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The results of empirical research conducted among the managers of consumers co-operatives ('Spolem' PSS), co-operative creameries and the 'Samopomoc Chlopska' co-operatives, concerning economic situation of those entites are presented. From numerous important current problems the co-operatives, being the specific organizational-proprietary form of economic activity, have to deal with, the research concentrated only on empirical material obtained through a survey including opinions on the market situation of co-operatives and the level of their competitiveness as well as on the productive capacity of co-operatives and their production profile