Shepley Industrial and Provident Society was a small

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based in the

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village of

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. The Society, which was founded in 1852, operated a single co-operative foodstore on Station Road. A registered

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, Shepley Industrial and Provident Society was a corporate member of the

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(formerly Co-operative Wholesale Society) and its national buying scheme, the

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. In August 2013, the Society was wound-up and its assets transferred to the

Midlands Co-operative Society Midlands Co-operative Society Limited was the second largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It was a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union, the Co-operative Retail Trading Group and a corpo ...

.Kidd, Marie-Clair
Review of the Year: Village co-op society gives up independence after 150 years
Co-operative News, 28 December 2013 This became

Central England Co-operative Central England Co-operative, trading as Central Co-op, is a regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom, based in Lichfield and which trades from over 400 sites across the English Midlands and East Anglia. The business is owned and de ...

in January 2014.

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