CDS: supporting and developing co-operative enterprise across Scotland
What's here for you?
With shared business ethics, the co-operative approach is relevant and influential.
Find out more about co-ops, who we are and what we do to help start-up and existing co-ops, and our research and promotion activities. Read the many success stories of co-operative trading in Scotland.
Dramatic economic impact… From John Lewis to Loch Fyne Oysters, co-operatives and employee-owned businesses are already widespread and highly successful in Scotland. Over 400 co-ops and mutual societies employ 22,000 people and produce a combined annual turnover of £4 billion. Worldwide, the livelihoods of 3 billion people - half the planet's population - are made secure by co-operative enterprise, with 800 million members.