionately contribute to consumers' fat, salt and sugar intake) and a new, clearer, more intuitive format for presenting this information to consumers. The report also warned about the prevalence of advertising for sugary, fatty and/or salty foods which are aimed at children and how this will likely impact on the overall public health of young people the UK. [180] Campaigning". co-operative.coop. Archived from the original on 11 April 2012 . Retrieved 29 November 2015. As a result of their steady expansion after 2000 the Pharmacy and Funeralcare businesses were performing well, however the farming business was poorly aligned with the needs of the food stores and so was significantly reorganised in 2007 to focus the farmland on producing produce for the business's food stores. The co-op also moved into new business opportunities during this period adding a legal services business (providing conveyancing, will writing and probate services) and an Energy Generation business, the latter included significant investment in renewable energy generation which formed another key aspect of the co-op's drive towards its ethical image. This period was successful for the co-op in increasing its profitability and in beginning to rationalise what had been a sprawling but rather unsuccessful conglomerate. Many however, believed that for the co-op to survive in the long term it would need to merge with other large co-operative societies.

Co-operative Group buys 10 c-stores from Sainsbury's". Talking Retail. Nexus Business Media. 28 March 2008. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013 . Retrieved 4 August 2008. Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Oil Sands – a Dangerous Myth (PDF) (Report). WWF & The Co-operative Bank. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015 . Retrieved 5 June 2015.Thirdly, the time was a period of notable inflation and a strong pound, which had led to a wave of cheap imported goods – this devastated much of the UK's manufacturing industries (including the CWS). By the 1980s, it became clear that the trend in the retail sector was towards large (often out of town) supermarkets and hypermarkets with hundreds of them appearing across the UK. Between 2011 and 2013 the group campaigned on the issue of climate change under its banner of "The Clean Energy Revolution". [155] There were three main aspects to this campaigning: In addition to this, the business has provided on targets to reducing its own environmental impact including reducing direct GHG emissions by 50% relative to 2006. [156] the potential for contamination of groundwater by heavy metals and chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process; and Juliette Jowit (26 February 2009). "Indigenous people to launch legal challenge against oil firms over Canada tar sand project". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 November 2015.

In 2001 the group became the first retailer to include Braille writing on its range of medicines and alcoholic drinks, a move which received three industry awards. [183] In 2015 Braille can also be found on many products, including breakfast cereals. [185] [186] using claims which make something normal seem special (e.g. dried pasta which is free from preservatives, a legal requirement); Though the modernisation of the business was most noticeable after the 1997 takeover attempt, this is not to say that modernisation of the CWS had not been under way for some time. Since 1993 the CRTG had been working to switch the role of the CWS from "selling to" to "buying for" co-operative societies as a way of maximising the economies of scale to become more competitive to the major supermarkets. Since the 1960s the Co-op had been following retail trends after they had occurred, always having to catch up, in a way that it led the changes before the Second World War. Many leaders within the movement began to appreciate that this 'me too' approach to retailing was not working, for example, expanding into hypermarkets after Tesco and Sainsbury's had already developed a dominant position, but without the resources to compete on price. After the 1997 strategic review the business suggested that it close the majority of its hypermarkets and department stores and instead focus on its core chain of convenience stores. [5]

Buy Electrical Appliances Online At The Co-operative Electrical". coopelectricalshop.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 December 2015 . Retrieved 29 November 2015. By 1872, after the North of England was dropped from the title, the society became known as the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), based in Manchester. The Co-operative Advantage". Co-operatives UK. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015 . Retrieved 4 June 2015. Details of those people who are members of the Group Board and the Group Executive are provided here. Details are correct as of 2016. Annual Report & Accounts 2014/15 (PDF) (Report). The Midcounties Cooperative. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 15 February 2016.

The Group Board was made up of fifteen "lay" member directors elected from regional boards, another five which came from the "independent societies" and, though there was the option to appoint up to three "independent professional non-executive directors" (IPNEDs) to the Group Board at any one time, only one was ever appointed. Green, Mark (8 October 2009). "Co-operative Young Film-makers Festival 2009". National Science and Media Museum blog . Retrieved 27 January 2023. On 30 September 2020, the co-op changed some of the rewards associated with membership. This increased the community reward to 2% but reduced the member reward from 5% to 2%; the change still calculates rewards when co-op branded goods are bought. An app was also launched which allows immediate discounts and offers to be activated, exclusively for members.

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After investigations by a private detective and a subsequent criminal court case, Regan's bid was rejected and two senior CWS executives were dismissed and imprisoned for fraud. An arrest warrant was issued for Andrew Regan in 1999 however he had already emigrated to Monaco. [5] [9]

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Co-op Beds, an online bed retailer, was a strategic partnership with Silentnight which launched in 2018. [98] The Co-operative Independent Commission (1958) was tasked with investigating the decline in the co-op movement and for making recommendations for revitalising the movement in the future. Its recommendations had two main thrusts: that a strong response to the emerging multiple-store supermarket chains (including the appointment of professional managers) [6] was needed and that the Co-op needed to come to terms with the rise in consumerism and to move away from its association with the "working poor" rather than a more prosperous working class. The CWS responded with operation facelift in 1968 which introduced the first national co-operative branding, the 'Co-op' cloverleaf. Pulled out of the paint market and ran down its Derby factory; International Paint was contracted to supply paint for CWS [3] The Co-operative distributes food waste to FareShare with the equivalent of 196,000 redistributed in 2014 and no food waste was sent to landfill. [ citation needed] Supply chain efficiency [ edit ]