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EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY REPORT 2019 REPORT 2019 EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY www.monitor.coop Titolo capitolo 1 THE 2019 WORLD Bruno Roelants THE WORLD COOPERATIVE MONITOR IS AN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE INITIATIVE WITH THE SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT OF EURICSE COOPERATIVE MONITOR Gianluca Salvatori EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF OUR ORGANISATIONAL PARTNERS The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the We have also continued in this year’s report with the analysis European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social of the contribution of the Top 300 to meeting the objectives of the Enterprises (Euricse) are pleased to present the eighth UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Utilizing documents annual World Cooperative Monitor report. This publica - reported in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) format, we ana- tion reports on the world’s largest cooperatives and mu - lysed indicators related to SDG 8 (inclusive and sustainable eco- tuals, or groups of cooperatives and mutuals, providing nomic growth, full and productive employment and decent work rankings of the Top 300 and sectoral analysis based on for all) to demonstrate the concrete actions taken by the Top 300 2017 financial data. towards meeting this goal. Three cases in particular related to SDG 8 are explored within the report: Up Groupe (France), KRIB- This year we have included additional data collection: HCO (India), and SOK (Finland). These cases present initiatives employment figures, cooperative type, and classification that cooperatives have implemented not only internally, but in of economic activity. The changes are discussed more ful- the community and along entire supply chains. ly in the methodology section, but our aim is to go beyond the Top 300 ranking based on turnover to explore more We would especially like to thank all of the contributors and fully the dynamics of the cooperative movement. And this collaborators, the organisations that provided their data, and the FOR INFORMATION CONTACT is a step in that direction. supporters of this year’s World Cooperative Monitor. www.monitor.coop [email protected] 3 INDEX WCM 2019 6 2017 HIGHLIGHTS WCM database and key results 16 SECTOR RANKINGS Agriculture and Food Industries Industry and Utilities Wholesale and Retail Trade Insurance Financial Service Education, Health and Social Work Other services 32 TOP 300 AND SDG 8 The Top 300 and SDG 8: contributions to inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Interview with Diana Dovgan (CICOPA) Case stories from Up Group, SOK, KRIBHCO 58 METHODOLOGY Methodology and Data Sources 67 TOP 300: RANKINGS AND EMPLOYMENT DATA Top 300 Rankings by Turnover in USD with employment data Top 300 Rankings by Turnover over GDP per capita 120 TEAM, ADVISORY COMMITTEE, ORGANISATIONAL PARTNERS The World Cooperative Monitor team and advisory committee Promoters and Organisational partners EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY REPORT 2019 2017 HIGHLIGHTS TOP 300 BASED ON TURNOVER IN USD AND KEY RESULTS TOP 300 TOTAL TURNOVER: 2,034.98 BILLION US$ The World Cooperative Monitor is a project designed institutes, and other organisations, and the use of a TOP 300 TURNOVER USD to collect robust economic, organisational, and social questionnaire to collect data directly from enterprises. Geographical distribution data about cooperatives, mutual organisations and Euricse makes every effort to then complete the dataset EUROPE non-cooperative enterprises controlled by coopera- through online research and consultation of financial _ tives worldwide. It is the only report of its kind collect- statements and annual reports. France 38 ing annual quantitative data on the global cooperative Germany 30 Netherlands 18 movement. In total this year’s database contains 4,575 organisa- Italy 14 tions: 1,152 from Europe, 3,218 from Americas, 197 Finland 10 The data collected for the 2019 edition of the World Co- from Asia-Pacific, and 8 from Africa. Data collection Denmark 7 operative Monitor is from the year 2017. The primary is concentrated on the world’s largest cooperative Norway 7 Sweden 7 sources of data include existing databases of economic and mutual organisations; 1,049 of the organisations in UK 7 data, data collected by national associations, research the database have a turnover over 100 million USD. Switzerland 6 Austria 5 Belgium 4 Spain 4 DATA FOR 2017 COMES FROM: Ireland 1 Poland 1 Total 159 74.4% 21.7% 3.5% 0.4% Private Existing Desk Submitted AMERICAS databases rankings research _ USA 85 ASIA-PACIFIC Canada 8 _ Brazil 5 Japan 18 Argentina 2 New Zealand 7 This report presents rankings based on turnover as well as the ratio of turnover over Gross Domestic Prod- Total 100 Australia 6 Republic of Korea 4 uct (GDP) per capita. The ratio of turnover over GDP per capita measures the turnover of the Top 300 coop- India 