Co-operative Group National Members Council South West

Sunny Angel Square Welcome to the report of the Co-ops National Council meeting held on a sunny Saturday in late September   As usual, when the sun was shining and everyone was having a great time enjoying the late September summer, I along with my one hundred fellow council members and colleagues from the Co-op were encased in the basement Auditorium of 1 Angel Square.   . Although the Council started work at 9.30 in the morning, there was an informal session with Steve Murrells the  CEO Co-op food, on  the day before. This session updated the Council the  progress of our food business and how our renewal programme “True North” was performing.Members may remember a few months ago that the Group sold many of our food stores to McColl’s as part of this strategy.   Council members had raised some concerns over this sale and  Steve and his colleague from estates came to update us and respond to our concerns. Steve explained that the sale of the stores to McColl’s were sto