Clydebank Co-operative Society

Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited

Type	Consumer Co-operative
Founded	1881 (1881)
Headquarters	Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Area served	Clydebank
Key people	Robert Sider, Chief Executive
Industry	Retailing Funerals Post offices
Revenue	£16,500,000

The Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited is the smallest consumers' co-operative in Scotland, based in the town of Clydebank near Glasgow. Along with Scotmid and The Co-operative Group, it is one of three co-operative retailers in Scotland, and the only one not merged into a regional or national society.

Unusually for co-operatives in the United Kingdom, it is not a member of Co-operatives UK. However, in its founding year of 1881, it joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.^[1] In the 21st century, Clydebank Co-op has buying arrangements with the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG), a buying group managed by The Co-operative Group, the successor of SCWS, which also manages The Co-operative brand.^[2]

Stores

The Society currently operates six food stores ranging from just over 6,500 square  feet at Dunn Street, to its smallest, 1,800 square feet (170 m²), at Great Western Road.

• 2141/2143, Great Western Road, Knightswood
• 2, Sylvania Way South, Clydebank
• 393, Kilbowie Road, Clydebank
• 8 Dunn Street, Dalmuir, Clydebank
• 138, Duntocher Road, Parkhall, Clydebank
• 580, Kilbowie Road, Hardgate Cross, Hardgate

See also

• British co-operative movement

References

1. ^ "Clydebank Co-op Board, 1881". TheClydebankStory. http://www.theclydebankstory.com/image.php?inum=TCSM00016. Retrieved 2008-05-10. 
2. ^ "About Us". Co-operative Retail Trading Group. 2007. http://www.crtg.coop/index.cfm/item_id:3/about_CRTG/. Retrieved 2008-05-13. 

External links

• Clydebank Co-op Board, 1881
• Clydebank Co-op Charabanc, 1922
• TheClydebankStory: history and photographs of Co-op enterprises – via Google