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Nominate the Cooperative Action of the Year!

Nominate the Cooperative Action of the Year!

17.1.2025

What inspiring action has a cooperative, cooperative bank, or mutual insurance company recently taken? A new initiative for the benefit of the local community? A significant member benefit?

Dissertation: Finnish agricultural co-operatives are critical in appointing external members to their boards 

Dissertation: Finnish agricultural co-operatives are critical in appointing external members to their boards 

6.6.2024

Pellervo Coop Center’s Director of Cooperation Kari Huhtala’s dissertation on the governance of Finnish agricultural co-operatives shows that agricultural cooperatives are critical in appointing external experts to their boards. The number of women on these boards is also quite low and has not increased over the past ten years. The governance culture of cooperatives favors board selections from within the cooperative. 

Cooperative education and research in Finland are still limited

Cooperative education and research in Finland are still limited

23.5.2024

Despite their success, cooperatives remain an invisible giant in the education offered by higher education institutions in Finland. Finland has some professors focusing on cooperative studies and also professors of practice funded by cooperatives and mutual companies.

Pellervo’s EU Manifesto – Cooperatives are builders of a sustainable future

Pellervo’s EU Manifesto – Cooperatives are builders of a sustainable future

2.4.2024

1. Cooperatives to be taken into account in business regulation.
2. A cooperative provides a fair foundation for social and platform economies.
3. The cooperative model facilitates the reconstruction of Ukraine.
4. Cooperatives strengthen the private sector in EU external development projects.
5. Cooperative awareness must be strengthened in the EU Parliament.

First cooperative in Finland to list on a stock exchange

First cooperative in Finland to list on a stock exchange

1.9.2023

The investment cooperative Arvo from Ostrobothnia has been listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange’s First North growth market. Arvo is the first cooperative whose shares are listed on Nasdaq’s stock exchange lists in the Nordic markets.

Coop survey in Finland: awareness of cooperatives has improved

Coop survey in Finland: awareness of cooperatives has improved

19.5.2022

Understanding of what cooperation is and what cooperatives are has clearly become more widespread in recent years. It is primarily due to the improved communication of cooperative businesses themselves, not school education. Still, the vast majority (64%) of the Finnish population say they are fairly poorly or not at all familiar with cooperation.

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