Features of the American model of cooperative stores on distribution of grain

Abstract

The features of the American model of cooperative stores on distribution of grain were considered. Existing local, regional,
interregional and international cooperative stores that are engaged
in grain agricultural business were analyzed. The basic ways of
development of grain-growing marketing stores, reasons of their
merger and consolidation in conditions of modern financial and
economic crisis were explained, the analysis of the economical
growth of the cooperative stores, that are situated in the middle zone
of the USA was conducted. It is established that, for the expansion
of their scope of activity and strengthening of their market power,
cooperative stores develop joint ventures or joint agency markets.