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Co-op Group Profit Slumps As Bank Struggles
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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Profit at the Co-op Group has fallen by a third in the first half of this year, as the double-dip recession hit its bank hard...The Group's bank made a half year loss before tax of £58.6 million, due in part to "difficult market conditions" and the
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Doubts over saving factory jobs
Broxburn :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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Swinney doubts all 1,700 Hall's of Broxburn jobs could be saved The factory at Broxburn in West Lothian processes pork Scotland's Finance Secretary said it would be "difficult to conceive" that all 1,700 jobs at a threatened West Lothian pork plant
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REI belays same-sex marriage campaign
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
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News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Seattle and King County government and more Recreational Equipment, Inc., the venerable Seattle-based retail outfitter and cooperative, is the latest
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Glanbia Co-op chiefs split over milk plant deal with PLC
Brussels :: Belgium | 9 months ago
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Co-op directors are split over a planned milk processing venture due to be announced at the end of the month. The farmer-controlled co-op is in negotiations with Glanbia PLC , the food group it part owns, about a proposed joint venture to run milk
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Indian temples urged to set up cooperatives
Taiping :: Malaysia | 9 months ago
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Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism deputy minister Datuk Tan Lian Hoe said it should be known that the Government had been giving financial aid to temple cooperatives. However, it will not be possible for the Government to continue giving
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Cleaners to extend service
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 10 months ago
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Ministry of Health outsourced cleaning services at the three major hospitals in the country in 2010, cleaners at Lautoka Hospital want to extend their services to other private firms. The members of the Friendly Cleaning Services Co-operative Limited
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The death of co-operatives - and the birth of mass consumer debt
Edmonton :: Canada | 10 months ago
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Last year's riots in London saw the burning down of 'Union Point', the symbolic heart of the English co-operative movement. One year on, Aaron Peters asks what the destruction of this building, provoked by the forces of mass consumption, reveals
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Ordinance allows fresh membership to cooperative societies
Mumbai :: India | 10 months ago
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Drawing authority from the 97 Constitution Amendment, the State government has promulgated an ordinance to facilitate admission of members to cooperative societies, overcoming an 11-year bar on fresh inclusion. Under the 97 Amendment that came into
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Co-op chief Peter Marks retires after securing Lloyds bank branches coup
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Christopher Thomond for the Guardian The boss of the Co-operative Group has announced his retirement just weeks after agreeing to buy 632 bank branches from Lloyds Banking Group . Peter Marks, who joined the Co-op as a 17-year-old supermarket shelf
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Wisconsin cooperative to join CHS
New London :: CT :: USA | 10 months ago
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Farmers with northeastern Wisconsin's Larsen Cooperative Co. have elected to join industry giant CHS...Inver Grove Heights-based CHS announced Monday that voting members of New London, Wis.-based Larsen Cooperative had approved a merger. Larsen,
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