In 1919, a special general meeting decided not to transfer the business to the Aspatria Cooperative Wholesale Society and natural growth continued.

By 1912, 200 retail societies and the Co-operative Wholesale Society had complied.

"First published in October, 1938, on the completion of seventy-five years of the Co-operative Wholesale Society limited."

He became Head of research and information of the Co-operative Wholesale Society from 1930 to 1937.

The building was head office for the Co-operative Wholesale Society, which began trading in Manchester in 1863.

By 1918, the then Co-operative Wholesale Society already farmed a total of 32,648 acres (13,212 ha) across England.

However, in its founding year of 1881, it joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.

He was group general manager of the Co-operative Wholesale Society from 1972 to 1975.

Yet by 1985 its commercial problems were such that it merged into the national Co-operative Wholesale Society.

The Cooperative Wholesale Society was formed in 1862.