navigation search not to be confused with central england co operative . heart of england co operative society limited type consumer co operative industry retail wholesale founded 1832 headquarters 22 abbey street nuneaton warwickshire cv11 5bu key people ali kurji chief executive products grocer department store funeral director travel agent sub post office website www.heartofengland.coop the heart of england co operative society is an independent consumer co operative in the united kingdom . based in nuneaton the society trades in the english counties of west midlands warwickshire leicestershire and northamptonshire . registered under the co operative and community benefit societies act 2014 1 the society is a member of co operatives uk formerly the co operative union the co operative group formerly co operative wholesale society and its national buying scheme the co operative retail trading group . contents 1 history 2 activities 3 non food closure 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit see also history of the cooperative movement the heart of england co operative society traces its origins to the lockhurst lane industrial co operative society founded by ribbon makers in the parish of foleshill coventry in 1832 . in 1968 lockhurst lane merged with the coventry and district co operative society which had been formed as the coventry perseverance co operative society in 1867 . originally founded in 1844 east mercia co operative society was the product of a series of mergers most recently between the nuneaton and atherstone district co operative society and the hinckley and barwell co operative society in 1980 . 2 the two businesses merged in 1992 forming the coventry and east mercia co operative society before adopting the heart of england name in 2000 . 3 activities edit according to the international co operative alliance a co operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise . 4 today the society operates the co operative food . the seven home and living stores are being phased out and will soon be sold . the co operative funeralcare and two heart of england co operative travel branches . four of its food stores also contain a post office counter . membership is open to all residents of its trading area with members receiving a share of the profits in the form of dividend . non food closure edit in september 2015 it was announced that the society was to close all of its non food division the first store closure was its coventry home and living store which closed on the 24 october 2015 . the rest of the non food stores are due to close within the 12 months from september 2015 . 5 see also edit british co operative movement credit unions in the united kingdom references edit registered in england and wales no. 2399r notice of cancellation pursuant to section 16 of the industrial and provident societies act 1965 london gazette no. 48272 p. 11166 6 august 1980 notice of cancellation pursuant to section 16 of the industrial and provident societies act 1965 london gazette no. 53003 p. 12700 28 july 1992 statement on the co operative identity definition international co operative alliance manchester 1995 news bbc . heart of england co op shutting six department stores . bbc news . bbc news . retrieved 29 october 2015 . external links edit heart of england co operative society v t e consumer co operatives in the united kingdom central england channel islands chelmsford star clydebank co operative group east of england heart of england lincolnshire midcounties the phone co op radstock scotmid southern wine society wooldale the co operative brand retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title heart of england co operative society & oldid 715345617 categories consumers co operatives of the united kingdomfuneral directors in the united kingdomcompanies established in 1832coventrydepartment stores of the united kingdom1832 establishments in englandco operatives in england navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 april 2016 at 06 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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