Radstock Co-operative Society

Radstock Co-operative Society Limited

Type	Consumer Co-operative
Industry	Retail, Agriculture
Founded	1868
Headquarters	Radstock, Somerset, United Kingdom
Area served	Somerset, England
Key people	Don Morris CEO[1]
Revenue	£15 million (2006)[1]
Members	7,500 (2007)[1]
Employees	300 (2005)
Website	radstock-co-op.com

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

The society operates a large supermarket in Radstock and eleven convenience shops in nearby areas.^[1][3] 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, notably to local cheese producer Wyke Farms in Bruton), who uses it in The Co-operative brand nationally-distributed own label organic cheddar cheese.^[4][5] It previously owned a Homemaker Furniture store, and had a turnover of £15 million in 2006.^[1] 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.^[3][6]

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 Wyke Farms, 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 7500 in 2007.

Locations

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

The store in Coleford

• Peasedown St John, 1908
• Timsbury, North Somerset, 1916
• Chilcompton, Somerset, 1919
• Chew Magna, North Somerset, 1924
• Westfield (Elm Tree Avenue), 1940s
• Radstock superstore, 1947
• Shepton Mallet, Somerset, 2008
• Glastonbury, Somerset, 2009^[7]
• Coleford, Somerset, 2009 (formerly Crossway Stores)
• Street, Somerset, 2010^[8]
• Frome, Somerset, 2011^[9]
• Westfield (Fosseway), 2012^[9]

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