Société coopérative Migros Vaud
| Société Coopérative Migros Vaud
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| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1946 |
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Ecublens , Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 3,459 |
| sales | 1.12 billion CHF |
| Branch | Retail trade , gastronomy |
| Website | Migros Vaud |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Société Coopérative Migros Vaud ( German Cooperative Migros Vaud ) is one of ten cooperatives of Migros , the largest retail company in Switzerland . It is based in Ecublens and is a legally independent company within the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB). In terms of turnover, Migros Vaud, founded in 1946, is the fifth largest of all Migros cooperatives.
Organization and key figures
The catchment area of the Société coopérative Migros Vaud includes the canton of Vaud (excluding the regions around Avenches and Nyon ) and, in the canton of Friborg, the region around Estavayer-le-Lac . It holds 4.8% of the MGB's cooperative capital. In 2018, Migros Waadt had 152,515 cooperative members, who are represented by a cooperative council with 47 members that is newly elected every four years. Nine of the council members are also delegates to the delegates' assembly of the MGB. In 2018, 3,459 employees generated sales of 1.123 billion Swiss francs . The headquarters of the cooperative is the distribution center in Ecublens .
Business activity
The Société Coopérative Migros Vaud includes:
- 53 supermarkets and shopping centers
- 13 specialist stores (1 Do it + Garden, 5 Melectronics, 2 Obi , 5 SportXX )
- 3 outlet centers
- 11 Migros partner shops
- 28 catering establishments (Migros restaurant, Migros take-away, M-Bars à café, Coffee & Time, catering)
- 3 Migros club schools
- 1 training center
- 1 fitness center
- 1 golf course (Signal de Bougy)
The cooperative is also responsible for the maintenance of the Signal de Bougy amusement park in the municipality of Bougy-Villars on behalf of the Parc Pré Vert du Signal de Bougy foundation founded by the MGB in 1970 .
history
The first attempt by Migros to establish itself in the canton of Vaud failed. On July 17, 1933, Gottlieb Duttweiler wanted to present the motives and goals of his company at a public event in Lausanne , but was prevented from speaking by an incited crowd. Two days later, the Migros Lausanne SA branch was founded , which rented a shop and began to hire staff. On July 23, over 3,000 traders and grocers at a meeting called for Migros to be prevented. They asked the State Council to intervene so that the branch ban , which had not yet come into force, would also be applied to Migros. The State Council forced Duttweiler to promise to hold off before opening shops. This led to negotiations between Duttweiler, the Vaudois Chamber of Commerce and Federal Councilor Edmund Schulthess . The Federal Council did not want to include Migros in the branch ban because otherwise consumer cooperatives would also have been affected. The Vaudois, however, categorically demanded a ban and were not prepared to compromise. As a result, the Federal Council's mediation efforts failed and Migros withdrew, especially since it was subject to the branch ban across Switzerland from November 10th.
Two members of the Grand Council submitted a legislative initiative in November 1945. Despite the lifting of the branch ban at the federal level, it should still be possible to prevent branch operations (in particular by companies outside the canton) "to defend medium-sized businesses". The Grand Council approved by a majority and set the referendum for November 17, 1946. Meanwhile, on October 28th, the Société Coopérative Migros Lausanne was founded , which immediately made itself felt in the voting campaign. With 33,500 to 31,900 votes, the initiative was ultimately narrowly rejected and the first shop was opened on November 25 on Rue Mauborget in Lausanne.
Even after that, the harassment of competitors and associations continued for some time, but Migros increased its sales in the canton of Vaud by a hundredfold within twenty years. With the opening of a branch in Martigny on August 1, 1951, the cooperative advanced into the canton of Valais . Although the Migros Wallis cooperative was founded in 1955 , Lausanne remained organizationally and operationally responsible in Valais until 1963. The distribution center in Ecublens went into operation in 1967, and on January 1, 1973, the cooperative was renamed Société coopérative Migros Vaud according to its catchment area . On April 26, 1991, she bought a shopping center in Romanel-sur-Lausanne from the French retail group Carrefour .
Web links
- Société coopérative Migros Vaud (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Société Coopérative Migros Vaud. Commercial Register of the Canton of Vaud, accessed on November 8, 2019 (French).
- ↑ a b c d Rapport annuel 2018. Société Coopérative Migros Vaud, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 (French).
- ↑ 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. 176 .
- ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 178-179.
- ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 182.
- ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 332.
- ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 180.
- ^ Migros -Genossenschafts-Bund (Ed.): Chronicle of Migros 1925–2012 - Portrait of a dynamic company . Zurich 2013, p. 75 ( online ).
