Topic

Cooking

The daily technology, and the only one everybody practises.

8: in business
10:29: average
84 min: in total
178: across the network

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9:32

E.Leclerc

Édouard Leclerc · 1948

E.Leclerc is a French retailers’ cooperative founded in 1948. It pioneered the hypermarket format in 1964, adopted self-service retailing from the Félix Potin model, launched wine fairs in 1973, discontinued disposable plastic bags in 1996, introduced the Repère brand in 1997, and expanded internationally starting with Pamplona in 1992 and most recently into Luxembourg in 2023 via acquisition.

10:49

Coop (Switzerland)

A cooperative in name, a conglomerate in practice — Coop proves membership doesn’t mean control.

9:57

Coop (Sweden)

A co-operative built to resist corporate power spent a decade losing billions — then rebranded in 2001 and kept losing.

10:16

Edeka

A century-old co-op owns no stores—but controls a quarter of Germany’s grocery market.

12:18

ICA Gruppen

A retailer-owned co-op that became a bank-owning, pharmacy-running, real-estate-holding conglomerate — without ever leaving Sweden’s grocery aisles.

9:14

Migros

Gottlieb Duttweiler · 1925

Migros is a Swiss retail cooperative founded in 1925 in Zurich by Gottlieb Duttweiler as a private enterprise delivering six staple goods via five lorries to households with limited market access.

11:21

REWE Group

A co-operative that won a landmark EU case and spun off software — but still answers to its grocers, not its investors.

10:28

ShopRite

A supermarket empire built on shared warehouses—not shared shareholders.