Coop (Italy)

Coop Italia

Company type	Cooperative
Industry	Wholesale distribution
Founded	1967 (1967)
Headquarters	Casalecchio di Reno , Italy
Area served	Italy
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 one of the largest supermarket chains 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 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

• CoopVoce
• Consumers' cooperative

External links

• Official website (in Italian)