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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2515863" data-attributes="member: 2189">Depends on what you mean by details.&nbsp; Co-ops are all around if you look.&nbsp; I&#039;m a member of 3 co-ops.&nbsp; I joined REI, a mail order backpackers/climbers co-op in the 1970&#039;s that now has brick and mortar retail spaces and I get my electrical power from a electrical co-op.&nbsp; We are also members of a local food cooperative.Every heard of Nationwide Insurance?&nbsp; Another Co-op, <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/nationwide-mutual-insurance-company" target="_blank">see here</a> and also go to Nationwide&#039;s website and <a href="https://www.nationwide.com/why-nationwide-agribusiness.jsp" target="_blank">read about that history</a>.&nbsp; There is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cooperatives#United_States" target="_blank">list at Wikipedia of cooperatives</a>, many of those names you might even recognize. And since on the subject, what about employee owned companies?&nbsp; Here is a list of the 100 <a href="https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100" target="_blank">largest employee owned companies in the US</a>.&nbsp; Until 1998&#039; UPS was likely on such list but many of us will remember the sad day when that was no longer the case.&nbsp; My daughter works for a construction materials manufacturing company that is employee owned and she loves it.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.cisco-eagle.com/about-us/esop" target="_blank">Cisco-Eagle</a>, a materials handling manufacturer, is another employee owned/employee managed company you might check out.&nbsp; Go to their products list and see what all they produce.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.graybar.com/company/about/history/employee-ownership-sale-of-the-century" target="_blank">Graybar Electric</a> is an employee owned company that I do personal business with and we get electrical components from a subsidiary of theirs for our conveyors at UPS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2515863, member: 2189"] Depends on what you mean by details. Co-ops are all around if you look. I'm a member of 3 co-ops. I joined REI, a mail order backpackers/climbers co-op in the 1970's that now has brick and mortar retail spaces and I get my electrical power from a electrical co-op. We are also members of a local food cooperative. Every heard of Nationwide Insurance? Another Co-op, [URL='http://community-wealth.org/content/nationwide-mutual-insurance-company'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]see here[/B][/COLOR][/URL] and also go to Nationwide's website and [URL='https://www.nationwide.com/why-nationwide-agribusiness.jsp'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]read about that history[/B][/COLOR][/URL]. There is a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cooperatives#United_States'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]list at Wikipedia of cooperatives[/B][/COLOR][/URL], many of those names you might even recognize. And since on the subject, what about employee owned companies? Here is a list of the 100 [URL='https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]largest employee owned companies in the US[/B][/COLOR][/URL]. Until 1998' UPS was likely on such list but many of us will remember the sad day when that was no longer the case. My daughter works for a construction materials manufacturing company that is employee owned and she loves it. [URL='http://www.cisco-eagle.com/about-us/esop'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Cisco-Eagle[/B][/COLOR][/URL], a materials handling manufacturer, is another employee owned/employee managed company you might check out. Go to their products list and see what all they produce. [URL='http://www.graybar.com/company/about/history/employee-ownership-sale-of-the-century'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Graybar Electric[/B][/COLOR][/URL] is an employee owned company that I do personal business with and we get electrical components from a subsidiary of theirs for our conveyors at UPS. [/QUOTE]

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