Benefits To Members

  • 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