'Own store' vision for Finnish co-op

摘要

When a group of people, half of them cotton weavers, in the mill town of Rochdale in the north of England set up their own food store selling items they could not otherwise afford, little did they know what impact their vision would have on the world of commerce. Their tiny shop provided the prototype for co-operative movements worldwide and its principle of everyone working for a common goal and good service over the pursuit of profit still thrives within such organizations.