Coop (Italy)

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Coop is a system of Italian consumers' cooperatives which operates the largest supermarket chain in Italy. It has its head office in Casalecchio di Reno, Province of Bologna, near Bologna.^[1]

The first cooperative shop was established in Turin in 1854. As of 2010, Coop's system operates with 115 consumers' cooperatives (9 biggers, 14 mediums and 92 smallers), with 1,444 shops and 56,682 employers, with 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);
  • Novacoop (provinces of Torino, Biella, Vercelli, Novara, Verbania, Varese, Milan, Cuneo, Asti, Alessandria).

• Adriatic District
  • Coop Adriatica (provinces of Belluno, Vicenza, Padua, Venezia, Treviso, Rovigo, Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini, Pesaro e Urbino, Ancona, Macerata, Fermo, Ascoli Piceno, Chieti);
  • Coop Consumatori Nordest (provinces of Piacenza, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Mantua, Brescia, Venezia, Treviso, Rovigo, Pordenone, Udine, Gorizia, Trieste);
  • Coop Estense (provinces of Modena, Ferrara, 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

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• Ipercoop
• CoopVoce
• Consumers' cooperative

References

1. ^ Home page. Coop. Retrieved on 29 January 2011. "Via del Lavoro 6/8 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BO."

External links

• Official website (Italian)
• Coop Voce - Mobile operator (Italian)