Instead of purchasing all its pelts from wholesalers, it established its own trading outlets to obtain the raw product from Russian and Canadian trappers.

The Group operates over 5,000 retail trading outlets, employs more than 110,000 people, has an annual turnover of £13.7bn.

Physical expansion is set to continue in the remainder of the current year with 20 trading outlets, representing 100,000 sq ft on top of the existing 694,500, due to open.

Efforts are underway to market them through the usual trading outlets.

The Empire still looked secure, but the competition for new trading outlets was increasing dramatically.

The Co-op group is the largest consumer co-operative in the world and the biggest user of the Co-operative brand in its 4,500 trading outlets across the country.

The vouchers can be spent in any of The Midcounties Co-operative's trading outlets, paid into the member's share account or donated to charity.

Today, there is one dominant, national society, The Co-operative Group, a family of businesses led by its principles and owned by its members, with over six million members and 4,500 trading outlets.

Used to be a trading outlet for the Corians when they held what's now the west of Nordwei.

The little hunting party wound its way up the easy slope leading away north from Boldhaven Bay and the city of Seaguard, Coramonde's primary trading outlet on the Central Sea.