Talk:Wooldale Co-operative Society

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Thanks (to R.carroll) for yesterday's deletion of banking industry from the infobox, as, on reflection, I am sure I was overzealous to consider the Handybank service at the Wooldale premises as banking.

The same edit deleted the chief exec and the chairman. I see now in the edit history a note that Fergie Cowan left the society, but when, and who replaced him? www.wooldale.coop still names him as chief exec and secretary, so perhaps he is working out a notice period. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:59, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

I believe Mr Cowan left the Society at the end of 2007. I do not have a reference to give the exact date. Since the proposed merger, the make-up of the board of directors changed significantly and Mr Cowan's role of Chief Executive and Secretary was made redundant. The Chairman of the Society is now Mark Lewis and the Secretary is George Stringer. Again, I do not have a reference but as I myself am on the board, I know this to be true.

Richard ^{( T | C )} 16:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Richard, I knew you were in that part of Yorkshire but I didn't guess it was your co-op. I detected no signs of COI in your edits. Could you encourage your colleagues to get the 2007 annual report up on the society's website? (Latest is 2004 I think.) Then we could add, and source, some more detail in the article.

AGM minutes might explain the puzzling absence of a chief executive's post. Is Mr. Stringer staff or board?

Has a local / amateur historian shown an interest in your archives? It would be nice to fill in the gaps in history between 1886 and 2006. (And find out why you have a chairman and not a president - though perhaps that bit would be unencyclopedic co-op geek trivia!)

--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 18:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)