MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPERATION 

 AND ASSOCIATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 



DENMARK. 



THE GEXERAI, UNION OF CO-OPERATIVE CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATIONS IN1915 (i). 



Following on our previous remarks regarding co-operative consumers' 

 societies in Denmark we give the essential results of the activity in 1915 of 

 the General Union of these societies. 



On 31 December 1914, 1,407 associations • — almost all of those exist- 

 ing in Denmark — belonged to the General Union. Their members num- 

 bered 219,492. 



A year later, on 31 December 1915, eighty-one associations, numbering 

 12,636 members, had acceded to the union. The following figures show the 

 progress of the movement since 1896. 



1896 

 1901 

 1903 



1905 

 1907 

 1909 

 1911 



1913 

 1914 



1915 



Number 

 of Asscciations 



belonging 

 to the Union 



310 



684 



1,029 

 1,189 



1,224 

 1,286 



1.359 

 1,407 

 1,488 



Number 



of 



their 



Members 



90,972 

 115,872 

 143,031 

 168,696 

 173,808 

 181,326 



194.337 

 219,492 

 232,128 



Amount 



of Turnover 



in Millions 



of crowns (2) 



4.2 



13-5 

 19.8 

 26.3 



364 

 41.7 

 48.8 

 62.0 

 69.6 

 71-5 



The reserve funds of the associations which were 350,000 crowns on 

 31 December 1901, amounted on 31 December 1905 to 1,100,000 crowns; on 

 31 December 1910 to 2,775,000 crowns ; in 1912 to 3,657,000 crowns ; in 

 1913 to 3,987,000 crowns ; in 1914 to 4,276,000 crowns ; on 31 December 1915 

 to 4,583,000 crowns. 



(i) Note sent by our correspoudeiit in Copenhagen. 

 {2) I crown = about is i y^dat par. 



