A Worker-consumer hybrid cooperative is, as the name implies, a mix of the two more common forms of cooperatives, the

worker cooperative A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and self-managed by its workers. This control may mean a firm where every worker-owner participates in decision-making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one in which management is elected by ...

and the

consumer cooperative 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 f ...

. In this type of cooperative the power is divided between the workers and consumers. This could for example the cooperative's board of directors, where the consumers and workers would elect a given number of people to the board each. An example of such a cooperative is

Eroski Eroski is a Spanish supermarket chain with nearly 1,000 outlets spread across Spain (excluding franchises). It is run as a worker-consumer hybrid co-operative within the Mondragón Corporation group. The establishments vary in size from the la ...

, a part of the Spanish Mondragon Corporation group which operates supermarkets and petrol stations around the whole nation and in particular in the Basque country from where the company originates. Worker-consumer cooperatives are forms of multi-stakeholder cooperatives. Multi-stakeholder cooperatives on Cultivate.Coop http://cultivate.coop/wiki/Multi-stakeholder_cooperatives#Worker_Consumer_Hybrid

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