Migros Valais Cooperative
| Migros Valais Cooperative
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| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1955 |
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Martigny , Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 1,593 |
| sales | 498.7 million CHF |
| Branch | Retail trade , gastronomy |
| Website | Migros Wallis |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Migros Cooperative Valais ( French Société Coopérative Migros Valais ) is one of ten cooperatives of Migros , the largest retail company of Switzerland . It is based in Martigny and is a legally independent company within the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB). In terms of turnover, Migros Wallis, founded in 1955, is the second smallest of all Migros cooperatives.
Organization and key figures
The catchment area of the Migros Wallis cooperative encompasses the entire canton of Valais . It holds a share of 1.7% in the MGB's cooperative capital. In 2018 Migros Wallis counted 80,487 members of the cooperative, who are represented by a cooperative council that is newly elected every four years and has 30 members (ten each from Upper, Central and Lower Valais). Six of the council members are also delegates to the delegates' assembly of the MGB. In 2018, 1,593 employees generated sales of CHF 498.7 million . The headquarters of the cooperative is the distribution center in Martigny .
Business activity
The Migros Wallis cooperative includes:
- 28 supermarkets and shopping centers
- 11 specialist stores (1 Do it + Garden, 1 Micasa , 5 Melectronics, 4 SportXX )
- 2 outlet centers
- 11 Migros partner shops
- 7 restaurants (Migros restaurant)
- 4 Migros club schools
history
The Société Coopérative Migros Lausanne opened the first Migros branch in Martigny on August 1, 1951 in the canton of Valais, with a sales area of only 60 m². In the two following years branches were added in Brig , Monthey , Sierre and Sion . In order to better anchor the company in the population, the Migros Wallis cooperative was founded on November 5, 1955, in the presence of Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler and his wife Adele . The new cooperative put its first sales car into operation on August 6, 1956 to serve the many remote mountain villages. In the same year she bought a fifth of the Valais fruit and vegetable production. She opened her first own shop in Visp in 1959 , while significantly expanding the existing ones.
The canton and municipalities demanded such high fees for the vending vehicles that Migros took legal action against it and was ruled by the federal court . It was also often difficult to find suitable stops as the local traders put heavy pressure on the landowners. Regardless of this, the sales vehicles pushed into Goms in 1963 . In the same year, the cooperative gained full organizational and operational independence from Lausanne. In 1964, five vending vehicles (two of which were self-service) served a total of 166 villages and covered more than 400 km a week. After there had previously only been Migros branches in the Rhone Valley , the first branch in the mountain area was added in 1967 with the branch in Crans-Montana .
In 1981 the Migros Wallis cooperative employed more than a thousand people for the first time. Two years later, she entered into collaborations with independent food retailers and has been supplying them with products ever since. During the floods of September 24, 1993, the Saltina overflowed its banks and the masses of mud devastated the branch near the Brig train station. Customers and staff were able to get to the first floor of the adjacent club school just in time. As of 2001, Migros Wallis was the only Migros Group cooperative that still served peripheral regions with sales vehicles. The last two were taken out of service in Upper Valais on November 30, 2007, which marked the end of an important era in Swiss retailing.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Société coopérative Migros Valais. Commercial register of the Canton of Valais, accessed on November 8, 2019 (French).
- ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2018. Migros Wallis Cooperative, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Organization & structure. In: Annual Report 2018. Federation of Migros Cooperatives, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ^ Alfred A. Häsler : The Migros Adventure. The 60 year old idea . Ed .: Federation of Migros Cooperatives. Migros Presse, Zurich 1985, p. 182-183 .
- ^ History of Migros Wallis: 1955-1959. Migros Wallis Cooperative, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ^ History of Migros Wallis: 1960-1964. Migros Wallis Cooperative, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ^ History of Migros Wallis: 1965-1969. Migros Wallis Cooperative, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ^ History of Migros Wallis: 1980-1984. Migros Wallis Cooperative, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ^ History of Migros Wallis: 1990-1994. Migros Wallis Cooperative, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ How two Migros cars sell traffic history. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 24, 2009, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
