Our milestones

We were the first retailer in Switzerland to introduce a project for living wages in the Dominican Republic together with Fairtrade Max Havelaar. With additional projects in Ghana and Honduras, we are pursuing our goal of improving the income situation of smallholder farmers and enabling a decent standard of living in the long term.

As a hydrogen pioneer, we are going one step further and commissioning seven of the world's first mass-produced hydrogen-powered trucks in 2020. These will help us to save around 80 tonnes of CO₂ per truck per year – a significant contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Our new packaging roadmap summarizes our efforts in the area of packaging reduction: Packaging is due to be optimized and, by 2026, we should be saving around 20% of plastic in packaging and single-use items. Processes from suppliers to sales outlets are being increasingly considered as cycles, recyclable materials are being reused and material loss is being continuously reduced.

We were the first major retailer in Switzerland to be certified for our commitment to fair wages. The «Fair Compensation» certificate confirms that our remuneration policy satisfies the criteria for compliance with fair wages, ensuring all of our employees receive the same chances regardless of gender and background.

25 years of Coop Naturaline: Since 1995, we have focused on environmentally and socially responsible textile production with Coop Naturaline. Today, Naturaline offers the world's largest range of fair and environmentally-friendly organic cotton textiles. Naturaline is synonymous with 100% fair production, transparency in the supply chain and CO₂ neutrality.

Coop is increasing the minimum requirements for the production of conventional milk. The new milk programme is strongly based on sustainability and even better animal welfare. Swiss farmers will also benefit from this change, as the new milk programme will guarantee them a higher income.

Coop is in the leading group (Tier 1) of the international Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW) for the fifth time in a row. No other company in Switzerland has ever achieved this feat.

We are starting our palm oil offensive and will in future also use organic palm oil from systematically sustainable production in our conventional own-label brands too.

25 years of Naturaplan: we are celebrating the birthday of our largest own-label sustainability brand with numerous measures and the launch of over 350 new Naturaplan products. As such, the Naturaplan range now comprises more than 2 500 products.

In January 2018, Coop joined the «Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa». The newly-founded association is committed to ensuring that, in future, the majority of all imported products containing cocoa are sustainably produced.

Since 2016, all fish and seafood has come from 100 % sustainable sources – whether fresh, frozen, tinned or in the restaurant. We also offer the largest selection of organic-grade seafood in Switzerland:

At Railcare, we are introducing a world first: we now chill our food with electricity generated via the axles while in transit. This enables us to reduce diesel consumption for refrigeration by 75 percent per container wagon.

As in 2013 we again achieve an excellent score in the «Animal Welfare in Retail 2015/2016» report of Swiss Animal Protection (SAP). We also take first place in the international animal welfare rating BBFAW for the fourth consecutive year.

We open Switzerland’s first public hydrogen filling station in Hunzenschwil (AG). At the same time the first hydrogen-powered truck and several company cars are integrated into our fleet.

Wholesale is setting new standards in terms of sustainability and developing the Transgourmet own-label brand «Ursprung» into a Group-wide own-label sustainability brand.