Reasons to be Proud

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Reasons to be Proud
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Reasons to be Proud

• Our food sales outgrew the market Now, for 12
  consecutive quarters

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Reasons to be Proud

• We launched a new business
• Co-operative Legal Services.

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Reasons to be Proud

• We bought 60 branches and
• now have 650 funeral homes.
• We continued to expand our pharmacy
  business now the 3rd largest
  in the UK with more than 700 shops

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Reasons to be Proud

• Sales in Fairtrade Fortnight tripled and we
  added 70 new products to our range.

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Reasons to be Proud

• Consumers votedThe co-operativeBritains most
  ethicalbrand

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Reasons to be Proud

• Co-op travel was the first to enable its
  customers to offset carbon emissions from their
  holiday flights.

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Reasons to be Proud

• We rebranded 700 Food shops in 2008
• and all of the Banks ATMs.

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Reasons to be Proud

• We have at least 2,200 outlets
• rebranded by the end of 2008.

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Reasons to be Proud

• 1,000,000 new members have joined the Society
  following the relaunch of membership.
• and, we paid our members a dividend of 58
  million.

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Reasons to be Proud

• Property Division developed Coldham Wind Farm
• on Group farmland.
• 98 of our outlets are now powered by green
  electricity.

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UK's largest solar panel array
UKs largest solar project at CFS HQ Completed
May 2006 Saves around 80 tonnes of CO2 each year
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UKs largest micro-wind project
19 micro wind turbines at one of our city
centre sites Largest commercial site of micro
wind turbines in the UK The turbines will save
20 tons of CO2 per year
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Support for windfarms in Co-operative Group
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Offsetting portfolio
Pakistan household energy efficiency benefiting
17,000 people
Uganda Rainforest reforestation employing 400
people
India biogas digesters installed in 80
households. Wind turbines. Treadle pumps.
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The only one -others triedonly we had the
resultsto show
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Major, recent awards in UKs premierCSR awards
by Business in the Community
CFS given the premier award business of the
year- the only carbon negativelarge business
in the UK
the Group awardedinternational climate change
prize
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Social goals - Sustainability reporting
An overall sustainability report developed

• The Banks report achievedworld champion
  status (by the UN)
• We combined CFS and Group Reports in 2007
• This combined report aspires to CFS high
  standards
• Full disclosure of material data
• Warts and all market leader approach
• Subject to rigorous external audit

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Engaging co-operative members in climate change
campaign

• 2 million members invited to sign up to the
  climate challenge
• Climate pledge made up of 7 small changes to
  make a world of difference
• Collectively, pledges make a difference.
• Membership events held throughout the UK

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Engagement Challenging Climate Chaos

• The Banks Customers Who Care campaign with
  Friends of the Earth
• More than 16,000 customers lobbied their MP
• Every one of 636 MPs contacted by Co-operative
  Bank customers
• Unique Climate Change Law has been passed

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Reasons to be Proud

• Over 2,500 food products
• redesigned and relaunched
• focusing on premium,
• healthy and ethical ranges.
• Our farms supplying more and more products to
  our stores

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Reasons to be Proud

• The Co-operative Bank won awards for its range
  of green mortgages.
• Co-operative Insurance launched the UKs first
  eco motor insurance product.

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Reasons to be Proud

• We committed 1m to help schools
• install solar panels and wind turbines.
• The Co-operative Community Fund
• gave 1.1m to 1,800 community groups.

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Reasons to be Proud

• We have made great strides
• towards our vision of being
• The best co-operative business in the world

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Reasons to be proud

• Co-operatives are different !
• We have social purpose !
• Its sometimes hard
• But we cant give up
• The world needs us to succeed

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We must be the change we wish to see in the
world.Gandhi