Coop (Italy)

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Type cooperative Area served Italy, San Marino Revenue €12.898 billion (2010) Founded 1967, Milan, Italy		Industry Wholesale distribution Products food and non-food Members 7,429,847 (2010)

Headquarters Casalecchio di Reno, Italy Subsidiaries Unicoop Tirreno Soc. Coop. Profiles Facebook Twitter YouTube

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.

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 Torino, 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).

References

Coop (Italy) Wikipedia

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