Date
24 January 2022

Tag

Active

Country
France France
Geographical scope
Local
Type
  • Type

    Establishing alternative models (cooperatives)

    Voluntary
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Description

The Coursiers Nancéiens is a cooperative in Nance, France. The objective of the association is to provide ethical, solidary, ecological and local delivery services through bikes. It operates on a business-to-business basis as well as for individual customers. The cooperative offers a local alternative to the large and dominant platforms. By taking a local approach, it aims to support local merchants and meet the needs of the residents and users of the services. The services offered include deliveries of medicines, meals and heavy loads with cargo bikes. It is supported by the federation CoopCycle.


Additional metadata

Keywords
platform cooperatives, green economy, local economy
Actors
Individual worker, Worker collectives (cooperatives)
Sector
Transportation and storage
Platforms
Les Coursiers Nancéiens

Citation

Eurofound (2022), Les Coursiers Nancéiens cooperative (Initiative), Record number 2251, Platform Economy Database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/platformeconomydb/les-coursiers-nanciens-cooperative-106192.

  • CoopCycle

    CoopCycle is the European federation of bicycle delivery cooperatives. Democratically governed by cooperatives, it is based on solidarity between them and allows them to reduce their costs through resources pooling. …