Fenaco

Fenaco Cooperative
legal form	cooperative
founding	1993
Seat	Bern , Switzerland
management	Martin Keller ; ( Chairman of the Management Board ) ; Pierre-André Geiser ; (President of Administration)
Number of employees	10,472 (2019)
sales	7.00 billion CHF (2019)
Branch	Agriculture, food industry, retail trade, energy, various
Website	www.fenaco.com
	As of May 20, 2020

The Fenaco (proper spelling fenaco, short for fé Federation na tional of co opéra tive agricoles) is an agricultural cooperative based in Bern . Association members are almost 200 agricultural cooperatives that operate under the Landi brand ; Fenaco also has a few other association members. Fenaco therefore indirectly holds a large majority of the 44,000 members of the Landi cooperatives, around 23,000 of whom are active farmers. Well-known Fenaco companies and brands are the beverage manufacturer Ramseier Suisse , the meat processor Ernst Sutter AG , the retailers Volg and Landi , the fertilizer dealer Landor, the animal feed manufacturer UFA and the energy provider Agrola . The Fenaco cooperative employs around 10,000 people and generated sales of CHF 7 billion in 2019.

Companies

Fenaco is the largest company actually owned by Swiss farmers. The original idea was that the farmers should be both customers and suppliers of "their" Landi cooperative, that is, they should buy the means of production there on the one hand and sell their products on the other. Today, however, there are no longer any contractual fixings. Fenaco and its member cooperatives sell the farmers means of production (seeds, animal feed , plant food and others) for the production of food. In return, Fenaco buys products from the farmers, in particular seeds, grain, oilseeds, potatoes, cattle, eggs, corn, vegetables, fruit and grapes. Fenaco markets the products and processes some of them (through subsidiaries).

The main areas of activity are:

Manufacture, import and trade in means of production for agriculture
Purchase, storage, processing and marketing of agricultural products
Trade in grain and oilseeds as well as fuels and fuels

Fenaco has over 80 subsidiaries, including the food company Frigemo , the meat and meat products manufacturer Ernst Sutter , the beverage manufacturer Ramseier Suisse , the Anicom , which specializes in the trade of farm animals, and the feed manufacturer UFA . Fenaco operates the retail chains Volg , Landi and the gas station shops TopShop and sells heating oil, fuels and energy under the Agrola brand . Fenaco also owns the transport company Traveco. In October 2014, Fenaco took over all of the shares in Bison , which is active in the IT sector . Fenaco publishes the largest Swiss agricultural magazine, the UFA-Revue .

Fenaco also operates its own photovoltaic systems . The largest system with an electricity production of around 1.2 GWh was commissioned at the Bätterkinden location in 2019 .

At the beginning of 2011, Biomill AG (small animal feed) was taken over by Groupe Minoteries . On March 12, 2020 it was announced that Fenaco wants to take over the majority in Provins .

history

Switzerland was regarded as a grain country until the 1880s. With the construction of the railway in Switzerland, this changed. With the help of the new means of transport, cheap grain could be imported. The agricultural cooperatives were founded out of necessity as a self-help organization for farmers. These merged to form associations at the end of the 19th century. Fenaco was founded in 1993 from the merger of six of these agricultural cooperative associations.

Today (2020) they own 183 agricultural cooperatives (Landi) and the Fenaco cooperative with over 80 business and service units.

Web links

Commons : Fenaco - collection of images, videos and audio files

Fenaco website
Werner Baumann: Agricultural cooperatives. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ fenaco cooperative. Commercial register office of the Canton of Bern, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
↑ Numbers and facts. fenaco cooperative, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
↑ Angelica Filippi: Fenaco takes over Bison, Fehlmann takes his hat. Swiss IT Media GmbH, October 22, 2014, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
↑ Thomas Angeli, Otto Hostettler: The power of the farmers. The agricultural lobby has built a parallel universe. With resounding success: it nips every saving idea in the bud and channels the financial flows in their direction. In: Observer 20/2016 of September 30, 2016, pp. 22–23.
↑ Fenaco: Largest photovoltaic system. In: schweizerbauer.ch . October 1, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
↑ Fenaco gives up Biomill. In: schweizerbauer.ch. October 3, 2018, accessed April 2, 2020 .
^ Provins: Fenaco takes over majority. In: schweizerbauer.ch. March 12, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 .
↑ About fenaco. fenaco cooperative, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
↑ Organization & structure. fenaco cooperative, accessed on May 20, 2020 .

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