CO OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN DENMARK

• Father of co operative movement in Denmark is H C Soune

• Denmark is the birth place of Dairy cooperative society 

• Denmark known as the Dairy farm of Europe 

• Co operation began in Denmark in the year 1882

• Denmark is the birth place of agricultural  co operatives

• In Denmark there is no co operative legislation 

• Voluntary co operative movement was started by producers and  consumers in  Denmark 

• The Royal Agricultural Society was founded in 1769 at Denmark 

• The first co operative store in Denmark established in 1866

• The dairy products of co operatives in Denmark were sold under the trade name LURBRAND 

• In Denmark sales was effected through a central society called as DAAG

• In Denmark, the workers undertake an insurance society it is called as ALKA

• The origin of Folk High School is from Denmark

• Founder of Folk High School is NFS Gruntwig

• Nordic Co operative Union is the joint purchasing organization for the consumer co operatives in Denmark 

• The Danish co operative wholesale society was FDB