Cooperative Business NZ, the voice for the country’s cooperatives and mutuals, is backing calls to create a fairer banking environment for smaller and specialist banks. 

Emerging Leader Ashleigh Buchanan on servant leadership, inclusion and growing people capability inside a New Zealand mutual.

This year’s awards celebrate both individuals and organisations for their contributions to the cooperative and mutual community and recognise the value it brings to New Zealand.

John Brosnan on the bioeconomy, climate innovation and why co-ops are central to Ireland’s next growth wave.

Housing affordability is a persistent challenge in New Zealand with wide-ranging economic and social impacts. This research provides one of the most comprehensive academic examinations of cooperative housing in Aotearoa New Zealand, filling a significant gap in local literature.

Capricorn Society CEO David Fraser on 50 years of cooperative relevance in the automotive sector.

Lifeline Connect Training, an organisation born from Lifeline, brings mental health and wellbeing training to your people leaders and customer-facing team members so they can safely and confidently support customers, colleagues and the community.

The International Cooperative Alliance has announced Cooperatives Build a Better World as the theme for the 2025 UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC2025), showcasing the enduring global impact cooperatives have everywhere.

It’s Cooperative Business NZ’s financial year end which is a great opportunity to provide a round-up of our past year’s activity! Here’s a wrap-up from our new CEO Saya Wahrlich.

The submission supported the intent of improving director privacy and safety, but argued that access to alternative service addresses should be available as of right. It recommended removing the requirement for directors to demonstrate harm or complete additional procedural steps in order to protect their personal address information.  

The Statement on the Cooperative Identity underpins cooperative values, principles, governance, and legal recognition worldwide. This report provides regional insight into how the Cooperative Identity is understood, expressed, communicated, and protected in Australia and New Zealand. 

The World Cooperative Monitor series is widely used to track how cooperatives and mutuals perform across economic cycles. The 2023 edition captures a post-pandemic snapshot of the global cooperative economy and provides an important reference for longitudinal analysis alongside earlier and later editions. 

The briefing sought to support early engagement between the incoming Government and the cooperative business community, and to encourage consideration of policy and regulatory settings that are fit for purpose for member-owned enterprises operating across multiple sectors. 

This case study sets out the various actions taken to enable the establishment of a co-operative, using NZ Truffle Co-operative as an example.

Professor Maryline Filippi on European co-operatives, climate policy and why co-ops are an economic model for the future.

It’s Cooperative Business NZ’s 2022-2023 financial year end which is a great opportunity to provide a year in review round-up on our past year’s activity! Here’s a wrap-up from CEO Roz Henry.

Learn more about Full Member NZPM Co-operative's sustainability journey and gain insights into how you can implement their learnings into your business's journey.

A KPMG report assessing how New Zealand cooperatives report on ESG and sustainability, and how practices compare with leading benchmarks.

LIC CEO David Chin on genetics, innovation and the cooperative backbone of New Zealand dairy.

In February 2023, we had the pleasure of hearing from Lisa Callagher, Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, in a webinar focussed on her recent award-winning research on agri co-ops and climate change.