Media Centre

The Co-op

Our media centre gives you access to our media releases and some key facts about the Co-op.

Facts & Figures

• Australia's most innovative Omni-channel retailer
• Formed in 1958
• Australia's oldest online retailer (since 1996) and now one of Australia’s largest e-commerce sites - www.coop.com.au
• Australia's largest co-operative with over 1.72 million members
• Australia's largest e-book aggregator and retailer – with over 400,000 e-books
• Australia's largest on campus retailer
• 51 stores nation-wide and growing.
• Lifetime membership ($20 once off) open to everyone - extensive member benefits
• Not for profit status with sustainability focus
• Multi product - retailer (more than just textbooks - includes computers, tablets, tech gear, apparel, fiction, non-fiction, gadgets and games)

If you need more information or would like to ask us a question, just email g.smith@coop.com.au

Media Releases

• Co-op Futures Leaders Index - Part 1 - a completely unique and fresh look at the young minds of Australia
• Co-op develops new digital software to ensure learning is as easy as A,B...E-readers, May 2013
• The Co-op Takes Flight with STA Travel, 18 April 2013 (PDF)
• Free Songle Streaming, 25 March 2013 (PDF)
• Best Job on Campus, 13 March 2013 (PDF)
• Uni Students Buzzing Over Smart New App, 25 February 2013 (PDF)
• From books to banking: Co-op trials banking services in partnership with ME Bank, 26 February 2013 (PDF)
• From UNI Bookshop To Omni-Channel Retailer - 22 January 2013 (PDF)
• Co-op boosts presence in Victoria (PDF)
  Australia's largest member-owned retailer, the Co-op, continues to defy the doom and gloom of retailers with the acquisition of six outlets at Victoria University - December 2012 (PDF)
• Co-op grows west (PDF)
  Iconic bookseller, the Co-op Bookshop has once again defied the trend of the shrinking retail industry through the acquisition of the Edith Cowan University Bookshops - November 2012 (PDF)
• News Release:   Co-op enlists PayPal to help Australian students beat the queues this semester - August 2012 (PDF)
• Co-op rings up a new deal for students - July 2012 (PDF)
• Big win sees Co-op grow again - June 2012 (PDF)
• The quiet achiever just got a bit louder - May 2012 (PDF)
• NWho said bookshops were dead? - March 2012 (PDF)
• Bookshop signs up its 1.6 millionth member - February 2012 (PDF)

In the News

Co-op a finalist in the 2013 IAB awards

• Finalists of 2013 IAB Awards announced, 4 June 2013

Future Leaders Index

• 31 May, 2013 - Channel 10 News - Graduates who are finding harder to enter the workforce are having to get creative to give themselves a head start.
  
  

Co-op Partners with Songl

• Ad News: The Co-op and Songl Join Forces, 5 April 2012
• Uni of Melb Student Union Facebook 4th April 2013

Co-op : A retail transformation success story

• Q Radio Qantas (Domestic & International): Greg Smith CMO interviewed on Q Radio - May 2013
  
  
  
• The Australian: New Co-op a Textbook Retail Revolution, Friday 15 March 2013 (PDF)
• Power Retail: The Co-op's Omnichannel Rebrand Shows Promising Start - Thursday, 7 March 2013 (PDF)
• The Courier Mail: Co-op and social media a formula to beat slump - Monday, 4 March 2013 (PDF)

Unibuzz Launch

• StartupSmart: Co-op Bookshop Launches Unibuzz App For University Students 26 March 2013 (PDF)
• Gizmodo: App deals of the day Gizmodo 6th March 2013(PDF)
• The Australian Society of Entrepreneurs: Unibuzz app organises your tertiary education 6th March 2013 (PDF)
• Lifehacker Australia: Unibuzz app organises your tertiary education - Wednesday, 6 March 2013 (PDF)
• Power Retail: Co-op Creates Buzz over new smart phone app - Monday, 25 February 2013 (PDF)

Co-op Rebrands

• February 13, 2013 - Sky News Business - Co-op, formerly known as the Co-op Bookshop, appears to be bucking the trend in the struggling retail sector, experiencing 25% growth in 2012. To discuss why it is introducing new products and services and what's ahead for the business, Greg Smith joins Switzer TV.
  
