Coop (Switzerland)

Coop Genossenschaft
Coop société coopérative
Coop società cooperativa
Company typeCooperative
IndustryWholesale distribution
PredecessorVSK/USC (founded in 1890)
Founded1969; 55 years ago (1969)
Headquarters
Basel
,
Switzerland
Key people
Joos Sutter
(Chairman of the Executive Committee)
Hansueli Loosli
(Chairman of the Board of Directors)
Revenue30.7 billion CHF (2019)[1]
Members2,500,000[2]
Number of employees
90,307 (2019)[1]
Websitecoop.ch
Coop city at Bellevue square in Zürich
Coop in a shopping center in Oberwil

Coop (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 2019, Coop operated 2,478 shops and employed more than 90,000 people in Switzerland.[3] 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 awarded Coop with the title of "World's Most Sustainable Retailer".[4] Coop has three primary brands with a sustainability selling proposition: Coop Oecoplan (various daily life products), Coop Naturaline (textile products) and Coop Naturaplan (food). The company also sells products bearing the Max Havelaar Fairtrade label.

Coop also has a low-cost product line, "Prix Garantie". 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 at coop.ch.[5] 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, Italian, and English.

  1. ^ a b "Coop weiter auf Erfolgskurs". www.coop.ch.
  2. ^ "We are a cooperative". coop.ch. Coop. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Wichtige Kennzahlen des Geschäftsjahres 2019". www.coop.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  4. ^ World’s most sustainable retailer Coop. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  5. ^ Coop's Official Website Archived June 18, 2020, at the Wayback Machine