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Old 04-09-2012, 02:10 AM  
Cherry7
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Originally Posted by DamageX View Post
Define "quite often". Because until now, I've NEVER heard of any doing so. So you actually mean "very rarely", right?
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
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