Samband íslenskra samvinnufélaga

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The Samband íslenskra samvinnufélaga (SÍS) is an association of cooperatives in Iceland , whose original activities have largely ceased. The Kaupfélag were among the members .

SÍS goes back to a predecessor organization that was founded in North Iceland in 1902. In 1917 the association moved its headquarters from Akureyri to Reykjavík . In the years to come, SÍS assumed a dominant role in trade with Icelandic farmers, both as an importer of agricultural goods and as an exporter of Icelandic agricultural products. It was closely related to the peasant progress party . In the course of the development of the cooperatives, SÍS expanded enormously and included a bank , an insurance company, a shipping line , fisheries , chain stores and other companies , among others .

In the 1980s, SÍS ran into financial difficulties and was split up into various sole proprietorships in the early 1990s. According to the historian Guðmundur Hálfdanarson in A to Z of Iceland (2010), the last remnants of the cooperative movement in Iceland had disappeared at the beginning of the 2000s. With that the vision also died, " to create an economic alternative to both capitalism and socialism ". As SÍS has little public presence, it is often assumed that the organization as such has filed for bankruptcy and no longer exists, but this is not the case. SÍS is still in existence, is back in Akureyri and has been primarily a "social forum" for discussing trade issues since it was discontinued as a cooperative association. As of May 2020, the chairman is Hannes Karlsson. In 2012 the archive of SÍS was transferred to the Icelandic National Archives ( Þjóðskjalasafn Íslands ).

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  1. ↑ a b Guðmundur Hálfdanarson: The A to Z of Iceland (=  The A to Z guide series . No. 299 ). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Toronto / Plymouth UK 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7208-0 , pp. 38 .
  2. ↑ Guðmundur Hálfdanarson: The A to Z of Iceland (=  The A to Z guide series . No. 299 ). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Toronto / Plymouth UK 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7208-0 , pp. 38 : "(...) and with it died the vision of creating an economic alternative to both capitalism and socialism."
  3. ↑ a b Samband íslenskra samvinnufélaga lifir góðu lífi ( Icelandic ) In: visir.is . June 25, 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Samband íslenskra samvinnufélaga ( Icelandic ) In: Fyrirtækjaskrá [Icelandic Commercial Register] . Ríkisskattstjóri. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ Þjóðskjalasafnið Fær skjalasafn SIS ( Icelandic ) In: ruv.is . Ríkisútvarpið. October 19, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2020.