Investor Presentaiton
Some examples of substantial cooperatives active in Emilia Romagna can be clarifying. The largest is
Alleanza 3.0, (3.7 billion euro of turnover in 2017), with 400 shops in 12 Italian regions, 2.3 million
members, and is major part of the 94 Italian consumer coops, which together are in Italy market leader in
organized retail distribution. Bologna hosts also the two connected companies Centrale Adriatica (which
manages the warehouses of the Coop system, 3.2 billion euros of turnover) and Coop Italia (which
manages the wholesale of the Coop system, 0.8 billion). In Bologna there are also the headquarters of
CONAD (1.3 billion), the retailers coop created in 1963, which is today active through eight groups and has
recently bought up the AUCHAN Italian branch. COOP, CONAD and some smaller cooperative groups
cover 1/3 of the Italian organized retail distribution.
Bologna is the home of largest coops in other sectors: CAMST (0.6 billion euros), the largest Italian
coop in catering, created in 1946 (which is also the largest Italian company in catering tout court);
Granarolo (1 billion), a large dairy joint stock company controlled by the coop Granlatte; Sacmi (0.9
billion), a substantial manufacturing coop producing machinery for tiles and for the confection of glass
bottles; Re-keep (0.7 billion), a large facility management joint stock company controlled by the coop
Manutencoop. It also hosts three important cooperative consortia: Conserve Italia (0.6 billion), a group of
agro-food and beverages coops, CNS (0.8 billion), a group of facility management coops and Integra (0.7
billion), which organizes what remains of the construction coops.View entire presentation