Co-operative Retail Services (Great Britain)

found: Co-operative Group Web site, Nov. 6, 2003(in 1863 a group of retail societies registered the North of England Co-operative Society; in 1872 the group became the Co-operative Wholesale Society; in 1973 the SCWS (Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society) merged with CWS; in 2000 CWS and CRS [Co-operative Retail Services] merged; in 2001 the society changed its name to the Co-operative Group)

found: Care Four (UK) Ltd.: Co-operative Retail Services Ltd. Web site, Nov. 6, 2003(Created in 1934, the Co-operative Retail Services Ltd became the nations largest retail co-operative)

found: Its Report & accounts : year ended 25th January 1986:t.p. (Co-operative Retail Services Ltd) p.2 (registered office: 29 Dantzic Street, Manchester M4 4BA) ; 1997: cover (Co-operative) p.2 of cover (registered office: Sandbrook Park, Sandbrook Way, Rochdale, Lancashire OL11 1SA) p.1 (independent retail co-operative with food and department stores as well as a funerals service and car dealerships) p.4 of cover (Co-operative Retail Services Limited) ; 1988: p.1 (C.R.S.)

found: Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited. Board's report and balance sheet : for the year ended 8th January 1966:p.12 (Co-operative Retail Services Limited, an associated organisation)

found: Mutuals Public Register website, viewed 30 Nov. 2017(Co-operative Retail Services Limited; Rochdale; registered on: 11 Sep 1934; deregistration date: 13 Apr 2000)

found: Archive Wales website, viewed 30 Nov. 2017:under Swansea University. Abergavenny and District Co-operative (in 1934 the CWS Retail Co-operative Society Limited was set up; renamed Co-operative Retail Services Limited in 1957)

found: The cooperative business movement, 1950 to the present, 2012:p.231 (the Co-operative Retail Society (CRS) was formed in 1934 (originally called CWS Retail Society Limited), a separate retail unit partly owned by the Co-operative Wholesale Society)

found: Wikipedia, viewed 30 Nov. 2017(Co-operative Retail Services; CRS; consumer co-operative society in the United Kingdom; originally CWS Retail [Services]; in 1933, CWS formed a retail division tasked with taking over failing retail consumer co-operatives, and setting up shop in new areas; demerged to form Co-operative Retail Services during 1957; in 2000, CRS was merged back into CWS to form The Co-operative Group)