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Originally Posted by DamageX
Define "quite often". Because until now, I've NEVER heard of any doing so. So you actually mean "very rarely", right?
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They don't get much publicity and I was going to say that the reason you did not lnow about the movement was because you were from the US, but then I read
"In the United States there are over 29,000 co-operatives employing 2 million people with over $652 billion in annual revenue"
Which I never heard of either.
In the UK it has a long history and is strong in food retail, insurance, banking, funeral services, and the travel industry in many parts of the country.
This may also be of interest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag...ve_Corporation