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Top 23 Consumer cooperatives based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 50 consumer cooperatives headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 3,191 professional contacts across them, including 1,201 with verified work emails. Glasgow is the largest hub.
This list covers consumer cooperatives headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 23 largest consumer cooperatives based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 909 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe in doing things differently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 719 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We got started because we felt there was a better way of doing business; one that would make a difference for its customers and the communities that we live in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 587 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lincolnshire Co-operative (known as Lincolnshire Co-op) is an independent consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom and is a registered Co-operative and Community Benefit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Chelmsford Star.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IPC EMEA (formally IPC Europe) was formed in 2001 to enable Subway Franchisees to benefit from the discounts that come from purchasing and supplying products in large volumes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Specialist distributors in vegetarian, organic, fairtrade, natural and fine foods in the UK and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At AF, we’ve been dedicated to buying better, together for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the voice of the UK’s co-operative movement, we empower and support co-operative enterprise with specialised knowledge and expertise, to grow the co-operative economy and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1894, BATA, known formally as Brandsby Agricultural Trading Association, was created as a farmer’s cooperative and retains this structure today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the few truly independent co-operative retailers and sit at the heart of the communities in which we serve across the retail estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Camgrain is a farmer-owned co-operative, established in 1983.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leeds Credit Union is a financial cooperative with members that provides straightforward, affordable financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Woldmarsh is a leading farmers’ co-operative, with over 1,100 members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Bako Wales, we pride ourselves on being a trusted and cost-effective organisation that supplies independent and multi site food industry businesses across Wales and in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unicorn Grocery is a company based out of 89 Albany Rd, Manchester, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Portadown Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial organisation- owned by its members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From carrots to cleaning products or a convection oven, we help businesses to buy better every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GREENDALE CARPETS AND FLOORINGS LIMITED is a carpet buying cooperative based out of GREENDALE HOUSE, WHITESTONE BUSINESS PARK, WHITESTONE, HEREFORD, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Utility Warehouse, we're different from the rest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have been trading in wholefoods since 1978.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strength Through Co-operation Founded in 1966, the Sterling Supergroup is a true member’s buying co-operative, with 36 wholesalers and an annual turnover in excess of £500 million.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tayforth Machinery Ring is a company based out of United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CLEVER SUPERMARKET Powered by CLEVER Health Ltd The core purpose of Clever Supermarket is to provide a responsible, ethical and not for profit focus upon a "cooperative discount…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: consumer cooperatives. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names consumer cooperatives.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of consumer cooperatives, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name consumer cooperatives. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Consumer cooperatives based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 50 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among consumer cooperatives, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “consumer cooperatives”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names consumer cooperatives), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among consumer cooperatives, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,201 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names consumer cooperatives, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many consumer cooperatives are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 50 consumer cooperatives headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Central Co-Op, headquartered in Lichfield, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most consumer cooperatives?
Glasgow leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Coventry (2) and London (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,201 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 50 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.