Usego
The Usego was a Swiss until 2003/2005 retail companies .
It was founded in 1907 as the central purchasing and logistics company for independent retailers in Switzerland . In addition to the consumer associations (today Coop ) and Migros , which was founded much later, the up to 4,000 Usego stores have been part of the retail network in Switzerland for decades. Most of the independent small-scale grocery stores in the cities and rural communities obtained goods through the Usego.
history
The later Usego was founded in 1907 in Lucerne under the name Zentralschweizerischekaufgesellschaft Union . From 1910 to 1972 the company was officially called Union Swiss Purchasing Company Olten , from which the short form Usego is derived.
Since 1910, Usego has been supplying the retailers affiliated to the company with wholesale goods from Olten , initially from a small warehouse at Olten train station and since 1923 from its own large business and warehouse on the Olten-Wangen railway line. Usego set up its own coffee roastery in this main factory of Fritz von Niederhäusern . In the following decades, Usego set up logistics centers in Winterthur, Lausanne, Sierre, Bironico, Egerkingen, Landquart and Bussigny, among others.
Both the Denner founder Karl Schweri and the Pick-Pay owner Beat Curti tried in the 1980s to establish a so-called “third force in the retail trade” (alongside the two major distributors Migros and Coop) by taking over Usego. From 1972 to 1996 the company name was Usego-Trimerco Holding (UTH) . Usego Hofer Curti AG (UHC) was created through the merger of UTH with Hofer & Curti AG in 1996 . This merged with Bon appétit Holding AG in 1999 , creating the Bon appétit Group (BAG) . In 2003, Bon appétit was taken over by the German Rewe Group and supplies to the independent retailers - which now operated under the Primo and Vis-à-vis brands - were discontinued. Usego as a legal entity was liquidated by Rewe in 2005, while the Primo and Vis-à-vis brands were sold to Volg .
literature
- Peter Kaiser, Bruno Meier (Ed.): 100 years of Usego. A search for clues. Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-03-919067-6 (volume accompanying the exhibition in the Historisches Museum Olten from November 22, 2007 to March 30, 2008).
- Bruno Meier: Usego. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 19th February 2013 .
Web links
- Usego holdings in the Swiss Economic Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Usego holdings in the Swiss Economic Archives
- ↑ Bruno Meier: Usego. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 19th February 2013 .