- Consumer co-ops -- provide retail products and services for
their customer members
- Purchasing co-ops -- purchase products and services in bulk to
reduce or share costs for individual or organizational members
- Marketing co-ops -- build markets for members products and
services, improve member bargaining power, facilitate delivery of
products to market, and improve product quality
- Value-added Processing Co-ops -- add value to members products
to increase members share of retail mark-ups
- Worker co-ops -- provide jobs for their members and services
for their communities