Tom Webb

Organization:

Saint Mary's University, Master of Management -- Co-operatives and Credit Unions

Website:

http://www.mmccu.coop

Email:

Tom.webb@smu.ca

Tom Webb is program manager for the St. Mary's University Master of Management -- Co-operatives and Credit Unions in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Articles by Tom Webb

Co-op Atlantic: End of the Saga?

Issue: #139 November - December - 2008

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In the winter of 2008 after years of organizational and market struggles, the...

Remembering Sid Pobihushchy

Issue: #128 January - February - 2007

Editor’s note: Sidney Pobihushchy died November 23, 2006, at age 74. Those who met him encountered a generous and unpretentious man, memorable for his large ears, his large smile, and his...

New Strategic Plan for CCC

Issue: #117 March - April - 2005

Almost four years ago, 28 financially troubled co-operatives in Atlantic Canada knew that struggling one by one they could not survive. Pitted against two fiercely competing multinational...

When the Weather Gets Rough, Co-ops Are Tough

Issue: #110 January - February - 2004

The late 2000 merger of 28 community-based co-operatives in Atlantic Canada was a gutsy move to maintain a co-operative alternative in as many communities. The result was Consumers Community Co-...

Canada's Co-op Atlantic

Issue: #108 September - October - 2003 Canada's Co-op Atlantic -- Showing the Way to Cooperation Among Cooperatives read more

Eastern Canada: Natural Food Co-ops See Growth, Threats

Issue: #103 November - December - 2002

Natural food co-operatives in Eastern Canada are facing many of the same opportunities and problems as their counterparts in the US. As more and more people become concerned about the quality of...

Atlantic Canada Merger After Eighteen Months

Issue: #101 July - August - 2002

The fall 2000 merger of twenty-eight of Atlantic Canada's independent co-operative societies, with thirty-three stores and mounting losses, was a shotgun wedding. The choice facing each co...

Weaving a Cloth of Many Threads

Issue: #093 March - April - 2001 ...

How does one introduce a new structure that merges many community co-operatives into one? Very, very carefully!

Atlantic Canadian Co-ops Meet Globalization, Plan Merger

Issue: #091 November - December - 2000

Thirty years ago, Atlantic Canadians got their groceries from family grocery stores supplied by family owned wholesalers and the co-operative store. The co-operatives had emerged to...