Coop (Switzerland)

Coop Genossenschaft
Coop société coopérative
Coop società cooperativa
Company typeCooperative
IndustryWholesale distribution
PredecessorVSK/USC (founded in 1890)
Founded1969 (1969)
Headquarters,
Key people
Joos Sutter
(Chairman of the Executive Committee)
Hansueli Loosli
(Chairman of the Board of Directors)
Revenue30.7 billion CHF (2019)
Members2,500,000
Number of employees
90,307 (2019)
Websitecoop.ch

Coop (German pronunciation: [ˈkoʔop]) is one of Switzerland's largest retail and wholesale companies. It is structured in the form of a cooperative society with around 2.5 million members. The company has no relationship to other similarly-named supermarket chains in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Italy or the Netherlands.

As of 2019, Coop operated 2,478 shops and employed more than 90,000 people in Switzerland.