On Tuesday, the private health company Care UK announced that it had paid £48m for England's biggest out-of-hours GP service, Harmoni, originally set up as a GP co-operative, creating a new private health concern that could treat 15 million patients.
"I would say the co-operative created the most tension".
This is why AltGen is working with Co-operatives UK to create the Young Co-operators Prize – five £2,000 startup funds for groups of young people with co-operative ideas.
In recent years, however, women's co-operatives have been created to meet the surge in demand.
In Plymouth, the council is focusing on creating co-operative schools, with membership of each school mutual open to pupils, teachers, parents, local residents and employers.
What's wrong with avoiding the stigma of 'government health care' by creating co-operatives instead?
They also need to create co-operative file systems that work globally, and they need to make it easy for sentient applications to find network printers and screens that are close to users.
He draws a parallel with the regional agricultural banks in the Netherlands that established Rabobank, a co-operative big enough to create products that local banks then distributed.
It was mid-afternoon and already dark in the capital city of Helsinki by the time I met Taavi Heikkilä, chief executive of the SOK Corporation (also known as the "S Group"), who filled me in on his organisation's progress towards creating a co-operative economy.
Beleaguered attempts were made to create a co-operative economic order giving poorer countries a greater say in their destinies.
Machar suggested that Kiir had failed to use his time as leader since 2005 to build strong institutions, tackle official corruption or create a co-operative relationship with Khartoum.