2 erative and mutual enterprises in terms of the purchasing power of an economy, relating the turnover Singapore 2 of the enterprise to the wealth of the country. It does not compute the contribution of each enterprise Malaysia 1 to the national GDP. Rather, it measures the size of the enterprise in its national context. Saudi Arabia 1 Total 41 6 2017 Highlights 2017 Highlights 7 EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY REPORT 2019 TOP 300 TURNOVER USD TOP 300 TURNOVER USD Economic activities Top 10 53 RANK ORGANISATION COUNTRY ECONOMIC TYPE TURNOVER 2017 NUMBER OF FTE vs (17.7%) 2017 ACTIVITY (BILLION US$) EMPLOYEES 2017 HEADCOUNT 1 Groupe Crédit France consumer/ 96.25 139,000 FTE 95 Agricole user (31.7%) 5 2 Groupe BPCE France consumer/ 59.03 106,463 Headcount (1.7%) user 3 REWE Group Germany producer 55.85 345,434 Headcount 3 (1%) 4 BVR Germany consumer/ 55.29 177,248 Headcount user 21 5 Zenkyoren Japan producer 51.69 6,282 Headcount 117 (7%) (39%) 2 6 Nippon Life Japan mutual 48.36 86,394 Headcount (0.7%) 3 7 State Farm USA mutual 42.42 65,664 (1%) 1 8 ACDLEC - E. France producer 42.01 Leclerc (0.3%) 9 Zen-Noh Japan producer 41.37 7,446 Headcount 10 Nonghyup Republic of producer 38.82 100,594 Headcount (NACF) Korea SECTOR LEGEND AGRICULTURE AND FOOD INDUSTRIES INDUSTRY EDUCATION, HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK INSURANCE FINANCIAL SERVICE UTILITIES FISHING WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE HOUSING OTHER SERVICES 8 2017 Highlights 2017 Highlights 9 EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY REPORT 2019 TOP 300 BASED ON TURNOVER OVER GDP PER CAPITA TOP 300 TURNOVER USD TOP 300 TURNOVER/GDP PER CAPITA Type Geographical distribution AMERICAS Consumer/user 62 Worker 6 _ EUROPE USA 53 _ Colombia 10 France 38 Multistakeholder Mutual 1 99 Canada 8 Germany 28 Argentina 7 Italy 17 Producer Non coop Brazil 6 Netherlands 14 119 13 Bolivia 1 Finland 10 Costa Rica 1 Sweden 7 Jamaica 1 UK 7 Mexico 1 Denmark 6 Uruguay 1 Austria 5 TOP 300 GROUPED BY TURNOVER BRACKET (USD) Total 89 Switzerland 5 Belgium 4 Norway 4 30-100 BLN 15 Spain 4 Poland 2 10-30 BLN 34 Turkey 2 Ireland 1 5-10 BLN 47 Total 154 2-5 BLN 98 0-2 BLN 106 ASIA-PACIFIC _ Japan 18 India 14 AFRICA: _ New Zealand 6 South Africa 3 Republic of Korea 4 Kenya 2 Australia 3 Algeria 1 Singapore 2 Total 6 China 1 Malaysia 1 Philippines 1 Saudi Arabia 1 Total 51 10 2017 Highlights 2017 Highlights 11 EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY REPORT 2019 TOP 300 TURNOVER/GDP PER CAPITA TOP 300 TURNOVER/GDP PER CAPITA Economic activities Top 10 RANK ORGANISATION COUNTRY ECONOMIC TYPE TURNOVER/GDP NUMBER OF FTE vs 52 2017 ACTIVITY PER CAPITA 2017 EMPLOYEES 2017 HEADCOUNT (17.3%) 86 1 Groupe Crédit France consumer/ 2,488,506.09 139,000 FTE 2 Agricole user (28.7%) (0.7%) 2 Gujarat Cooperative India producer 2,266,597.01 2 Milk Marketing Federation Limited (0.7%) 6 3 IFFCO - Indian India producer 1,823,659.36 5,012 Headcount Farmers Fertiliser (2%) Cooperative Limited 114 33 4 Groupe BPCE France consumer/ 1,526,215.18 106,463 Headcount (38%) (11%) user 4 1 5 Zenkyoren Japan producer 1,348,530.03 6,282 Headcount (0.3%) (1.3%) 6 Nonghyup (NACF) Republic of producer 1,305,160.83 100,594 Headcount Korea 7 Nippon Life Japan mutual 1,261,680.79 86,394 Headcount TOP 300 TURNOVER/GDP PER CAPITA 8 REWE Group Germany producer 1,249,940.90 345,434 Headcount Type 9 BVR Germany consumer/ 1,237,389.47 177,248 Headcount Consumer/user 75 Mutual 92 user Producer 10 ACDLEC - E. France producer 1,086,188.90 107 Non coop 16 Leclerc Worker 10 12 2017 Highlights 2017 Highlights 13 EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY REPORT 2019 UK France Japan The UK Co-operative La cooperation agricole et agroalimentaire, Top 10 Community-Based Economy report – published Panorama and Les 100 plus grandes entreprises Retail Co-ops in Japan – by Co-operatives UK coopératives françaises – published by CoopFR published by JCCU NATIONAL RANKINGS USA Top 100 Agriculture Cooperatives - The highlighted countries publish published by United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA) or have recently published Spain Malaysia a national ranking of the largest NCB Co-op 100 - published by National Listado de empresas más relevantes de la Top 100 cooperatives in Malaysia – Cooperative Bank (NCB) cooperatives or a report on their Economía social – published by CEPES published by Suruhanjaya Koperasi country’s cooperative movement Malaysia (SKM) including rankings based on turnover of cooperatives. The World Cooperative Monitor encourages national organisations and federations at all levels to collect as much data as possible. Colombia Australia If you would like assistance Desempeño Sector Cooperativo Colombiano National Mutual Economy Report – published by Confecoop - Confederación de – published by Business Council of creating your national ranking Cooperativas de Colombia Co-operatives and Mutuals or report, we are available to assist you and to share our methodology.
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