Career

The Co-op 20: A G20 Working Group

Howard Brodsky is the chairperson of the Co-op 20, a new G20 Working Group, that has been formed by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)to raise the profile of cooperative businesses in the G20 Summit discussions taking place throughout the year and culminating in October 2021 in Rome, Italy.

Learn more about the ICA and the G20 working group.

CCA Global Partners

In 1984 Howard co-founded CCA Global Partners, and has been its Chairman and co-Chief Executive for the past 37 years. During that time, he built the organization into an $12 billion company, one of the largest retail companies in America, and the fourteenth largest retail cooperative in the world. Howard has dedicated his life to building and sustaining family businesses across the country and around the world through the economic engine that is CCA Global Partners. 

What surprises people the most about CCA Global and Howard is that while he is the co-founder, Chairman and co-CEO, he does not own a single share of the company. As a cooperative, CCA Global is owned by the members, the individual business owners operating their individual family businesses. The success of CCA Global Partners was never to be his singular success, but a force for good shared with all who are a part. Each member has a voice and the cooperative company has shared over $1 billion in profits back to its members. 

Learn more about CCA Global Partners, its divisions and membership opportunities. 

Savings4Members 

Responding to the most pressing needs of local businesses, Howard has brought the scale of savings solutions and benchmarking metrics outside of CCA Global Partners through Savings4Members. Through partnerships with member-based organizations, they equip family businesses with technology built to achieve results made possible by the power of scale. 

Howard leads a team committed to leveling the playing field for all local businesses by strengthening their organizations with the technology and resources necessary to thrive in today’s digital economy.

Learn more about Savings4Members and opportunities for your business network.

Cooperatives for a Better World | Start.coop 

Howard founded in 2015, and is chairman of, the nonprofit Cooperatives for a Better World (CFBW) to promote cooperatives around the globe. Today, Brodsky and the nonprofit lead a network of cooperative business leaders and influencers from different sectors of the economy and all corners of the world. Together they launched the first international marketing campaign for co-ops now adopted by 18 countries, translated into 8 languages, and reaching over half the world’s population. 

Learn more about Cooperatives for a Better World and Start.coop