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Co-operatives don't just work with small, independent businesses - they supply some big household names too
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Jessi Baker, founder of blockchain technology platform Provenance, envisions a future where all physical products have digital histories, allowing people to trace and verify products’ origins, attributes and ownership. Is it time for a new dawn of transparency in retail?
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This infographic comes courtesy of HowMuch.net, which visualizes Brand Finance’s list of the top 500 brands.
Each country’s brand is sized accordingly to the dollar value of that company.

That most valuable brand in the world is Google, which edged out Apple by about $2B (via Zerohedge)…

Did you know that many ‘smaller’ and even ‘health-conscious’ food brands are actually owned by mega-conglomerates like Coca-Cola? Not only are these huge companies trying to get a piece of the health-market with ‘healthy’ brands, but they are doing so while striking down our right to know what’s in our food via GMO labeling.