Currently mining operations are undertaken by members of several large cooperatives who work independently or in small groups.

Also having one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in Brazil, which bears the name of the colony.

The idea is that health care consumers - all of us - will be organized into large purchasing cooperatives.

The idea of managed competition is to give consumers effective purchasing power by enrolling them in large cooperatives.

And it would encourage small employers to buy insurance through large purchasing cooperatives.

Under the plan, consumers would join together into large purchasing cooperatives.

Small companies and individuals could join large purchasing cooperatives.

Another large cooperative is the 16-story Cabrini Terrace, the highest building in the neighborhood.

The Mondragon Cooperative Group is one of the largest cooperatives in the world.

Farms often join together to form larger cooperatives.