The Pellervo cooperation Member associations Member companies Our member companies and organisations, publications and services have made Pellervo famous in the Finnish society.    The Pellervo co-operatives have about 1,3 million members in Finland - where is no more than 5 million inhabitants in total. We have both producer and consumer member cooperatives. There are approximately 340 cooperative organizations belonging to Pellervo Confederation of Finnish Cooperatives.  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 The Insurance Group Metsäliitto Cooperative The Egg Producers Cooperative Cooperative banking Group Valio and Cooperative Dairies    about 340 member organizations in total (January 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 The Cooperative Banking Group The Local Insurance Group Valio and Cooperative Dairies Valio Ltd is a milk-processing enterprise and is owned by almost 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 dairies form a group known as the Arla-Ingman collaboration 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: HKScan Oyj, Atria Oyj and Cooperative Karjaportti.     The marketing and processing company HKScan is owned by Southwestern Finland Cooperative Slaughterhouse (LSO Osuuskunta). LSO holds a majority share of HKScan's stock. In recent years HKScan has increased it´s share holdings, food processing and sailing in Sweden, in Poland and in the Baltic market.     The cooperatives Itikka Osuuskunta, Lihakunta and Pohjanmaan Liha are Atria Oyj's largest shareholders. In spite of Finland, Atria has business activities in Sweden, Russia and Danmark.     Cooperative Karjaportti is involved in processing and marketing of meat in Finland. The Animal Breeding Group Faba is the co-op and the trademark for animal breeding and artificial insemination in Finland. Faba has about 16 000 members. Faba´s main service-products are breeding advising, breeding plans at herd level, animal and embryo trade, artificial insemination, fertility and embryo transfer services, herdbooking. Faba cooperates with Viking Genetics, the joint Nordic artificial insemination centre and breeding society. It is owned by Swedish, Danish and Finnish breeding associations. 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 it´s members for the production plants, M-real, Metsä-Botnia, Metsä Tissue and Metsäliiton Puutuoteteollisuus, which is part of Metsäliitto Osuuskunta. Metsäliitto is one the biggest forest industry enterprises in Europe. OP-Pohjola Group OP-Pohjola Group is the largest banking group in Finland. The group consists of more than 250 independent cooperative banks throughout the country. OP-Pohjola Central Cooperative is the central institution of the amalgamation of the cooperative banks.    Pohjola Insurance Ltd is a Pohjola Bank plc subsidiary engaged in non-life insurance business in Finland. POP Pankki Group The POP Pankki banking group consists of about 40 stand-alone local banks. The group was founded in 1997. The group has Paikallisosuuspankkiliitto osk, which is a central organization, lobbying and support unit. The Local Insurance Group The Local Insurance Group comprises 64 insurance associations plus Local Insurance Mutual Company Lähivakuutus and the Federation of the Local Insurance Group. The Local Insurance Group is Finland's 5th biggest non-life insurer in terms of premium income. Its market share is 9 per cent of Finnish direct insurance income. 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.     Lähivakuutus has an agreement regarding cooperation with the Verdandi Companies and banks.