Co-op Adriatica
Coop Adriatica
Submitted by Garry Cronan on October 15, 2007 - 2:26pm. Co-op Adriatica | Retailing | Italy | Products | Community | Principles/CSRCoop Adriatica has 114 points of sale in 4 regions (Emilia Romagna,
Marche, Abruzzo and Veneto.) It is part of the Coop group of
retailers in Italy.
Global 300 ranking:
96Number of members:
890,112Member Dividend:
USD $139,153,960Number of employees:
9,120Gender Diversity:
68% of employees are femaleTurnover:
USD $: 2,147,483,647Type of Co-operative:
Co-operativeDate founded:
1995Operating Countries:
Italy
Website:
Products
Coop Adriatica’s outlet in Ascoli Piceno was the first supermarket in Italy with green brands ‘Tutt' Oggi’. Coop is the only retailer in Italy to have obtained FSC certification for their own brand cellulose based ‘Tutella line’ of paper products.
Other innovative materials used for packing own brand products are the recycled celluloses the ‘Cartalatte’ and ‘Cartafrutta’ (trade mark by Tetrapak), used in the production of duvet covers and pillowcases of the Collection ‘Letto Coop’.
Coop Adriatica has other own brand products with official organic certification.
Coop Adriatica’s cosmetic products are certified ‘Not tested on animals’.
Coop Adriatica has been the first Italian distribution chain that has been listed in the official directory of Dolphin-Safe companies. All tuna sales are from dolphin friendly fisheries.
Community
Coop Adriatica collaborates with the Food Bank Foundation that
carries out, on the last Saturday of November, a collection of non perishable food products. These are donated by customers and given to organisations that assist needy persons locally. In 2005 the collection was carried out at 97 Coop Adriatica stores and produced a total of 195.918 kilograms of foods, with a value of approximately €657.000.
Coop Lombardy has developed with the Caritas Ambrosiana a service ‘due mani in più (two hands more)’ to deliver shopping and company to the homes of the elderly, invalids and handicapped people.
Coop Adriatica publishes an annual list of voluntary service associations and social co-operatives, the ‘C’Entro Anch’io’. The aim is to identify and to support projects in favour of infants and youth.
The project ‘Agua Para dois Irmãos’ assists in the construction of approximately 1.000 family cisterns for rainwater capture in the municipality of Dois Irmãos, Brazil. Financed by the ANCC/Coop Italy and undertaken by ONG Toscaza UCODEP, the project was started in September 2005 and will achieve a total number of 1.000 cisterns by the end of 2007.
Coop Adriatica has provided assistance for co-operatives damaged by the Tsunami in Sri Lanka, with a focus on the Districts of Hambantota and Kalutara. Partners in this intervention are the ONG UCODEP of d’Arezzo and GVC of Bologna. The project was started in May 2005; the date planned for completion is June 2007.
Coop Adriatica and its associates have become active in the international campaign ‘Make Poverty History’, selling the campaign’s white bracelets in all its hypermarkets and in approximately fifty supermarkets. To date more than €25,000 has been raised for this cause.
Over the past two years, many thousands of members of Coop Adriatica have supported, a health centre build by ‘Médecins sans Frontières’ (MSF) in Cuemba/Angola (Africa). Altogether the members of the co-operative have distributed the equivalent of €800,000. When added to the donations from the members of the ‘Coop Consumatori Nordest’ and the ‘Coop Estense’, the total raised comes to €1.3 million.
