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A World of Opportunity Declaring 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives received a rare unanimous vote from the UN General Assembly. This declaration offers a timely opportunity to promote cooperatives as a proven... |
05 Oct 2011 | #156 September - October - 2011 |
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A Year Past Reorganization Glancing back at articles in Cooperative Grocer magazine a year ago, I’m struck by how much has changed in just one year since the official reorganization of the former CGA system into the... |
21 Jan 2009 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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Abandoned Member Property Need Not Escheat to the State Virtually every state has adopted a law similar to the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act. 1 This article will outline how cooperatives have been affected by escheat laws and how one... |
09 Jan 2004 | #027 March - April - 1990 |
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Abuse -- and Answers Themes from this edition on co-op managers, their boards of directors, and co-op members: Retail management is a complex, demanding job: juggling product,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #067 November - December - 1996 |
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Accounting Best Practices Primer Now Available Accounting Best Practices for Food Co-ops: A Primer is now available, an excellent and concise (14-page) summary in four sections: balance sheet, income statement, internal control, and cash... |
15 Nov 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Accounting Best Practices: Cash Management Our vision for this accounting best practices series is to examine fundamental financial tools and best practices for co-ops that promote overall financial health and the ability to improve. In... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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Accounting Best Practices: Internal Control Summary: Our previous articles were on the balance sheet and the income statement. This article covers internal control. There will be a final article on cash management. Our vision for this... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Accounting Best Practices: Nurturing Your Income Statement Summary: our previous article was on the balance sheet, and after our review below of the income statement, a subsequent installment will cover internal controls and cash management. Our vision... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Accounting Best Practices: The Balance Sheet Can you tell me in 10 minutes what the best practices for finance are that I can use at my co-op?" This question has been repeatedly asked of us in our respective work with co-op finance managers... |
17 Nov 2011 | #157 November - December - 2011 |
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Acquisition Nearly Doubles the U.K. Cooperative Footprint! download pdf of article This July 14 the Co-operative Group in the United Kingdom purchased the Somerfield chain of 880 stores for approximately $3 billion dollars. Somerfield is the biggest... |
27 Dec 2008 | #138 September - October - 2008 |
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Act Locally Against GMOs With governments in the United States and Canada refusing to label foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), several natural food retailers are taking matters into their own hands by... |
29 Apr 2005 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Act Now on Allergens On January 1, 2006, new federal allergen labeling rules went into effect. People’s Food Co-op (La Crosse, Wis.) became aware of these new regulations on about December 15, 2005, when information... |
20 Jan 2009 | #124 May - June - 2006 |
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Adding an E-Newsletter to the Media Mix We decided to develop an e-newsletter last fall for Bloomingfoods Market and Deli, with the goal of creating an appealing monthly information clearinghouse. It wasn’t our intention to write in-... |
20 Jan 2009 | #124 May - June - 2006 |
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Adding Widgets, Blurring Accountability How does a board ensure achievement of a particular goal that’s not part of the Ends statement? Disregarding the question of whether it should do so at all, Heather Schmidt Albinger, in “Policy... |
29 Jan 2007 | #128 January - February - 2007 |
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Additional Stores: Expanding "The Co-op" Food co-ops expanding from one to two stores must navigate a challenging and perilous course. This article will explore those challenges and obstacles and suggest a course of planning and... |
19 Jan 2009 | #134 Jan - Feb - 2008 |
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Advertising: Taking the Alternate Route The very nature of the cooperative grocery business is far from the mainstream, as can be noted in the cooperative principles that guide the operation of our stores. But the... |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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Advocating for the Organic Community in the Farm Bill Organic farmers, consumers and processors all have a direct stake in the outcome of the 2008 Farm Bill. That is why National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), along with other members of the... |
19 Jan 2009 | #136 may - june - 2008 |
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After the Deluge download pdf of article The summer of 2008 brought floods to the Midwest, the likes of which have never been seen in recorded history. Unending record rainfalls washed out roads, turned farm... |
27 Dec 2008 | #138 September - October - 2008 |
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Against the Odds For 12 years, the Berkshire Co-op Market community discussed expanding its Great Barrington, Massachusetts store. Late in 2001, the board of directors began the project in earnest. A variety of... |
27 Oct 2004 | #114 September - October - 2004 |
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Against the Tide River Valley Market in Northampton, Mass., opened in 2008, early in the current wave of new food co-ops and just before the start of the economic decline. Original sales projections had River... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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Against War: A Co-op Primer Editorial: Against War |
07 Jan 2004 | #105 March - April - 2003 |
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Agile and Efficient: Board Committees and Committee Structures that Work The use of committees by boards is ubiquitous—as it should be, considering a small group’s agility when compared to a whole board. Unfortunately, boards often end up with... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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All Atwitter in Seattle Download a pdf of this article Marketing Matters 2009 took place at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle, Wash., May 12–14, walking distance from the historic Pike Place Market. This annual... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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All Your Board Can Be Whether you are a manager, staff, or a director, you will be happier and less frustrated when your co-op's board is operating smoothly. Board meetings that go on for hours,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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America Beyond Capitalism In a recent article in "Dollars and Sense," Gar Alperovitz presents cooperative enterprise, especially worker-owned co-ops, along with other methods of democratizing capital -- an essential... |
09 Jan 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
