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| Legacoop Emilia Romagna |
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| Background information |
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Legacoop Emilia Romagna is the main organisation representing co-operatives in Emilia Romagna and uniting co-operatives and their economic subsidiaries in various sectors. This Italian region is home to the country’s highest rate of co-operation. Legacoop Emilia Romagna brings together 1,500 enterprises, representing more than 2.5 million members, 156,000 employees and € 30 billion of production value. The current co-operative enterprise situation is the result of a process which began in the 1850s.
Legacoop Emilia Romagna covers the entire region and all economic sectors (industrial, agricultural and service sectors), responsible for organising co-operative - based solutions to meet the needs of their members (producers, workers, consumers, inhabitants, users, retailers), with a carefully structured network of local and sector-based Legacoop units which work in a co-ordinated fashion.
Legacoop Association represents co-operatives in dealing with the authorities, other business organisations and workers’ trade unions.
One of the missions of Legacoop is to promote the co-operative movement. For that purpose, Legacoop Emilia Romagna has recently launched a dedicated website, www.farecooperativa.it, through which it proposes a path for approaching co-operation for all of those people potentially interested in obtaining more information, and also for all individuals who are ready to take direct action.
The association is also tasked with qualifying and innovating its own enterprise system, through high standard services supplied to the co-operatives by the consulting structures for economic and entrepreneurial development. |
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