The Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited is the smallest

consumers' co-operative A consumers' co-operative is an enterprise owned by consumers and managed democratically and that aims at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of its members. Such co-operatives operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a fo ...

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, based in the town of

Clydebank Clydebank ( gd, Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Bowling and Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Mil ...

near Glasgow. Along with

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and

The Co-operative Group Co-operative Group Limited, trading as Co-op, is a British consumer cooperative, consumer co-operative with a group of retail businesses including food retail, wholesale, e-pharmacy, insurance and legal services, and funeral care. The Co-op ...

, it is one of three consumer co-operative retail societies in Scotland, and the only one not merged into a regional or national society. Unusually for co-operatives in the

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, it is not a member of

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. However, in its founding year of 1881, it joined the

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. Before the second world war, community leader Jenny Hyslop was one of the society's organisers. Until 2013, Clydebank Co-op had buying arrangements with the

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(CRTG), a buying group managed by

, the successor of SCWS, which also manages

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. In 2013/2014, Clydebank Co-op left the CRTG, agreeing to buy from local wholesaler JW Filshill, and co-brand its six stores with Filshill's KeyStore brand.

Stores

Clydebank Co-operative, Dalmuir (geograph 4136385)

, the society operates seven food stores ranging from just over 6,500 square feet at Dunn Street, to its smallest, , at Great Western Road & Sylvania Way South, Clydebank * Great Western Road,

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* Faifley Road, Faifley * Sylvania Way South, Clydebank * Kilbowie Road, Clydebank * Dunn Street,

Dalmuir Dalmuir (; gd, Dail Mhoire) is an area northwest of Glasgow, Scotland, on the western side of Clydebank, and part of West Dunbartonshire Council Area. The name is a lowland Scots derivation of the Gaelic meaning Big Field. The area was ori ...

* Duntocher Road, Parkhall In 2014, it closed its Hardgate food store, reducing the number of its food stores from seven to six. The Hardgate store later reopened as a Co-op/KeyStore More and continues to trade.

References

External links

Clydebank Co-operative Society

Clydebank Co-op Board, 1881

Clydebank Co-op Charabanc, 1922

TheClydebankStory: history and photographs of Co-op enterprises
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Stores

See also

References

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