Follow the links for media articles of interest about the mutual sector
Mutuals will empower public sector - Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, Guardian, 12 August 2010
Co-operatives boost turnover by 16% - Press Association 28 June 2010
£5m to foster co-op movement in Wales - Wales Online 28 June 2010
Co-op pays out record divi of £50m - Independent 17 June 2010
MSPs debate Robert Owen banknotes call - BBC News 3 June 2010
Why co-operatives are cool again – Guardian 13 May 2010
Northern Rock ’should become a mutual’ - Times 5 May 2010
Neville Richardson: A merger of mutuals in interesting times – Independent 26 April 2010
Peter Hunt on BBC Today programme at 6.52 15 December 2009
Labour to run rule over mutual model - Guardian 15 December 2009
Why Mutualism is the way forward for public services - Guardian 15 December 2009
Mary Riddell Column - Daily Telegraph 15 December 2009
Government to establish public service mutuals - Guardian 12 November 2009
Daily Telegraph 12 November 2009
Government considers remutualising Northern Rock - Guardian 4 October 2009
Rock ‘should not be sold’ - Times 27 September 2009
Government urged to mutualise Northern Rock - Financial Times 27 September 2009
Influential report calls for Northern Rock to be remutualised - Observer 26 September 2009
‘Consumer confidence in mutuals still high’ - Microsoft Business 29 May 2009
‘Britannia votes to merge with Co-operative Financial Services’- Financial Times 29 April 2009
‘Banker coins in success amid misfortunes of bigger rivals’ - The Scotsman 9 March 2009
- ‘Co-op acquires Somerfield’ (Peter Marks interview) - The Guardian 6 March 2009
‘This is the dawning of the age of the mutual’ - The Times 3 March 2009
‘Savers open 1 million new building society accounts’ - Daily Telegraph 3 March 2009
‘Britannia and Co-op merger to create super-mutual’ - Daily Telegraph 21 January 2009