A cooperative for the people - Khaleej Times

From a humble and small supermarket at Maysaloun, the Sharjah Cooperative Society (SCS) has grown by leaps and bounds boasting of 20 branches across the emirate. It also has an ambitious plan to set up the biggest trading and marketing complex in the UAE.

Its pioneering 20 members, chaired by Aisha Al Noman of the Sharjah Women’s Union, may not have dreamt that the SCS would grow this big in 35 years following some lean years after its establishment in 1977.

Today, the SCS has gone down in history as the first and the oldest cooperative in the UAE, and the only one in the Middle East recognised by the International Cooperative Alliance in Switzerland according to its general manager, Majid Salem Saif Al Junaid.

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