Central England Co-operative

Central England Co-operative Limited

Trade name	Central Co-op
Company type	Consumer co-operative
Industry	Groceries, petrol stations, funeral care, floristry, Coffin manufacturing
Predecessor	Anglia Co-operative Midlands Co-operative
Founded	2013; 11 years ago (2013) (Original society founded in 1854)
Headquarters	Central House, Queen Street, Lichfield, WS13 6QD , United Kingdom
Area served	The Midlands, East of England, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and parts of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Wiltshire
Key people	Elaine Dean (President, Board of Directors) Debbie Robinson (Chief Executive)
Revenue	£961.4 million (18/19)[1]
Operating income	£11.9 million (18/19)
Net income
Members	330,000 Active (18/19)
Number of employees	7,200 (2020/21)
Website	Official website

Central England Co-operative, trading as Central Co-op, is a regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom, based in Lichfield and which trades from over 400 sites across the English Midlands and East Anglia. The business is owned and democratically controlled by its members who can stand for election to the board and who also share in the society's profits. A proportion of the profits of the business are also invested in local community groups through its community dividend grants programme and its more than 60 member classes.

The Society's key businesses are its 280 foodstores and over 175 funeral directors which mostly trade using the 2008 version of The Co-operative brand. The co-operative also has 9 florists, three stonemasonry outlets, a coffin factory and crematorium; it has 1,731,005 members (including over 329,000 regular trading members) and 8,600 employees (figures as January 2017).^[2]

Registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, Central England Co-operative is the second largest independent retail co-operative in the UK and was formed in 2014 following the 2013 merger of the Anglia Regional and Midlands Co-operative societies. The society has a permanent seat on the board of Co-operatives UK; it is a corporate member of The Co-operative Group, the largest consumer co-operative in the world and the national buying group, Co-operative Federal Trading Services.