Our Name

Pangaea? What's up with the name? How is it pronounced?

The company takes its name from a period when the continents of the earth were together as one continuous land mass, a supercontinent called Pangaea.

Pangaea has its roots in ancient Greek: παν, pan, meaning entire, and γαια, gaia, meaning earth.

For us Pangaea invokes ideas of connection and relationship; that what we do in one place has an impact in another.

We pronounce it pan-GEE-ah.


we are a cooperative

You might have noticed that we do things a little differently here.

We are a consumer owned cooperative.

What does that mean exactly?

Cooperatives are businesses that are owned and democratically controlled by their members, and that exist to serve their members' economic interests.

While cooperatives are economically self-sustaining and able to turn a profit like any other businesses, their purpose is service, not profit. This distinction in purpose, along with the core principles under which they operate, render cooperatives the businesses equivalents of egalitarian states.

Taken together the 300 top cooperatives in 2008 were responsible for an aggregate turnover of 1.1 trillion USD which would make cooperatives as a group the 10th largest economy in the world.

legal description

No legalese, we promise. Okay, maybe just a tiny bit of legalese.

Pangaea Organica. is a corporation founded in November of 2006 in the state of Washington.

It is a cooperative in conformance with the Washington State Cooperative Corporations Act: Revised Code of Washington (RCW), Title 23, Chapter 23.86.

The company may issue two classes of stock. Common stock is issued on the basis of one share to each employee according to a vesting schedule defined in the corporate bylaws. The company may also elect to issue preferred, non-voting shares, with a maximum dividend to be specified
in the stock offering subscription agreement.

Pangaea Organica does business under the following registered names:

Trademarks: