The future of business? Co-operatives are democratic, jointly owned businesses. They're becoming very popular, but have been largely overlooked by the business press.
This site is a "central membership organisation for co-operative enterprise throughout the UK" - lots of information here.
"The co-operative economy comprises over 4370 jointly owned, democratically controlled, enterprising businesses, owned by more than 11 million people, 1 in 5 of the British population, creating and sustaining ore than 195,000 jobs, contributing over £27 billion in turnover and £8.5 billion in assets to the United Kingdom economy, building wealth for the many, and not the few...."
Apr 29, 9:29am
