Radstock Co-operative Society

Radstock Co-operative Society Limited
Consumer Co-operative
Industry Retail, Agriculture
Founded 1868
Headquarters Radstock, Somerset, United Kingdom
Area served
 Somerset, England
Key people
 Don Morris CEO[1]
Revenue £35 million (2013/14)[1]
£419,000 (2013/14)[1]
£171,000 after pension adjustments (2013/14)[1]
Total assets £12.4 million (2013/14)[1]
Members 7,000 (2014)[1]
Number of employees
 369 (2014)[1]
Website www.radstockcoop.co.uk

Radstock Co-operative Society is a small consumer co-operative, which was established in Radstock, Somerset in 1868.[2]

The society operates a large supermarket in Radstock and twelve convenience shops in nearby areas.[3][4] The supermarket has non-food departments including a travel agent, post office, furniture, clothing, electrical goods, housewares and garden supplies. The society also owns Manor Farm, an organic dairy and egg farm which supplies a substantial part of the national market for organic milk.[5][6] It previously owned a Homemaker Furniture store, and had a turnover of £15 million in 2006.[3] In the late 2000s, it began converting its stores from the 1993 dark blue Co-op cloverleaf branding, to green “The co-operative food” fascias, and acquired stores in Shepton Mallet and Coleford.[4][7]

The society participates in the British co-operative movement. As well as supplying cheese for national distribution by the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG) through a milk processor, it obtains food goods from the CRTG. It is a corporate member and shareholder of The Co-operative Group, a national business that is successor to the Co-operative Wholesale Society. It is owned and democratically controlled by its customer members, who numbered approximately 7000 in 2014.[1]

Locations

Early delivery wagon of the Radstock Cooperative Society, Taken in Radstock Museum
The store in Coleford

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Report and Financial Statements - 52 week period ending 22 February 2014 (PDF) (Report). Radstock Co-operative Society. 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 "About us". Radstock Co-operative Society. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 'New Radstock chief gears up for Tesco fight', The Co-operative News, 24 August 2007.
  4. 1 2 "Stores". Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "News: Chickens!". Radstock Co-operative Society. 2008.
  6. ↑ "News: Say cheese!". Radstock Co-operative Society. 2008.
  7. ↑ "News: 140th Anniversary". Radstock Co-operative Society. 2008.
  8. ↑ "Annual Report 2009/10". Radstock Co-operative Society. p. 3.
  9. ↑ "Annual Report 2010/11" (PDF). Radstock Co-operative Society. p. 16.
  10. 1 2 "Annual Report 2011/12" (PDF). Radstock Co-operative Society. p. 18.
  11. ↑ "Farrington Gurney Convenience Store Now Open". Radstock Co-operative Society. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
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