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a digital world ... 150 years of Co-operatives UK ... Interview: Erskine Holmes ... Co-operative Commission results ISSN 0009-9821 01 9 770009 982010 THIS ISSUE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Latina trans beauty co-op being set up in New York (p36-37); Phil Ponsonby speaking at Midcounties’ Regional Communities event (p44-45); Co-ops rally around those affected by Australia’s bush fires (p16-17); Ethical challenges for co-ops in the modern retail world (p5, 38-41) news Issue #7316 FEBRUARY 2020 Connecting, championing, challenging FEBRUARY 2020 CO-OPERATIVE RETAIL Ethical challenges in the modern world Plus … Credit Unions in COVER: It’s a new decade, but the issues that have dominated the past few years are still there – for the retailers as much as the rest of us. How are co-op retailers responding the new ethical challenges of the 2020s? Read more: p38-45 £4.20 www.thenews.coop 22-23 MEET ... CHRIS MATTHEWS The East of England store manager and director who is passionate about member engagement 25-27 INTERVIEW: ERSKINE HOLMES We speak with the Northern Ireland co-operative stalwart as he turns 80 28-29 CONFERENCE PREVIEWS What’s in store at the Co-operative Futures event and Co-op Retail Conference? 30-31 CREDIT UNION CONFERENCE 2020 Keeping up in a digital world 32-33 A CO-OPERATIVE GREATER MANCHESTER The results of the recent co-operative commission calls for support for workers, housing transport 34-35 FIGHTING INEQUALITY An alternative campaign looking to create a more equal society 36-37 TRANS WOMEN’S WORKER CO-OPERATIVE The Latina trans women starting a beauty co-op in New York 38-41 RETAIL & ETHICS Ethical challenges for co-ops in the modern retail world 42-43 RETAIL & INNOVATION Reinventing retailing: case studies from Coop Sweden and Coop Italia 44-45 RETAIL & COMMUNITIES How Midcounties’ Regional Communities work is making a local difference 46-47 150 YEARS OF CO-OPERATIVES UK Celebrating a century and a half of the UK apex body REGULARS 5-13 UK updates 14-21 Global updates 24 Letters 48 Reviews 4 | FEBRUARY 2020
NEWS GROUP Co-op Group announces home delivery expansion and launches new vegan range The Co-op Group is planning a major expansion of its same-day delivery services across the UK, alongside its big rollout of vegan products. The retailer will offer same-day online city-centre deliveries from 650 stores and has taken a bite out of the growing meat-free food market with an exclusive new brand, Gro, which launched in early January and is available at up to 6,000 Coop and independent stores. The vegan range meets the growing demand for vegetarian and plant-based alternatives, as research from the Group’s Ethical Consumerism report reveals that the market has topped £1bn for the first time ever and has more than doubled in the last 20 years, up from £452m in 1999. In just 12 months, vegetarian product sales have risen by over 12% and non-dairy milk alternatives have seen a 14% growth. Jo Whitfield, CEO of Co-op Food, said: “At Co-op, we make it easier to get products when you need them and we stay close to our customers’ changing requirements. “We have to provide fantastic products and services with strong ethics and a purposeful focus on convenience. Our new vegan range taps into the latest consumer trends and our online services meet the growing appetite for fast home deliveries.” Over the next 12 months, the Group’s online same-day delivery services will be available across almost 100 towns and cities. The rollout includes services from the retailer’s online shop.coop.co.uk store, which uses low emissions transport including eco-friendly bikes. The service is currently available in London and Manchester and is now expanding to cities including Brighton, Bournemouth and Southampton. The online shop will available from around 250 stores. The Group will also expand its partnership with Deliveroo, which provides on-demand delivery of convenience grocery essentials in under 30 minutes. Ordering through Deliveroo will be extended to 400 stores, reaching around 100 major towns and cities. The Gro vegan range will be included in the online offer. It features over 35 plantbased products and will be stocked in 2,000 stores and up to 4,000 independent retailers through the Group’s wholesale operation, Nisa. It is believed to be the largest ever product rollout of own-brand vegan products by a supermarket and takes the Group’s total food and wine vegan range to over 1,000 products. In addition, all of the retailer’s beer and cider range will become vegan in 2020; it already offers almost 120 vegan wines. Gro dishes include plant-based versions of chilli con carne, sticky toffee pudding, steak bake, a Kashmiri pizza featuring cauliflower and vegan cheese. u Read more on the state of co-operative retail: p38-45 FEBRUARY 2020 | 5
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