16 December 2013
The Guardian has interviewed Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, Ed Mayo
What do you hope to achieve in the coming year?
“Our job over the next year is to champion the reputation of the co-operative business model. That’s both something that we find easy to do in the sense that we’re inspired by our members up and down the country, but it’s also urgent to do in the context of the challenges faced by the Co-operative Bank.
What’s happened to one co-operative shouldn’t affect 6,000 co-operatives. So our core focus and role is essentially to champion a better understanding of the co-operative and mutual model of business.”
Read the full interview with Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, Ed Mayo, in The Guardian, 13 December
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