Hello and welcome to ICOS - Promoting and Developing Commercial Co-operative Enterprise in Ireland.
This is our interim website. Our full website will be launching in early 2012.
This is our interim website. Our full website will be launching in early 2012.
The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) is a co-operative umbrella organisation that serves and promotes commercial co-operative businesses and enterprise across multiple sections of the Irish economy.
Our mission is: Generating leadership, competitiveness and value through stronger co-operation and world class service.
Within ICOS we aim to embrace the pioneering, innovative and tenacious spirit of our founding members to help strengthen our co-operatives operating in today's commercial and competitive world. Our core values are vision, leadership and value.
ICOS member co-operatives collectively have over 150,000 individual members, employ >12,000 people in Ireland (a further 24,000 abroad) and has combined turnover of €10 billion. Starting from agriculture co-op roots, and the vision of our founding President, Sir Horace Plunkett in 1894; ICOS today has evolved to serve the co-operative sector in seven core categories, namely:
Advisory and Education Related Co-ops
Community Oriented, Culture & Leisure Co-ops
Food, Fishing & Beverage Co-ops
Livestock Sector Co-ops
Multipurpose Dairy Co-ops
Store, Trade & Wholesale Co-ops
Service Related Co-ops
Our mission is: Generating leadership, competitiveness and value through stronger co-operation and world class service.
Within ICOS we aim to embrace the pioneering, innovative and tenacious spirit of our founding members to help strengthen our co-operatives operating in today's commercial and competitive world. Our core values are vision, leadership and value.
ICOS member co-operatives collectively have over 150,000 individual members, employ >12,000 people in Ireland (a further 24,000 abroad) and has combined turnover of €10 billion. Starting from agriculture co-op roots, and the vision of our founding President, Sir Horace Plunkett in 1894; ICOS today has evolved to serve the co-operative sector in seven core categories, namely:
