Clydebank Co-operative Society

{{Short description|Retail co-operative in Clydebank, Scotland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited

| logo = Clydebank Co-op logo.png

| type = Consumer Co-operative

| foundation = {{Start date|1881}}

| location_city = Clydebank

| location_country = Scotland, UK

| area_served = Clydebank

| members =

| industry = Retailing
Funerals
Post offices

| products =

| revenue = £14.1 million (FY 2022/23)

| operating_income =

| net_income =

| num_employees =

| homepage = {{url|https://www.realco-op.co.uk}}

}}

The Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited is the smallest consumers' co-operative in Scotland, based in the town of Clydebank near Glasgow. Along with Scotmid and The Co-operative Group, it is one of three consumer co-operative retail societies in Scotland, and the only one not merged into a regional or national society.

Unusually for co-operatives in the United Kingdom, it is not a member of Co-operatives UK. However, in its founding year of 1881, it joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.{{Cite web

|url=http://www.theclydebankstory.com/image.php?inum=TCSM00016

|title=Clydebank Co-op Board, 1881

|access-date=2008-05-10

|publisher=TheClydebankStory

|archive-date=30 October 2007

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030121909/http://www.theclydebankstory.com/image.php?inum=TCSM00016

|url-status=live

}} Before the second world war, community leader Jenny Hyslop was one of the society's organisers.{{Cite ODNB|title=Hyslop [née Reid], Janet Kerr [Jenny] (1898–1989), community activist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-54401|access-date=2021-03-17|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/54401|last1=Rafeek|first1=Neil}}

Until 2013, Clydebank Co-op had buying arrangements with the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG), a buying group managed by The Co-operative Group, the successor of SCWS, which also manages The Co-operative brand.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=http://www.crtg.coop/index.cfm/item_id:3/about_CRTG/ |year=2007 |publisher=Co-operative Retail Trading Group |access-date=2008-05-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023214349/http://www.crtg.coop/index.cfm/item_id%3A3/about_CRTG/ |archive-date=2008-10-23 }}

In 2013/2014, Clydebank Co-op left the CRTG, agreeing to buy from local wholesaler JW Filshill, and co-brand its six stores with Filshill's KeyStore brand.{{Cite web

|url=http://www.realco-op.co.uk/opening-of-new-foodstore-at-baldwin-avenue/

|title=Opening of new foodstore at Baldwin Avenue

|date=6 Sep 2013

|access-date=1 Jul 2015

|publisher=Clydebank Co-op

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085206/http://www.realco-op.co.uk/opening-of-new-foodstore-at-baldwin-avenue/

|archive-date=24 September 2015

|url-status=dead

}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.thenews.coop/49932/news/co-operatives/clydebank-co-op-withdraws-national-co-operative-buying-group/|title=Clydebank Co-op withdraws from national co-operative buying group|last=Kidd|first=Marie-Claire|work=Co-operative News|date=24 Feb 2014|access-date=1 Jul 2015|quote=Clydebank Co-operative is entering a supply agreement with Glasgow-based wholesaler JW Filshill, bringing to an end its 10-year arrangement with the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG). ... Last September, Clydebank opened its first jointly branded Clydebank Co-operative Society/KeyStore store in Glasgow’s West End. A supply and fascia rollout to Clydebank’s remaining five food outlets began this month and will continue throughout the year.|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050730/http://www.thenews.coop/49932/news/co-operatives/clydebank-co-op-withdraws-national-co-operative-buying-group/|url-status=live}}