We offer ideological support and function  both as a service center and an opinion leader within the cooperative.   In recent years hundreds of new smaller cooperatives (about 1100 in the beginning of 1998) have begun their own work towards the solving of the many issues concerning working life and services and marketing, as well as other issues dealing with the business world in general. Our cooperative philosophy is to do business within our society of networks in a personalized manner.
    Web sites for new cooperatives.
   One of our most important tasks is to give support to our member organizations locally, nationally and internationally. We have six cooperative associations that help us in accomplishing this.


The Pellervo Confederation of Finnish Cooperatives
member associations are as follows:
cooperative retail societies
cooperative dairies and milk selling cooperatives
co-operative banks
cooperative slaughterhouses
sawmill, mill, electricity and machinery cooperatives
phone company cooperatives
insurance associations
farmer and other associations
Finlands Svenska Andelsförbund
Finnish Animal Breeding Group
    and it´s 5 cooperatives belonging to this group
The Insurance Group
Metsäliitto Cooperative
The Egg Producers Cooperative
Cooperative banking Group
Valio and Cooperative Dairies
   about 340 member organizations in total (1.1.2010)


The Pellervo Confederation of Finnish Cooperatives
member companies are as follows:

Valio and cooperative dairies
Cooperative slaughterhouses
The Animal Breeding Group
The Egg Producers' Group Munakunta
The Metsäliitto Cooperative
Cooperative Banks
The Local Insurance Group

Valio and Cooperative Dairies
Valio Ltd is a milk-processing enterprise and is owned by more than forty cooperative dairies. It markets members' dairy products in both domestic and foreign markets. Valio Ltd´s brands are known in approximately 60 countries.
    In addition, a number of Valio-owned dairies form a group known as the Kymppi Dairies Group. These dairies cooperate internally, as well as with Valio and Ingman Ltd. In addition to those dairies there is a number of independent dairies which are also members of Pellervo Confederation of Finnish Cooperatives.

The Cooperative Slaughterhouses
There are three big slaughterhouses in Finland: HK Ruokatalo Oyj, Atria Oyj and Järvi-Suomen Portti Cooperative. They are all member owned and have subsidary companies in foreign markets.
    The marketing and processing company HK Ruokataloj Oy is owned by Southwestern Finland Cooperative Slaughterhouse (Lounais-Suomen Osuusteurastamo, LSO). LSO holds a majority share of HK Ruokatalo's stock.  This company cooperates with the privately-owned Pouttu Ltd in Outokumpu. In recent years HK Ruokatalo has increased it´s share holdings, food processing and sailing in the Baltic market.
    The cooperatives Itikka Osuuskunta, Lihakunta and Pohjanmaan Liha are Atria Oyj's largest shareholders. Atria Oyj has acquired the entire share capital of Swedish meat enterprise Lithells AB.
    Atria and HK Ruokatalo cooperate in sloughtering cattle.
    Järvi-Suomen Portti Cooperative Slaughterhouse is involved in processing and marketing of meat.

The Animal Breeding Group
The Animal Breeding Group consists of the Finnish Animal Breeding Association (Osuuskunta Kotieläinjalotuskeskus) and its members (five regional artificial insemination associations and the Finnish Animal Breeding Cooperative). It´s goals are to increase productivity and quality and to enhance reproductive capacity and immunity to disease.
   The Animal Breeding Group and the Rural Advisory Centres have estableshed an new advisory association ProAgria. It started in the beginning of 2002.

The Egg Producers' Cooperative Munakunta
The egg producers' cooperative Munakunta is a nation wide cooperative involved in transporting, packaging and marketing of eggs. More specifically, its goal is to meet the demand for egg and egg-related products according to the needs, concerns and interests of owners and other shareholders. Munakunta is the market leader in Finland.

The Metsäliitto Cooperative
The Metsäliitto Cooperative is the cooperative to safeguard the interests of private forest owners. It has about 118 000 members, all private forest owners. The cooperative buys wood from itÝs members for the production plants, Metsä-Serla, Metsä-Botnia, Finnforest and Metsä Timber, which make the Metsäliitto Group toghether with the Metsäliitto Cooperative. Metsäliitto is one the biggest forest industry enterprises in Europe.

Cooperative Banking groups
Cooperative  banks belonging to  the statutory central institution is  The Cooperative Banking Center cooperative with its about 240 independent cooperative banks.
    The Local Cooperative Banks form the group of their own and have 42  independent cooperative banks. 

The Local Insurance Group
The Local Insurance Group consists of 108 local insurance associations and of a jointly-controlled reinsurance, first insurance and a service company, the Local Insurance Mutual Company Lähivakuutus. There are also Mutual Insurance Company Palonvara, the Federation of the Local Mutuals, and in Swedish-speaking regions there are insurance associations which have their own central body. The associations have 220 service offices all over the country.
    Lähivakuutus has an agreement regarding cooperation with the Verdandi Companies and banks.