Midcounties Co-operative Society

The Midcounties Co-operative Limited

Type	Consumer Co-operative
Industry	Retail (Wholesale)
Founded	2005 (1853)
Headquarters	Warwick Technology Park
Products	Food, Pharmacy, Funeralcare, Travel, Childcare, Post Office Flexible Benefits and Energy
Revenue	£1.167 billion
Number of employees	9,000
Website	www.midcounties.coop

The Midcounties Co-operative is the largest independent consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. Registered in England under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, it is a member of Co-operatives UK and the Co-operative Retail Trading Group.

The Society's principal activity is retailing in the English Midlands. Its trading groups are Food, Funeralcare, Travel, Pharmacy, Post Office, Childcare, Flexible Benefits and Energy. The Midcounties Co-operative has its headquarters in Warwickshire, with trading outlets in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Shropshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire and the surrounding counties, but also has a national trading presence through its Travel, Childcare, Energy and Flexible Benefits businesses.

As of mid 2013, Midcounties became a £1bn business with more than 500 sites and 439,000 members. In 2014 trade with members as a proportion of total sales increased to over 45%.

The Midcounties Co-operative invests in the communities in which it trades through responsible trading, local sourcing, community projects and charitable work. The co-op invested 17.6% of its 2013-2014 pre-tax profits (£1.8m) into the communities in which it trades. This figure is significantly higher than the average value for large UK co-ops (6.9%) or other rival supermarkets (2.4%). The Society was a pioneer of the Fair Tax Mark and has been ranked in the Sunday Times 25 Best Big Companies to Work For list in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.