For many years we have been the largest Italian chain in the market for the distribution of consumer products, because consumer cooperatives have been able to create a network capable of combining market logic with social responsibility.
The Consumer Cooperative
It is not an enterprise like any other, it is not a joint-stock company. It is something very special, governed by principles that unite cooperatives around the world.
The basic idea of cooperation arises from need and solidarity:
in this way an original entrepreneurial response is built which, from the first pioneering experiences, in more than a century and a half of history, develops up to become the first Italian distribution organization.
It is a story of people, work, sacrifices and enthusiasms, closely intertwined with the political and social events of our country. The original values are still the basis of cooperation today: the centrality of people, their needs and their rights.
Coop Italia
Coop Italia S.c.a.r.l.
Food products, consumer goods
Turnover in excess of 16 billion euros
54,000 employees