Toasting a Co-operative Decade

07 Nov 2012

Global leaders, representing the $US2 trillion worldwide co-operative movement, toast the launch of a campaign to make co-operatives the fastest growing form of business by 2020 with co-operatively produced champagne.

Co-operatives already represent about one billion people and at the close of Co-operatives United in Manchester, global leaders urged action to create a more equal and people-centred economy across the world.

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Photo shows left to right: Dolly Goh, from the Singapore National Co-operative Federation; Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Co-operative Alliance and João Nicédio Nogueira representing more than 12,000 co-operatives across Brazil.  

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