General assembly of delegates of Coop members from all over Liguria at the Magazzini del Cotone in Genoa, during which the cooperative’s budget was formally approved. A precious contribution, that of the members, which thanks to the vote on the budget turns into 136,500 euros which return from the company to the territory.
This year, thanks to the 27,295 who participated in the vote – one of the highest results ever recorded – the donation will amount to 136,500 euros. The sum will be divided into two strands: 70,000 euros, equal to the 2023 donation, will be distributed to the seventy associations with which Coop Liguria collaborates continuously in the various territories with the Buon Fine and Dona la Spesa projects and which work to support families in difficulty . The remaining amount will instead be used to finance specific projects on the topic of fighting poverty presented by the associations themselves, which will be chosen by the cooperative and then voted on by the members.
Also on the occasion of the meeting, Coop Liguria delivered two other donations to projects it has decided to support: 19,600 euros, together with Genoa, to Ricibo and then 20,400 euros to Gaslininsieme, to finance the “Epilepsy Surgery” projectaimed at young patients whose epilepsy cannot be treated with drugs alone.
thanks to the collaboration on the sticker project, Coop Liguria has joined the solidarity initiative “Punto e a…iuto” of Genoa Cfc, with which the club has committed to donating 200 euros to the Ricibo network for each point won in the championship, providing a donation of the same amount. Thanks to the 49 points gained by Genoa, therefore, the overall donation was 19,600 euros (half donated by Genoa and half by Coop Liguria), used to support the work carried out by the network in support of dozens of associations involved in the fight against poverty.
“We never forget that we are a cooperative whose mission is to generate value in the territory – explained the president of Coop Liguria, Roberto Pittalis – For this reason, five years ago now, we coined the formula ‘One vote, one meal’, which has had extraordinary success, managing to constantly increase members’ participation in voting, up to this year’s unprecedented result. Again to be consistent with our social mission, we wanted to attribute a solidarity value also to a recreational activity such as the sale of stickers, choosing to donate the donation to Gaslini, because we know the fundamental work it carries out in the field of pediatric care and because it is a Ligurian excellence known throughout Europe. With Ricibo, however, we have been collaborating for a very long time as part of the ‘Buon Fine’ project, with which we continuously donate products with damaged packaging or those close to expiry to our stores. For this reason, when we learned that Genoa supported the goal, we chose to join their project too.”
At the end of 2023 there were 401,692 Coop Liguria members, of which 85,719 lenders: one Ligurian in four, as a member, was able to take advantage of dedicated discounts, agreements and interest on social loan deposits. Furthermore, in the last year, thanks to initiatives to contain inflation, Coop – which again this year closed the balance sheet with 10 million euros of profit – recorded 74 million euros in savings for members and customers. In fact, in 2023 it absorbed part of the increases requested by producers, only partially passing them on to sales prices, and from October it joined the anti-inflation quarter, lowering the price of 200 Coop products and blocking the price of another 1,000 products for three months .
