Mondragon wins Financial Times ‘Boldness in Business’ award

01 October 2013

Mondragon, is the world’s largest worker-owned industrial co-operative and the top Basque region industrial group, ranked tenth in Spain with 80,000 personnel, a presence in 70 countries. It is the winner of the 2013 Financial Times “Boldness in Business” award.

It has also agreed to partner and build co-operative stakeholder businesses in local living economies throughout America with the U.S. based National Cooperative Bank.

Read ‘Laboral Kutxa (the Mondragon Bank) and National Cooperative Bank (NCB) to Partner in Growing Domestic Worker-Owned Cooperatives’

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