Publications
Cooperatives News
Between 12 and 16 A4 pages in length, Cooperatives News is sent to directors, members, and employees of member cooperatives of the New Zealand Cooperatives Association quarterly in February, May, August and November.
It also goes to Members of Parliament, government officials, journalists and to cooperative organisations overseas.
If you’d like to go onto the Cooperatives News distribution list send an email.
Cooperatives News receives an award
In the annual cooperative communications contest at the 2009 Cooperative Communicators Association conference in Kansas City, Missouri, Cooperatives News was awarded first place in the Improved Publication category.
An interview with Cooperatives Association Executive Director Ramsey Margolis which followed this award can be found on the Cooperative Communicators Association website here.
Cooperatives NEWSFlash

A Cooperatives NEWSFlash is sent by email to the Association’s primary member contacts, councillors, associate membersand provisional when specific information needs to go out, or when what is sent out is confidential.
Guest editorials
Each Cooperatives News contains a guest editorial in which the chairperson of one member cooperative gives an outline of that co-op’s work. Here are some recent guest editorials.
- AMN Cooperative
- Birchwood Packhouse
- Canterbury Education Services Society
- Capricorn Mutual
- Composite Retail Group
- Coural – Rural Couriers Society
- EastPack
- FMG – Farmers Mutual Group
- Fonterra Cooperative Group
- Foodstuffs South Island
- Health 2000
- Interflora Pacific Unit
- Kerikeri Irrigation
- Lighthouse Lighting
- New Zealand Association of Credit Unions
- New Zealand Honey Producers Cooperative
- New Zealand Hops
- NZCU North
- Orb Communications
- Origin Agroup
- Pharmacy Wholesalers Bay of Plenty
- Pharmacy Wholesalers Central
- PPCS now Silver Fern Farms
- Primary Wool Cooperative
- Rural Service Centre
- Seasonal Solutions Cooperative
- Velexco Cooperative Group - now Provelco Cooperative
- VINZ – Vehicle Inspection New Zealand
- World Travellers





