List of retailers' cooperatives

The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperatives, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services.

Grocery stores

Pharmacies

Hardware stores

  • Ace Hardware[6]
  • Distribution America (Trustworthy Hardware, Sentry Hardware, Golden Rule Lumber Center, Priced Right Everyday) [7]
  • Do It Best[8]
  • Handy Hardware[9]
  • Home Hardware Stores (Canada) [10]
  • Mica DIY[11]
  • Mitre 10 (New Zealand) [12]
  • PRO Hardware[13]
  • True Value - Subsidiary of Do It Best
  • United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank) [14]
  • Val-Test Distributors

Distributors

Other

  • Best Western – hotel marketing
  • The Bike Cooperative – began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the Carpet One parent cooperative (CCA Global Partners); in 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent US bike store owners[17][18]
  • Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
  • Intres b.v.
  • KaleidoScoops
  • Lighting One[19]
  • Mr. Tire (Universal Cooperatives)
  • Les Mousquetaires

See also

  • Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates – federation of grocers' cooperatives
  • Consumers' cooperative
  • List of cooperatives
  • SPAR – an international grocers' and distributors' marketing and buying association that organizes along similar lines to a co-operative

References

  1. Archived copy retrieved 2022-07-11^
  2. Home mygnp.com^
  3. Home healthmart.com^
  4. MyLeader.com retrieved 2007-05-18^
  5. Valu-Rite.com retrieved 2007-05-18^
  6. Home acehardware.com^
  7. Home daonline.com^
  8. Archived copy retrieved 2007-05-18^
  9. Home handyhardware.com^
  10. Home homehardware.ca^
  11. About micahardware.co.uk^
  12. About mitre10.co.nz^
  13. Home prohardware.com^
  14. Home unitedhardware.com^
  15. [orgill.com]^
  16. Home jensenonline.com^
  17. CCA Global Partners. Press release: The Biking Solution Announces Formation of New Member-Owned Co-op February 2, 2009, retrieved April 2, 2009^
  18. Home thebikecooperative.com^
  19. Home lighting-one.com^