Core (purchasing community)
Core is a buying community of European retail chains . The main objective is to jointly procure internationally tradable goods in order to achieve lower prices and lower the costs of intermediate trade and logistics.
Core has the legal form of a cooperative and is based in Brussels .
history
The purchasing cooperation was founded at the beginning of 2014 by four corporate groups that had previously belonged to the Coopernic purchasing community . In September 2013, however, the German REWE Group , the Belgian Colruyt Group , the Italian Conad and Coop Switzerland announced their separation from the French E.Leclerc group at the end of the year due to "irreconcilable differences over the future form and strategic direction" of the alliance .
The terms of the new cooperation remained the same as before with Coopernic, the headquarters are also in Brussels. Rewe CEO Alain Caparros was elected President of Core, Gianluigi Ferrari, who already held the same position at Coopernic, took over the management.
At the beginning of 2015, the French grocery chain Système U joined Core as the fifth member. In mid-2015, the REWE Group left the Core purchasing community again after just one year in order to instead enter into a cooperation with the former Coopernic member E. Leclerc.
Individual evidence
- ^ Press release from REWE Group , September 6, 2013
- ^ Former Coopernic Alliance renamed Core
- ↑ Lebensmittelzeitung, January 17, 2014
- ^ Alliance with E.Leclerc: Rewe changes alliance. In: www.handelsblatt.com. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .