The World Co-operative Monitor Explorative findings for 2010
The first pilot study of the World Co-operative Monitor was carried out with the aim of collecting economic and social data on the world’s largest co-operatives as of 2010. Both strategies outlined in the previous section were launched on an experimental basis. Through the system of online data collection, a limited number of questionnaires were received. The data for the first strategy is therefore still small in number, albeit encouraging. Other data were derived from the existing international lists and databases of local federations all over the world, integrated with the Amadeus database of Bureau van Dijk about European co-operatives, with a turnover of over USD 100 million in 2010. The World Co-operative Monitor team collected data provided by the following:
Co-operatives, Credit Unions and Mutuals by Annual Turnover) »» Co-operatives UK, UK (The Co-operative UK 100) »» Euro coop - European Community of Consumer Co-operatives and CCW - Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide »» Federcasse, Italy »» Government of Canada - Rural and Co-operatives Secretariat, Statistic Unit, Canada (Top 50 Non-financial Co-operatives in Canada in 2010) »» iCOOP Korea, Republic of Korea »» ICMIF - International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF Global500)
»» Building Societies Association, UK »» Centro Studi Legacoop, Italy
»» JCCU - Japaneese Consumer Japan (Top 10 Retail Coops in Japan)
»» CEPES - Confederación Empresarial Española de Economía Social, Spain (Informe de la Economía Social Española 2010-2011)
»» Melhores e Maiores Empresas and E-Coop Research Program on Cooperatives Organizations FEA RP USP, Brazil
»» Confecoop - Confederación de Cooperativas de Colombia, Colombia (Escalafón Cooperativo)
»» NCB - National Consumer Cooperative Bank, USA (NCB Co-op 100)
»» Coop FR - les entreprises cooperatives, France (Panorama sectoriel des entreprises coopératives - Top 100 des entreprises coopératives 2012)
»» New Zealand Cooperatives Association, New Zealand (Top 40 New Zealand Cooperatives & Mutuals) »» UCECOM - National Union of Handicraft and Production Cooperatives of Romania, Romania
»» Co-operatives Australia, Australia (Australia’s Top 100
5 the world co-operative monitor: Exploring the co-operative economy