{"id":237965,"date":"2020-09-16T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/sale-of-mountain-equipment-co-op\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:46:25","slug":"sale-of-mountain-equipment-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/sale-of-mountain-equipment-co-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale of Mountain Equipment Co-op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are truly disappointed by the developments surrounding MEC, which has long been Canada\u2019s largest consumer co-operative and a valued member of CMC.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this statement is to protect the brand resiliency of the co-op business model, which was brought into question by the acquirer of MEC, suggesting that&nbsp;<em>The transition from a co-operative structure is needed to ensure a stable future for MEC\u2019s retail business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.ca%2Fnews-releases%2Fjoint-statement-cmc-amp-bcca-872161211.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7CJeannie.van-Dyk%40agropur.com%7C672aff5a89144a49303b08d859bea640%7C0f54fa72a38c46e48456b8acb107635b%7C0%7C0%7C637358022660390160&amp;sdata=2CBk4r15H90aiJ1mWJ9UHlFrYEtBVgG5S8J7KiI5%2Fqc%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Read our joint statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.coop\/sites\/canada.coop\/files\/mec_faces_objections_to_proposed_deal_to_sell_business_to_u.s._investment_firm.pdf\">Read the article from The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are truly disappointed by the developments surrounding MEC, which has long been Canada\u2019s largest consumer co-operative and a valued member of CMC. The purpose of this statement is to protect the brand resiliency of the co-op business model, which was brought into question by the acquirer of MEC, suggesting that&nbsp;The transition from a co-operative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[136,134,137,135],"class_list":["post-237965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-co-operatives-development","tag-communication-and-medias","tag-government-relations","tag-members-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238525,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237965\/revisions\/238525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}