HR Execs on the Move

Our founders were paying homage to a collective of 28 weavers and other artisans in Rochdale, England, who, in 1844, got together to purchase food. The Rochdale Pioneers weren`t the first group to form a buying co-op, but they were the first to make their co-op succeed and endure. To avoid the mistakes made by earlier cooperative societies and to help others, they developed a list of operating principles governing their organization.