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Ben Reid is a member of the board of directors of International Cooperative Alliance and former CEO of Midcounties Co-operative.
He began his career as an employee in a small co-operative in Ilkeston.[1] He moved to Walsall in 1988, when he was appointed deputy chief executive of West Midlands Co-op. He became chief executive in 1992. In 2005 West Midlands merged with the Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Society to become Midcounties Cooperative.
Under his leadership Midcounties Co-operative grew into the UK’s largest independent co-operative and moved also to childcare, travel, health and energy.[2] Under his leadership Midcounties Co-operative became an early champion of the Fair Tax Mark[3] and also served as the chair of Cooperatives UK.[4]
In 2018, Reid was appointed Chair of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust,[5] and in 2019 Chair of the University of Wolverhampton.[5]
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