The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) was formed around this time in 1895, and since 1927 it has observed the first Saturday of July as International Day of Co operatives to highlight the contribution that co-operatives make across the world. Cooperatives are people-centred enterprises owned, controlled and run by and for their members to realise their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations. Co-ops range from small-scale to multi-million dollar businesses in over 100 countries across the globe, employ more than 100 million people and have more than 800 million individual members.

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