Cooperativa Migros Ticino
| Cooperativa Migros Ticino
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| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1933 |
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Sant'Antonino , Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 1,177 |
| sales | 469.6 million CHF |
| Branch | Retail trade , gastronomy |
| Website | Migros Ticino |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Cooperativa Migros Ticino (full name: Società cooperativa fra produttori e consumatori Migros - Ticino , German Cooperative Migros Ticino ) is one of ten cooperatives of Migros , the largest retail company in Switzerland . It is based in Sant'Antonino and is a legally independent company within the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB). In terms of sales, Migros Ticino, founded in 1933, is the smallest of all Migros cooperatives.
Organization and key figures
The catchment area of the Cooperativa Migros Ticino includes the canton of Ticino and the Moesa region in the canton of Graubünden . It holds a share of 3.8% in the MGB's cooperative capital. In 2018, Migros Ticino had 97,839 cooperative members, who are represented by a cooperative council with 48 members that is newly elected every four years. Seven of the council members are also delegates to the delegates' assembly of the MGB. In 2018, 1,177 employees generated sales of CHF 469.6 million . The headquarters of the cooperative is the distribution center in Sant'Antonino near Bellinzona .
Business activity
The Cooperativa Migros Ticino includes:
- 32 supermarkets and shopping centers
- 15 specialist stores (5 Do it + Garden, 7 Melectronics, 1 Micasa , 1 Obi , 1 SportXX )
- 12 restaurants (Migros-Restaurant, De Gustibus, Migros Daily, Take-away Frescotto)
- 4 Migros club schools
history
The Ticino cooperative has a historically special position because it is eight years older than the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB). In 1933, Gottlieb Duttweiler first toyed with the idea of converting Migros, which he founded, into a cooperative. He initially wanted to achieve this goal on a small scale in the canton of Ticino. Immediately after the announcement, the grocers formed an action committee to ward off unwanted competition and asked the Chamber of Commerce to strictly apply the existing laws. On August 9, 1933, the Migros società cooperativa fra produttori e consumatori (“Migros Cooperative Between Producers and Consumers”) was founded, which started operations with three shops and a sales van (the branch in Lugano fell a little later, the retroactive clause of the branch ban to the victim). It committed itself to buying harvests and products from farmers at fair prices and at the same time reducing food prices for households and the ailing hotel industry.
In September 1933, the Migros opponents founded the Associazione commercianti del ramo alimentare (ASCA). State Councilor Angiolo Martignoni rejected a tightening of the peddler law demanded by the ASCA, whereupon the Grand Council passed a new law at the end of October 1934. According to the implementing ordinance of June 1935, Migros was supposed to pay an annual fee of 11,000 francs for a sales car. The cantonal government delayed the entry into force of the ordinance, which it wanted to clarify first about the benefits of Migros for Ticino agriculture, but met with fierce opposition from the ASCA. Thereupon Migros temporarily shut down its sales car stationed in Locarno and lodged an appeal with the Federal Supreme Court. It received the right in September 1936, whereupon the cantonal government set the annual fee at a moderate 1900 francs per car. This broke the resistance of the ASCA.
Migros implemented programs to promote agriculture , for example by providing the tomato growers in Mendrisiotto with seedlings at cost or opening up sales markets for new potatoes in the rest of Switzerland . She also bought asparagus , vegetables , grapes and chestnuts in increasing numbers . In 1938 she founded the Lavoro Ticinese Cooperative , thereby supporting the wool spinners in Malcantone . Here, too, she supplied the raw material and bought the finished products. In 1941 the Ticino cooperative joined the MGB. In contrast to other cantons, self-service was slow to establish itself in Ticino. As recently as 1976, the cooperative operated a vending truck that was served by the driver; the last service shop in Biasca lasted until 1978.
Although the Cooperativa Migros Ticino reached the mark of half a billion francs in annual sales in 2001, sales have stagnated or even declined slightly since then. The main reason for this is the increasing shopping tourism to Italy .
Web links
- Cooperativa Migros Ticino (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Società cooperativa fra produttori e consumatori Migros Ticino. Commercial register of the Canton of Ticino, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Relazione annuale 2018. (PDF, 1.4 MB) Cooperativa Migros Ticino, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 (Italian).
- ↑ Organization & structure. In: Annual Report 2018. Federation of Migros Cooperatives, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ^ Organi statutari. Cooperativa Migros Ticino, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 (Italian).
- ↑ Ricerca sedi. Cooperativa Migros Ticino, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 (Italian).
- ^ Alfred A. Häsler : The Migros Adventure. The 60 year old idea . Ed .: Federation of Migros Cooperatives. Migros Presse, Zurich 1985, p. 161 .
- ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 161-162.
- ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 162-163.
- ^ Migros -Genossenschafts-Bund (Ed.): Chronicle of Migros 1925–2012 - Portrait of a dynamic company . Zurich 2013, p. 56, 61 ( online ).
- ^ Chronicle of Migros 1925–2012. P. 94
