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This is an updated presentation that our Executive Director Ramsey Margolis gave at the August 2011 Cooperative Education Seminar on how the New Zealand Cooperatives Association supports its members.
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
2 011 COO PE RATIVEE D U C ATI O N SEM I NA R
How the Cooperatives Association Supports Member Businesses
Ramsey MargolisExecutive Director
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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NEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
2 011 COO PE R ATIVEE D U C ATI O N S E M I NAR
nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Two words
• Advocacy
• Education
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Since 1984
• New Zealand Agricultural Cooperatives Association formed
• 1992 : new Companies Act left out cooperative business
• Through regional seminars wrote the Cooperative Companies Act
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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1997
• Cooperative Companies Act 1996
• NZACA changes its name
• 20 people at the 1998 AGM
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Members use...• Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1908
• Incorporated Societies Act 1908
• Friendly Societies and Credit Unions Act 1982
• Companies Act 1993
• Cooperative Companies Act 1996
• Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)
• Farmers Mutual Act 2007
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Why join?• Broader approach
• Principle of mutuality
• Cooperative + credit union + mutual
• Representing member-owned businesses of different types
Taking our cooperatives and mutuals
seriously
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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So, what have we done?
• Not everything we do is important for every member
• Watching brief on reviews of laws and regulations
• Negotiate class exemptions
• e.g. Financial adviser legislation
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Accounting Standards
• A very important issue
• Members took this very seriously
• War chest : 2007 annual subscription
• IASB / FASB / JASB merge standards
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Government
• Never an easy relationship
• Ministers are always busy
• Political parties do not understand needs of member-owned business
• “Neutrality” = blind to our needs
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Ministers & Ministries
• Minister of Commerce
• MED + MAF + MFAT + TPK
• Must not forget smaller parties
• NZdotCoop is a business association
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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• Communications – very important
• Cooperatives News – award winning
• Cooperatives NEWSFlash
• Website, with public and member areas
• Media releases, letters & articles
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Professional institutions
• “We advise our advisors”
• LawyersAccountantsCompany Secretaries
• Economic Development bodies e.g. Far North D.C.
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Co-op Advisory Group
• Pool of different skills and experience
• Cooperation among cooperatives
• Setting up new cooperatives
• Issues within existing co-ops
• Legal + accounting + structural
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Dating Agency
• Looking for a non-elected director?
• With particular skills and expertise
• Also need to know how co-ops work
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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• Branding – it’s your USP
• As well as .co.nz, not instead of
• New Zealand, Australia, China, Japan and the Pacific
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Visiting Specialists
• Overseas co-op specialists
• From North America, Australia, Europe and the UK
• Offer forums, seminars & consultancy relationships
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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International Cooperative Alliance
• Where ICA activities fit the focus of New Zealand co-ops and mutuals
• Not all the work the ICA does is useful
• IAS issues + IYC + ICBA & EACB
• business opportunities – notjust for exporters
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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UN IYC 2012
• Celebrating the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2012
• Two aspects:
• Co-ops and mutual business in general
• Your business
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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U.S.A.• National Cooperative Business
Association
• University of Wisconsin + others
• USDA – Rural Cooperatives
• Cooperative Communicators Association
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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• Individual co-ops doing well
• Except in WA, inadequate support for state associations,
• Social Business Australia
• Using the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2012
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Education• Cooperative education seminars
• Governance: The LEADing Board
• NZ tertiary institutions, e.g. Massey
• MMCCU @ St Mary’s University, Canada
• Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme
• Secondary schools
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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The words we use
• Shareholders –> Members
• Corporates –> Investor Owned Firms
• Capital restructure -> Profit restructure
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Networking Lunches
• Two in 2010, one in 2011
• Very successful – where next?
• Opportunities unavailable elsewhere
• AGM + seminars like this
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Speaking Opportunities
• Staff & member meetings at eg Capricorn Society + Fonterra + CES + Origin Agroup
• Western Farm Cooperative Forestry Co
• Federated Farmers Dairy Council + Macadamia Society + Citrus Growers
• Overseas visitors
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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So, how is this done?• Subscriptions = $220k
based on...
• Member revenue of >$39b
• 52 full members + 7 associates + 25 provisionals
• 1 full-timer + 1 part-timer
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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Other forms of income• Sell .coop domains = $2k
• The LEADing Board + seminars
• Sponsoring networking lunches
• More members – how can you help?
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nz•coopNEW ZEALAND COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION
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This is your Association
•What can your business do to support your Association?
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