Migros Basel Cooperative

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Migros Basel Cooperative

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legal form cooperative
founding 1941
Seat Basel , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management
  • Stefano Patrignani (Chief Executive Officer )
  • Werner Krättli
    (President of Administration)
  • Monika Guth (President of the Cooperative Council)
Number of employees 3'442 (2'473 FTE )
sales 925.2 million CHF
Branch Retail trade , gastronomy
Website Migros Basel
Status: 2019

The Migros Cooperative Basel is one of ten cooperatives of Migros , the largest retail company of Switzerland . It is based in Basel and is a legally independent company within the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB). Migros Basel was created in 1941 from the conversion of a branch of Migros AG founded in 1930 . In terms of sales, it is the seventh largest of all Migros cooperatives.

Organization and key figures

The catchment area of ​​the Migros Basel cooperative includes the cantons of Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt , the districts of Delémont and Porrentruy in the canton of Jura , the eastern part of the Bernese Jura in the canton of Bern and the Schwarzbubenland in the canton of Solothurn . It holds a share of 10.0% in the cooperative capital of the FMC. In 2019, Migros Basel had 169,508 cooperative members, who are represented by a cooperative council with 58 members that is newly elected every four years. Nine of the council members are also delegates to the delegates' assembly of the MGB. In 2019, 3,442 employees generated sales of 925.2 million francs . The headquarters of the cooperative is the branch at Claraplatz in Kleinbasel , the operations center is in Münchenstein .

Business activity

The Migros Basel cooperative includes:

Dinosaur sculpture on the grounds of the Green 80

The cooperative is also responsible for the maintenance of the Green 80 amusement park on the Brüglinger Ebene near Münchenstein on behalf of the Park im Grünen Foundation, which was established in 1978 by the MGB .

history

On February 10, 1930, Migros founded a branch in the city of Basel (still managed from Zurich until December 5 ). She opened the first two stores in early May. After vans had been leaving without a permit on May 12 , the government council of the canton of Basel-Stadt imposed a monthly fee of CHF 150 per car on July 1. Migros appealed and the administrative court ruled on March 27, 1931 that the fees were illegal. In the meantime, Migros has opened additional stores in north-western Switzerland and in the French-speaking part of the canton of Bern . As of January 29, 1932, the court ruling contradicted a ruling by the Federal Supreme Court that equated Migros sales vehicles with peddler trade. The government council then submitted a change in the law that would burden the “peddler trade in the broader sense” with a maximum of CHF 600 per month. After the Grand Council approved it with 56 to 39 votes in December 1933, the Social Democrats and Communists called the referendum . In the referendum of March 11, 1934, the new law was adopted with 18,692 votes to 15,283. In view of the tight result, the police department set the monthly fee at CHF 100 per car, which Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler expressly described as fair.

In the canton of Basel-Landschaft , Migros met with much more resistance from traders and their political allies, but also from the general consumer association (forerunner of Coop ). On May 20, 1930, Migros asked for a sales car permit, but the police department refused. Without waiting for the decision on their immediate appeal, the cars drove out, which resulted in a lawsuit. In October 1931 the government council presented a bill providing for fees between 400 and 6000 francs per year plus community fees of the same amount. In March 1932, the district administrator approved the change with 58 votes to 0. In the referendum of April 24, 1932, the Migros opponents prevailed elatively with 6,826 to 6,312 votes. The government council set an annual fee of 3200 francs plus 800 francs for the passenger, which Migros thought was too high. That is why she launched a legislative initiative to lower the maximum rate to 2,000 francs. The well-organized opposition disrupted Duttweiler's public appearances during the polemical referendum battle. On May 28, 1933, Migros suffered a defeat when the initiative failed with 13,278 votes to 6,826. As a result, on August 8, it stopped the vending cars from leaving for several decades. In the cantons of Berne and Solothurn , it renounced the outpatient trade .

When the Federal Council extended the branch ban on November 10, 1933 to include branches of large companies in the food retail sector, Migros had to close several stores that had been open since September 5. In the greater Basel area, this affected the branches in Birsfelden , Pratteln and Rheinfelden . Basel-Stadt was the only canton to exercise its right to grant special permits for new openings and expansions. In particular, the social democratic government councilor Gustav Wenk campaigned for new Migros branches. In his opinion, it is not large companies that are responsible for the crisis in the retail trade, but the excessive number of small shops. The Basel branch was transformed into a cooperative on January 28, 1941. She continued to look after the branches in Olten and Solothurn until the Migros Solothurn cooperative was founded on November 22 of the same year . Until 1946, Basel was also the seat of the Migros Aargau cooperative founded in 1942 ; From there, the branches in Aarau and Zofingen were also supplied by the end of June 1949 .

Former Migros branch in Lörrach (2012)

With the elimination of the branch ban, there were no longer any limits to expansion from 1945 onwards. On April 30, 1952, the cooperative opened Europe's first supermarket on Basler Eisengasse , and the first shopping center in its catchment area opened in 1975 in Allschwil . In 1962 the cooperative moved into a new distribution center in Birsfelden, which, however, was soon unable to keep pace with the rapid growth. For this reason she set up a new headquarters in Münchenstein ; the first departments moved there in August 1977, and the move was completed in March 1978. Tinguely -Brunnen In 1977, the cooperative donated the carnival fountain created by Jean Tinguely to the city of Basel . In 1980, on behalf of the Park im Grünen Foundation, it undertook to maintain the grounds of Grün 80 for a period of at least a hundred years and to make it available to the public.

In 1991 the delegates' assembly of the MGB allowed the individual cooperatives to expand abroad. As the second cooperative after Geneva , Migros Basel dared to take this step four years later in order to counteract the outflow of purchasing power as a result of increasing shopping tourism. She founded a subsidiary called Migros Deutschland GmbH based in Lörrach , which opened its first branch there on September 15, 1995. In 2001 and 2002, locations in Bad Säckingen and Freiburg im Breisgau were added, in 2008 in Reutlingen , 2010 in Ludwigshafen and 2011 in Ludwigsburg . The branch in Bad Säckingen had to be closed in 2008 due to a lack of profitability, and in 2012 the one in Reutlingen as well. The four other branches (including two in-house bakeries) were sold to the Rewe Group with effect from October 1, 2013 , and the restaurant and take-away in Freiburg, which are attached to the Loerrach branch, had to be closed. In September 2019, Migros Basel put its first electric truck into operation. She is currently building a vertical farming system with Growcer on the Wolf site in Basel. The first products from this soilless culture , such as leafy vegetables and herbs, are to be offered in the MParc Dreispitz in 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Migros Basel Cooperative. Commercial register of the canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2019 (PDF; 4.4 MB) Migros Cooperative Basel, 2020, accessed on March 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Organization & structure. In: Annual Report 2018. Federation of Migros Cooperatives, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Alfred A. Häsler : The Migros Adventure. The 60 year old idea . Ed .: Federation of Migros Cooperatives. Migros Presse, Zurich 1985, p. 349 .
  5. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 151-152, 297.
  6. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 152-153.
  7. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 156-158.
  8. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 300.
  9. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 153.
  10. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 309.
  11. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 164.
  12. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 154-155.
  13. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 346.
  14. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 349.
  15. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: Migros gives up branches in Germany. Handelszeitung , June 18, 2013, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Another failed Migros engagement abroad. Tages-Anzeiger , November 3, 2013, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Olivia Meier: Forward in Elektro-Laschti: This is how Migros Basel wants to save the climate. In: bzbasel.ch . September 28, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Vertical Farming - Migros Basel and Growcer launch joint project. In: migros.ch. January 15, 2020, accessed January 16, 2020 .