Publications
Cooperatives News
With between 10 and 16 A4 pages, Cooperatives News is sent to directors, approved members, and approved employees of member cooperatives of the New Zealand Cooperatives Association every second month.
It also goes to Members of Parliament, government officials, journalists and cooperative organisations overseas.
If you’d like to go onto the Cooperatives News distribution list send an email.
October/November 2009 Cooperatives News
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 NZCA 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 issue of 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 examples.
- AMN Cooperative
- Birchwood Packhouse
- Canterbury Education Services Society
- Coural – Rural Couriers Society
- EastPack
- FMG – Farmers Mutual Group
- Fonterra Cooperative Group
- Foodstuffs South Island
- Interflora Pacific Unit
- Kerikeri Irrigation
- Lighthouse Lighting
- New Zealand Association of Credit Unions
- New Zealand Honey Producers Cooperative
- New Zealand Hops
- 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
- VINZ – Vehicle Inspection New Zealand