  
  
  
• Marketing: The Co-op: from university bookshop to omnichannel retailer - Tuesday, 12 January 2013 (PDF)
• Inside Retail Magazine: Bookstore Rebrands - Tuesday, 22 January 2013 (PDF)
• Bookseller & Publisher: The Co-op Bookshop Rebrands as The co-op - Tuesday, 22 January 2013 (PDF)
• Power Retail: The Co-op: A Humble Bookshop Receives Omnichannel rebrand, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 (PDF)

The International Year of Co-operatives

• ABC 702 Night Life: - Jen Fleming talks to Melina Morrison, Director of the Australian Secretariat of the International Year of Co-operatives and Peter Knock, CEO of the Co-op about the challenges and influence of co-ops today. January 2, 2013
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Victoria University Acquisitions

• Bookseller & publisher: Co-op Bookshop Expands - Wednesday, 12 December 2012 (PDF)
• Inside Retail: Co-op Bolts On - Wednesday, 12 December 2012 (PDF)

Edith Cowan University Acquisitions

• Bookseller & Publisher: The Co-op Bookshop Expands - Wednesday, 14 November 2012 (PDF)
• Inside Retail: Co-op snaps up three new stores - Wednesday, 14 November (PDF)
• Australia Edith Cowan University: ECU welcomes the Co-op Bookshop to campus - Thursday, 8 November, 2012 (PDF)

PayPal

• itwire: Co-op Booskhop Co-ops PayPal to let students ‘window-shop’ via QR codes - August 2012 (PDF)
• Power Retail: Co-op Bookshop embraces QR codes for queue busting - August 2012 (PDF)
• Press coverage - QR Code Press - QR Codes used for successful mobile commerce for book sales - August 2012 (PDF)
• Retail Biz: Co-op, PayPal help students beat queues - August 2012 (PDF)

Co-op rings up a new deal for students:
amaysim

• Bookseller & Publisher: Co-op Bookshop partners with mobile phone company - July 2012 (PDF)
• Retail biz: Co-op rings up a new deal for students - July 2012 (PDF)

The quiet achiever just got a bit louder:
Canberra

• Inside Retail: Bookshop chain spreads it's reach - June 2012 (PDF)
• University of Canberra: Grand opening of the new UC Co-op Bookshop - June 2012 (PDF)

Big win sees Co-op Grow again:
Melbourne

• Inside Retail: Co-op books snaps up rival - June 2012 (PDF)
• Retail Biz: Co-op expands with another acquisition – June 2012 (PDF)
• Print 21: Co-op Bookshop buys up big at university - June 2012 (PDF)
• Smart Company: Co-op Bookshop fights back with acquisition in glimmer of hope for book industry - June 2012 (PDF)

Who said bookshops were dead:
Macquarie wall

• Bookseller & Publisher - Social Media climbers - March 2012 (PDF)
• Press coverage - Print 21 - Window shopping expereince captured in print - March 2012 (PDF)
• Press release - Inside retail - Window Shopping 1 - March 2012.pdf
• Press release - Inside retail - Window Shopping 2 - March 2012.pdf
• Press release - Inside retail - Window Shopping 3 - March 2012.pdf

The Best Jobs on Campus

• ABC: Japanese reality tv star gets best gig on campus
• Courier Mail: Japanese tv show follows family in the house of rising sons and sister
• Best Job on Campus, 13th March 2013 (PDF)

Click Frenzy

• News.com.au: Click Frenzy website works but shoppers largely ignore it, April 24 2013

Click Frenzy

• News.com.au: Click Frenzy website works but shoppers largely ignore it, April 24 2013