Welcome Marchwood

Welcome is the convenience store franchise brand of Southern Co-op, a co-operative owned by its members and operating across the south of England. Southern Co-op runs convenience food stores, funeral homes, crematoria, natural and woodland burial grounds and a Starbucks coffee franchise, has over 4,000 colleagues and a stated purpose of working together for the benefit of its communities, and describes a successful franchise business that includes Welcome convenience food stores and Cobra Coffee, a licensed franchisee of Starbucks. The society reports it is joining forces with the Co-op Group.