Stores & Trade

Overview

Two co-operative organisation with connections to ICOS play an important role in this area: the Co-op Source Agritrading Brand and the Plunkett Foundation.

Co-op Source Agritrading Brand

ICOS helps facilitate a purchasing group comprising 18 co-ops with total purchases of in excess of €23m. The ‘Co-op Source’ branded product groupings have a compliment of seven product groupings under its brand these;

• Crop packaging
• Animal mineral supplements
• Dairy detergents
• Clothing
• Grass seeds
• Milking machine filter socks
• Cow teat foam sanitizer

The purchasing group’s membership extends throughout the country. The group is headquartered in the ICOS office in Cork.

The Plunkett Foundation

Our ‘cousins’ in the Plunkett Foundation have helped develop more than 270 community-owned shops and co-operative pubs across the UK.

The founder of ICOS, Sir Horace Plunkett started the Plunkett Foundation in Ireland and England. The Plunkett Foundation continued to promote and develop agricultural co-operatives and rural community enterprise, with the slogan ‘Better Farming, Better Business, Better Living’.