Wild Rose Co-operative Association Ltd.

Name

Wild Rose Co-operative Association Ltd.

Legal name

Wild Rose Co-operative Association Ltd.

Website

https://wildroseco-op.crs

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Rural Retail Cooperative

NAICS

Other Specialty Food Retailers (44529)

SIC

Retail-Food Stores (5400), Retail-Auto & Home Supply Stores (5531)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Co-ops with In-Store Prepared Foods & Deli (CRAHALAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community-Owned / Nonprofit Grocery Stores (CRAHALAB)

Keywords

• Rural retail cooperative
• Grocery retail services
• Fuel station services
• Agricultural supply retail
• Home improvement retail

Headquarters

HQ city

Camrose

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Retail Operations: Revenue generated through multiple retail formats including food/grocery stores, gas bars, home centre retail, agro services, and petroleum operations serving rural Alberta communities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Wild Rose Co-operative Association Ltd. operates member-owned retail locations across rural east-central Alberta, providing food/grocery, fuel, agricultural supplies, home/hardware, and petroleum products under five service departments — Agro, Food, Gas Bar, Home Centre, and Petroleum. It complements these retail operations with a Membership Program that links local residents to community ownership and benefits.

Product overview

Wild Rose Co-operative Association Ltd. is a locally-owned co-operative providing retail and community services across multiple Alberta communities including Camrose, Hardisty, Killam, Galahad, Alliance, Sedgewick, Viking, and Camrose County. The co-operative operates several distinct service departments (Agro, Food, Gas Bar, Home Centre, and Petroleum) that serve as the core of its member-owned business model. Alongside these retail operations, Wild Rose Co-op offers membership programs, community support initiatives, and a Kids Club program. The organization functions as a traditional retail co-operative where local residents can become members and access services while the business returns value to the community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

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Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Federated Co-operatives Limited: Wholesale, manufacturing, and administrative arm of the CRS retail system that supplies, brands, and supports member retail co-ops including Wild Rose. Core upstream enabler of Wild Rose's retail operations rather than a direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Walmart Canada: National mass merchandise and grocery retailer whose expanding presence in or near smaller Alberta communities creates direct price and assortment competition for Wild Rose's grocery and general merchandise departments.
• Loblaw Companies Limited: Canada's largest grocery retailer (Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Shoppers Drug Mart) with growing presence in smaller Alberta markets. Sets competitive pricing benchmarks that pressure rural food-retail margins.
• UFA Co-operative Ltd. Large Alberta farmer-owned co-operative dominant in agro, fuel, and petroleum retail. Direct overlap with Wild Rose's Agro, Gas Bar, and Petroleum departments at significantly larger scale and broader geographic footprint.

Direct peers

• Calgary Co-operative Association Limited: Member-owned retail co-operative operating multi-format food, fuel, and pharmacy locations across the Calgary region. Same co-operative retail model as Wild Rose, just at significantly larger scale in an urban catchment.
• Central Alberta Co-op: CRS-affiliated retail co-operative based in Red Deer with food, fuel, agro, and home centres across central Alberta. Operates the same member-owned multi-format model in an adjacent rural-Alberta catchment.
• Lacombe and District Co-operative Association Limited: Rural central-Alberta retail co-operative with food, gas bar, agro, and home centre divisions. Closely comparable in scale, format mix, and customer base to Wild Rose.
• Westview Co-operative Association Ltd. CRS-affiliated retail co-operative serving Westlock and surrounding rural Alberta communities with grocery, fuel, agro, and hardware. Comparable rural multi-format co-op model.
• North Central Co-operative Association Ltd. CRS-affiliated retail co-operative serving the Lacombe/Ponoka area of central Alberta with food, fuel, agro, and home centre formats. Directly comparable in rural-Alberta multi-format retail co-op model and immediate geographic neighbour to Wild Rose.
• Cardston and District Co-operative Association Ltd. CRS-affiliated southern Alberta retail co-operative operating food, fuel, and agro formats in a comparable small-town rural catchment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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