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A worker co-operative offering a wide variety of vegetarian, vegan, organic, free-from and specialist food and drink. We are committed to ethical business practices and sourcing products from other co-operatives.








Sustainable and delicious ingredients
We've been stocking kitchens with delicious and responsibly sourced ingredients since 1977, all of them ethical, natural and veggie, many organic, Fairtade and free-from.
Always responsibly sourced
We've done our homework so you don't have to. You can trust us to have carefully researched our supply chains and ingredients so you can be confident you're only buying fairly-traded and sustainable products, many of which are made by other co-ops.


From an ethical equal pay worker co-op
We're a little bit different. Suma is a worker-owned co-op founded in 1977. With no bosses and equal pay for all, we're Europe's largest equal pay co-op. Built on integrity, equality, and sustainability, we're here to inspire change. You can't say fairer than that.
The Journey of Suma
We said bye-bye to the norm in 1977

1977
Sacks full of…
Started out with sacks of beans & pulses, before wholefoods were a thing.

1989
Spreading it around
Remember the wholefood household staple, apple and pear spread?

1996
The 90s vegan butter
We were way ahead of the supermarkets with our organic sunflower spread.

2000
Organic originals
We were the first people to bring organic tinned tomatoes to the UK.

2016
Vegan comfort food
Vegan sausages and beans in a tin, a UK first. Now widely impersonated.

2024
From Italy, with love
Deli-grade organic gluten-free oat pasta, brought to UK kitchens.