Welcome to the home of New Zealand's co-operatives and mutuals
Get involvedNew Zealand is home to a diverse range of member-owned businesses that sit across almost every sector. Cooperative Business NZ ensures they continue to prosper and thrive for generations to come.
What’s on
Upcoming Events and Programmes
Webinar: Getting Started with Sustainability Reporting for SMEs
Following the release of KPMG’s biennial Global Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2024 research, Cooperative Business NZ has partnered with KPMG Director Nick Swallow to present the Starter for Ten: 10 Topics for SMEs to Start Sustainability Reporting.
CBNZ Public Affairs Forum
The CBNZ Public Affairs Forum is convening in the International Year of Cooperatives 2025 to build relationships between members from all sectors and identify priority advocacy areas.
South Island Agricultural Fieldays
South Island Field Days is back in March 2025, bringing together the best in agricultural innovation, machinery, and rural expertise at its dedicated event site in Kirwee, Canterbury.
What we do
Supporting New Zealand’s co-operatives and mutuals
Advocacy & Lobbying
Advocacy & Lobbying
Let's get the collective voice of member-owner businesses heard. We engage with key officials, regulators, and decision-makers, share your stories, promote the business model and advocate for positive change.
Education
Education
Ensuring the next generation have a strong grasp of the co-operative business model and its benefits to New Zealand is crucial. We work with tertiary institutes and other industry bodies to drive educational change.
Events & Training
Events & Training
A rolling annual calendar of events and training provides the co-operative business community with ample networking, collaboration, upskilling and professional development opportunities.
Research & Insights
Research & Insights
Working with partners in New Zealand and internationally, we deliver in-depth research, reports, data and insights. These support our advocacy efforts, are used at central and local government levels, and assist members in their own strategy and business planning.
Partnerships
Partnerships
Connections with other industry bodies, ministries, education institutes, and corporate partners allow us to deliver ongoing initiatives and additional benefits for our members.
Support for Start-ups
Support for Start-ups
If you’re beginning your co-operative journey, we can assist with a comprehensive resource library to guide you in the right direction and help you tap into the wider co-operative community and our networks.
Become a member
Join some of New Zealand’s most enduring businesses
Whether you’re currently operating under co-operative principles, looking to establish one, an individual advocate for the sector, or a corporate with a unique service offering for our members, we’d love to have you onboard.
Become part of the peak body committed to ensuring the New Zealand co-operative sector thrives.
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News & Insights
A Career Rooted in Sustainability – The legacy of Dr Dirt
Dr Antony (Ants) Roberts has dedicated his career to advancing agricultural science, making a...
Measuring what matters to co-ops and mutuals – introducing the Mutual Value Measurement Framework ©
One of the greatest challenges for cooperatives and mutuals is to be able to quantify and articulate the value that your businesses create. Often the financial metrics of corporate success are not easily applied when there is a mutual business purpose.
“It’s about more than just paying out claims”
Two years ago, Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods left devastation in...
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Co-operatives and New Zealand
“Co-operative businesses have long been part of the fabric of New Zealand life. The business model is successfully applied across multiple sectors and these enduring businesses play a significant role in our nation’s economy, communities and environments.”
Saya Wahrlich, Cooperative Business NZ CEO