Inside India’s Most Powerful Business Network That Nobody Talks About

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Inside India's Most Powerful Business Network That Nobody Talks About

PERSON: Ghanshyam Das Birla PERSON: Harsh Mariwala PERSON: Thomas Timberg ORGANIZATION: Marico ORGANIZATION: Confederation of Indian Industry ORGANIZATION: Aditya Birla Group ORGANIZATION: Bajaj Group LOCATION: Rajasthan LOCATION: Shekhawati LOCATION: Calcutta <p>Thirty-seven families from a narrow strip of arid land in northern Rajasthan hold stakes across India's most valuable listed companies, with combined market capitalizations that … Read more

Why the World’s Largest Economies Are Quietly Embracing Cooperatives Again

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Why the World's Largest Economies Are Quietly Embracing Cooperatives Again

The Mondragon Corporation — a worker-owned industrial empire headquartered in the Basque Country of Spain — generates over €12 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 80,000 people, yet most economics departments spent three decades treating it as a curiosity rather than a model worth replicating. That indifference is ending, and the reasons reveal … Read more

The Village That Decided to Compete With MNCs — and Won

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The Village That Decided to Compete With MNCs — and Won

When the farmers of Anand — a small, dust-settled town in Gujarat, India — formed a dairy cooperative in 1946, they collectively processed just 247 liters of milk a day, owned no refrigeration equipment, and had no brand anyone had ever heard of. The company they were about to challenge, Polson Dairy, had British colonial … Read more

How a Group of Fishermen in Kerala Became Millionaires Together

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How a Group of Fishermen in Kerala Became Millionaires Together

Off the coast of Thiruvananthapuram, fishermen were losing money every single morning — not because the fish had disappeared, but because they had no idea where to sell them. That changed in 2007, and what followed quietly became one of the most extraordinary wealth stories in modern India. I first heard this story from an … Read more

You Use Cooperative Products Every Single Day Without Realising It

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You Use Cooperative Products Every Single Day Without Realising It

The butter I spread on toast this morning came in a Land O’Lakes package. The cranberry juice in my fridge was made by Ocean Spray. The news story I read at breakfast was filed through the Associated Press. Every single one of those brands is a cooperative — owned not by Wall Street shareholders, but … Read more