Italy Food Retailers

Agorà Network is an Italian retail and purchasing organization bringing together independent distribution companies operating through different supermarket, hypermarket, discount and cash & carry formats.

Member companies:

• Gruppo Poli – Poli, MiniPoli, IperPoli, Regina, Orvea, IperOrvea, C+C Amort and C+C Italmarket
• Iperal Supermercati – Iperal and Gran Mercato
• Rossetto Trade – Iper Rossetto and Super Rossetto
• Sogegross – Basko, Doro, Ekom and GrosMarket
• Tigros – Tigros

Private labels: Primia, Primia Sense, Spesa Leggera, Via Verde Bio Primia and Percorsi di Gusto Primia.

Geographical presence: Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and Aosta Valley.

Consorzio Nazionale Dettaglianti, the national cooperative organization coordinating the Conad retail system and its member cooperatives.

Consorzio C3 is an Italian retail consortium bringing together independent food distribution companies operating across a wide range of retail and wholesale formats.

Its member companies operate through supermarkets, superstores, hypermarkets, neighbourhood stores, distribution centres and cash & carry outlets under numerous local and regional banners.

Main retail banners: Vivo Supermercati, Vivo Mio and other independent regional and local banners operated by the consortium's member companies.

Private label: Noi&Voi

Consorzio Coralis is an Italian retail consortium bringing together independent distribution companies operating through supermarkets, neighbourhood stores, distribution centres and cash & carry outlets.

Retail banner: L'Alimentari Italiano

Private labels: Bontò, Verdeblu, Bontà Artigiana and Todo.

Geographical presence: Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Puglia, Calabria, Campania, Sicily and Sardinia.

Coop Italia is the national consortium of Italian consumer cooperatives and performs central functions including purchasing negotiations, marketing strategies and the development of Coop private-label products.

Main associated consumer cooperatives include:

• Coop Alleanza 3.0
• Coop Liguria
• Coop Lombardia
• Nova Coop
• Unicoop Firenze
• Unicoop Etruria
• Coop Reno
• Coop Unione Amiatina
• SAIT – Consorzio delle Cooperative di Consumo Trentine

Central organization of the CRAI distribution network, coordinating commercial activities and services for the companies and retailers operating under the CRAI system.

Cooperative distribution group operating through the Sigma and Sisa networks and participating in centralized purchasing activities through Forum.

National consortium coordinating the companies operating the Despar brand in Italy, including common brand, marketing and private-label activities.

National purchasing and marketing central coordinating negotiations and commercial activities on behalf of its member distribution groups.

Forum is a purchasing supercentral (Supercentrale d'acquisto) bringing together five major organizations operating in the Italian retail distribution sector: Crai Secom, C3, Despar Servizi, D.It and Consorzio Drug Italia.

Each member brings decades of experience in the Italian market. Through its member organizations, Forum represents a nationwide network of more than 5,000 stores across the different retail channels in which its territorial organizations operate.
Source: Forum.

Operational Headquarters:
Garibaldi Complex, Tower 2, 23rd floor
Piazza S. Freud, 1, 20124 Milan, Italy

National network of independent distribution companies providing commercial and marketing services to its member companies across multiple retail formats.

National commercial group bringing together independent distribution companies and coordinating retail brands, private labels, commercial services and central activities.

Building the trust of customers is something the company has been doing for over 40 years, since 1976 when the first Kanguro Supermarket opened in Sedico. Source: the website.

Italian retail company operating the ALDI discount supermarket network, with a grocery assortment that includes food, beverages, household products and private-label ranges.

Sole365 is part of Gruppo Megamark, a major distribution company in Southern Italy and member of Selex. This partnership allows Sole365 to offer a wide range of Selex private-label products. Source: the website.

Apulia Distribuzione was founded in 2001 by Antonio and Massimo Sgaramella, active in wholesale trade since the 1980s. Starting from Puglia, the company now covers Campania, Calabria, Basilicata and Sicily. Source: the website.

With more than 90 supermarkets, 22 cash & carry stores and more than 1,200 employees, ARCA has served consumer needs for 50 years. Source: the website.

Arimondo manages a network of 36 stores in Liguria, including 24 Pam-branded stores and 12 Eurospin-branded stores, supported by more than 500 collaborators. Source: the website.

The AZ Group is a major distribution chain in Calabria, operating in agreement with Coop Alleanza 3.0, one of the largest cooperative organizations in the Coop system.

Asta SRL has been a point of reference in the Lombardy area between Mantova and Brescia for over 40 years, operating 11 local-brand stores and 3 Ortofrutticola brand stores.

Basko S.p.A. manages a chain of Basko supermarkets and superstores belonging to the Sogegross Group, mainly active in Liguria.

Italian food retail operator under the Bennet brand, with supermarkets and hypermarkets offering grocery, fresh food, household and non-food products.

Gruppo Bosco is a supermarket chain present in Trieste and nearby areas, offering food and non-food products with a focus on quality and freshness.

Major Italian supermarket retailer operating the Esselunga network, with grocery stores, private-label products and online shopping services.

Italian discount retail group operating a nationwide network of stores with a strong focus on exclusive and private-label food and grocery products.

Italian retail group operating supermarkets, hypermarkets, proximity stores and discount formats through brands including Pam, Panorama and In’s.

GS S.p.A. is the retail company of NewPrinces Group, incorporating the Italian retail operations formerly owned by Carrefour Group.

The retail network continues to operate through different formats and banners during the transition from the Carrefour brand to the relaunched GS brand.

Retail formats: hypermarkets, supermarkets, neighbourhood stores, cash & carry and e-commerce.

Headquarters:
Via Bisceglie, 66
20152 Milan, Italy

Italian retail chain operating supermarkets, superstores and hypermarkets, with grocery, fresh food and private-label products.

Italian hypermarket retailer operating under the Iper La grande i brand, with a broad food assortment, own productions, private-label ranges and related retail services.

Italian company operating the Lidl discount supermarket network, with food, grocery, private-label and selected non-food assortments.

Italian discount supermarket operator with a nationwide retail network and a broad portfolio of private-label food and grocery products.

Founded in 1993 in Pastorano, in the province of Caserta, by a group of Campanian entrepreneurs, Multicedi is now a leading GDO operator in Central and Southern Italy, mainly in Campania.