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Farmer-Rick

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8. The world's largest coop is in Spain

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2026, 08:44 PM

5 hrs ago

The Mondragon Corporation in the Basque region is Spain's—and the world's—largest and most successful worker-owned cooperative. Founded in 1956, it operates a massive network of over 90 autonomous co-ops with more than 70,000 employees and €11+ billion in annual revenue.

They offer help to others who want to start a worker owned corporation. It's a fascinating successful structure that proves most capitalist claims about the failure of socialist businesses wrong.

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We Went To Nebraska. What We Found Could Unrig The Economy. [View all] bucolic_frolic 7 hrs ago OP

Worker owned businesses are the most efficient multigraincracker 6 hrs ago #1

Because you'll never do anything as well, nor watch the money so closely, bucolic_frolic 6 hrs ago #2

An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is an option. PufPuf23 6 hrs ago #3

Get rid of the eclipses at the end and put in an "m" Bristlecone 5 hrs ago #4

The link is quite an extended one so I didn't wish to include it. bucolic_frolic 5 hrs ago #6

But large equity still owns part of the business and returns accrue to those investors, not the workers. bucolic_frolic 5 hrs ago #7

Offered ESOP as an alternative and step towards worker equity and security. PufPuf23 4 hrs ago #10

Owner owned provides better service FrndStrng 5 hrs ago #5

The world's largest coop is in Spain Farmer-Rick 5 hrs ago #8

Co-ops and socialism are not synonymous ToxMarz 5 hrs ago #9

This almost made it back in the 70s Figarosmom 4 hrs ago #11

Link not working masmdu 4 hrs ago #12