Eroski
| Grupo Eroski
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| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1970 |
| Seat | Elorrio ( Bizkaia ) |
| Number of employees | 31,000 (2005) |
| sales | > 6 billion euros (2005) |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.eroski.es |
Grupo Eroski (Eroski group) is a Spanish chain, whose business it is to hypermarkets in retail to operate. In addition, supermarkets are operated under the names Eroski City and Eroski Center . The company includes a travel agency chain and its own brand Consumer , under which discounter products are produced for the branches. Eroski is a cooperative and belongs to the Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa group . The company's headquarters are in Elorrio ( Bizkaia ) in the Basque Country .
The company, founded in 1970 , now operates around 1265 sales outlets in Spain and Gibraltar, and 38 in France (as of March 2007). The Spanish outlets consist of 81 wholesale markets, 482 supermarkets, 150 city supermarkets, 20 cash & carry depots, 246 travel agencies, 45 petrol stations under the Eroski brand . 39 FORUM sporting goods stores , 197 If perfumery stores, 2 abac leisure and culture shops , 5 food service branches and 16 internet platforms. In Spain, Group 523 also includes Aliprox self -service shops and other franchisers operated in the franchise system . In France, the Eroski Group owns 3 wholesale markets, 18 supermarkets and 17 petrol stations.
Eroski is the third largest Spanish grocery retailer in terms of market share. In 2005, the company had consolidated sales of over € 6 billion and a consolidated profit of approximately € 143 million.
The group belongs to the international purchasing cooperation Alidis (based in Geneva), in which the French Les Mousquetaires - ITM Entreprises group (main brand Intermarché ) and (since 2005) the German Edeka each hold a third.
As the first limited liability company in Spain, Eroski offered its employees to participate in the company, which currently around 13,000 of 31,000 are doing (as of 2005), and the trend is rapidly increasing. There are votes at regular intervals, through which the employees have the opportunity to vote on possible management decisions. Eroski has set up a foundation that works to improve living conditions in developing countries and to support providers of social work. 33 regional shops located in the wholesale markets offer products from the relevant Spanish regions, and the regional languages of the various autonomous Spanish regions are also taken into account when labeling items.
Web links
- Website of the Eroski Group (Spanish)