Coop (Switzerland)

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Coop Switzerland
cooperative
Industry Wholesale distribution
Predecessor USC (founded in 1890)
Founded 1969; 55 years ago (1969)
Headquarters Basel, Switzerland
Revenue 26.97 billion CHF (2013)[1]
Number of employees
74 955 (2013)[1]
Website coop.ch
Coop city at Bellevue square in Zürich
Coop in a shopping center in Oberwil

Coop Cooperative (German pronunciation: [ˈkoːp]) is one of Switzerland's largest retail and wholesale companies. It is structured in the form of a cooperative society with around 2.5 million members.

As of 2007, Coop operates 1437 shops and employs almost 48 200 people. According to Bio Suisse, the Swiss organic producers' association, Coop accounts for half of all the organic food sold in Switzerland. In June 2011, independent German rating agency oekom research AG awarded Coop with the title of "World's Most Sustainable Retailer".[2] Coop has three primary brands with a sustainability selling proposition: Coop Oecoplan (various daily life products), Coop Naturaline (textile products) and Coop Naturaplan (food) are brands focusing on lowering environmental impacts and optimising social outcomes in the supply chain. However, the company also sells a considerable amount of products bearing the Max Havelaar Fairtrade label.

Coop also has a low-cost product line, "Prix Garantie. " Other than that, the latest product line from Coop is entitled PlanB and focuses on young clients looking for food on the go.

Coop owns the Swiss chocolate company Halba.

Coop publishes a weekly magazine called Coopzeitung (in German), Coopération (in French) and Cooperazione (in Italian).

The chain has an online presence called coop@home.[3] The web site offers much of the same selection found in the Coop stores and delivers groceries, wine, flowers, books, and other products to customers in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It currently markets its services in German, French, and English.

Summary

The Coop Group is headquartered in Switzerland and operates in the retail, wholesale and production sectors. Coop Group operates store formats in the food, non-food and service sectors. Coop offers the greatest choice of brands in Switzerland and has a broad range of environmentally friendly and socially responsible products, as well as sustainability achievements along the entire value chain. With Transgourmet Holding AG, Coop is Europe’s second largest cash & carry and wholesale supplies business. In total, the Coop Group has around 2,000 retail outlets in Switzerland and 115 cash & carry markets in Switzerland and other European countries. The Coop Group has a workforce of around 77,000, with approx. 53,000 employees in Switzerland.

Passabene (self-checkout)

Coop was one of the first self-checkout providers in Switzerland, introducing its own system called Passabene in 2005. It is in use in 80 stores. Coop uses the MC17T Retail Mobile Computer by Motorola Solutions for this application. They later introduced an Apple iPhone App that customers can use to scan items.[4][5] As of Nov 2015, Coop point-of-sale devices accept Apple Pay, however, Coop Pronto gas stations do not (due to lack of NFC-capability.)

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zahlen und Fakten der Coop-Gruppe, 2013 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "zf" defined multiple times with different content
  2. Nachhaltigkeit: Coop ist Weltmeisterin! Coop. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  3. coop@home's official web site
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