It has won the Scottish brass band championship a record 36 times, and the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain twice.

[1] The band was formed in 1918 as the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) band, originally drawing its players from the SCWS factories in Glasgow.

It continued to receive sponsorship from the Co-operative Group, adopting a number of names relating to the group's business, most recently the Co-operative Funeralcare Band[2] from 2009 until 2019[1] As CWS (Glasgow) band, they won the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain in 1990, and repeated this feat in 1996.

[1] In 2018, it was announced that the Co-operative Group would withdraw its sponsorship,[3] and the band's future seemed in doubt.

However, a new sponsorship deal was arranged with Scotmid cooperative society, which brought with it a new name of "the cooperation band".