Coop (Italy)
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| Company type | cooperative |
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| Industry | Wholesale distribution |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Italy, San Marino, Egypt, Wallis-et-Futuna |
| Products | food and non-food |
| Revenue | €12.898 billion (2010) |
| Members | 7,429,847 (2010) |
Number of employees | 56,682 (2010) |
| Website | e-coop.it |
Coop is a system of Italian consumers' cooperatives which operates the largest supermarket chain in Italy. Its headquarters are located in Casalecchio di Reno, Province of Bologna.[1]
The first cooperative shop was established in Turin in 1854. As of 2010, Coop's system operates with 115 consumers' cooperatives of various sizes (9 large, 14 medium, and 92 small), with 1,444 shops, 56,682 employers, more than 7,429,847 members, and an annual revenue of €12.9 billion.
Big Cooperatives
- North-West District
- Coop Liguria (provinces of Genoa, Savona, La Spezia, Imperia, Alessandria, Cuneo);
- Coop Lombardia (provinces of Varese, Como, Milan, Monza and Brianza, Lodi, Pavia, Cremona, Brescia, Bergamo);
- Novacoop (provinces of Turin, Biella, Vercelli, Novara, Verbania, Varese, Milan, Cuneo, Asti, Alessandria).
- Adriatic District
- Coop Alleanza 3.0 (formed by the merger of the three big cooperatives of the Adriatic District, Coop Adriatica, Coop Consumatori Nordest and Coop Estense on 1 January 2016) (provinces of Trieste, Gorizia, Udine, Pordenone, Belluno, Vicenza, Treviso, Padua, Venezia, Treviso, Rovigo, Brescia, Mantua, Piacenza, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini, Pesaro e Urbino, Ancona, Macerata, Fermo, Ascoli Piceno, Chieti, Foggia, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Bari, Brindisi, Taranto, Lecce, Matera).
- Tyrrenic District
- Coop Centro Italia (provinces of Arezzo, Siena, Perugia, Terni, Rieti, L'Aquila);
- Unicoop Firenze (provinces of Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato, Florence, Arezzo, Siena);
- Unicoop Tirreno (provinces of Massa-Carrara, Lucca, Livorno, Grosseto, Siena, Terni, Viterbo, Rome, Latina, Frosinone, Naples, Avellino).
See also
References
- ^ Home page Archived 2013-02-10 at the Wayback Machine. Coop. Retrieved on 29 January 2011. "Via del Lavoro 6/8 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BO."
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coop (Italy).
- Official website (in Italian)