Clydebank Co-operative Society

Retail co-operative in Clydebank, Scotland

Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited

Company type	Consumer Co-operative
Industry	Retailing Funerals Post offices
Founded	1881 (1881)
Headquarters	Clydebank , Scotland, UK
Area served	Clydebank
Revenue	£14.1 million (FY 2022/23)
Website	www.realco-op.co.uk

The Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited is the smallest consumers' co-operative in Scotland, based in the town of Clydebank near Glasgow. Along with Scotmid and The Co-operative Group, it is one of three consumer co-operative retail societies in Scotland, and the only one not merged into a regional or national society.

Unusually for co-operatives in the United Kingdom, it is not a member of Co-operatives UK. However, in its founding year of 1881, it joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.^[1] Before the second world war, community leader Jenny Hyslop was one of the society's organisers.^[2]

Until 2013, Clydebank Co-op had buying arrangements with the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG), a buying group managed by The Co-operative Group, the successor of SCWS, which also manages The Co-operative brand.^[3]

In 2013/2014, Clydebank Co-op left the CRTG, agreeing to buy from local wholesaler JW Filshill, and co-brand its six stores with Filshill's KeyStore brand.^[4]^[5]

Stores

As of 2015^[update], the society operates seven food stores ranging from just over 6,500 square feet at Dunn Street, to its smallest, 1,800 square feet (170 m²), at Great Western Road & Sylvania Way South, Clydebank

Great Western Road, Knightswood
Faifley Road, Faifley
Sylvania Way South, Clydebank
Kilbowie Road, Clydebank
Dunn Street, Dalmuir
Duntocher Road, Parkhall^[6]

In 2014, it closed its Hardgate food store,^[7] reducing the number of its food stores from seven to six. The Hardgate store later reopened as a Co-op/KeyStore More and continues to trade.

References

^ "Clydebank Co-op Board, 1881". TheClydebankStory. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
^ Rafeek, Neil (2004). "Hyslop [née Reid], Janet Kerr [Jenny] (1898–1989), community activist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54401. Retrieved 17 March 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "About Us". Co-operative Retail Trading Group. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2008.
^ "Opening of new foodstore at Baldwin Avenue". Clydebank Co-op. 6 September 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
^ Kidd, Marie-Claire (24 February 2014). "Clydebank Co-op withdraws from national co-operative buying group". Co-operative News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2015. Clydebank Co-operative is entering a supply agreement with Glasgow-based wholesaler JW Filshill, bringing to an end its 10-year arrangement with the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG). ... Last September, Clydebank opened its first jointly branded Clydebank Co-operative Society/KeyStore store in Glasgow's West End. A supply and fascia rollout to Clydebank's remaining five food outlets began this month and will continue throughout the year.
^ "Our food stores". Clydebank Co-op. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
^ "Hardgate Branch Closure". Clydebank Co-op. 28 November 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015. we will close our Hardgate branch on January 11th 2014.