“Trade, Community and the Climate Emergency – why co-operation is the only response” – Steve Murrells 

This morning CEO Steve Murrells gave a speech to an audience MPs, senior civil servants and fellow business leaders about why co-operation must be central to how we respond to the greatest challenges we face today. Read what he had to say.

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We’re celebrating 175 years of the Co-op by looking to our future

Today we’re celebrating the 175th birthday of the world-wide co-operative movement. Read more from CEO Steve Murrells on who we are, where we’ve come from and a look ahead.

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We’re the first UK retailer to pledge to meet the United Nations’ climate target by 2050 – but we’ll need political will and real co-operation to get there

At the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit in New York this week, our Co-op has been announced as the first British retailer to become a signatory of the UN’s ‘Our Only Future’ campaign. Steve Murrells
Co-op CEO shares more.

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As we publish our annual results, co-operation has never looked more relevant

This morning we published our annual results for 2018 and set out the progress we’ve made in the first year of our Stronger Co-op and Stronger Communities ambition.

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The Co-op’s role in the Great War still inspires us today

This weekend our nation will come together to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. CEO, Steve Murrells shares how our colleagues of yesterday responded to the challenges of the Great War and how we’re thinking about what lessons we can learn from our forebears.

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There are over 4,000 new local causes to choose

Co-op Group CEO, Steve Murrells shares more about the 4,000 local causes that have just become part of the Local Community Fund #TheCoopWay

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We’re telling politicians there’s a better way of doing business

With the party political conference season underway, we’re drawing attention to the significance of social enterprise.

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