Granot Central Cooperative
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| Cooperative | |
| Industry | Agricultural |
| Founded | 1940 |
| Headquarters | Emek Hefer, Israel |
Area served | Israel |
Key people | Roberto Kuperman CEO |
| Revenue | ₪ 3,500 million (2011) |
| + ₪ 215 million (2011) | |
Number of employees | 12,000 |
| Parent | Owned by 42 Kibbutzim (With 25,000 residents in total) |
| Subsidiaries | Ambar Feed Mill, Granot Avocado, Rimon Ltd., Meyram Ltd., Amal Siudit |
| Website | granot.coop |
Granot Central Cooperative Ltd. is a purchasing organization of the kibbutz movement in Israel. The chairman is Amit Ben Itzhak, who has held the position since 2014.[1] Roberto Kuperman serves as Chief Executive Officer since 2005.
Granot oversees 20 factories and companies owned by 42 kibbutzim in Israel's coastal and central region. It operates in a wide range of economic sectors: finances, holdings, purchasing, agriculture (avocado, citrus fruits, cowsheds, poultry), industry (feed mills, food, slaughter houses, seed technologies development, refrigerated storage), infrastructures, energy, health care, information technologies, real estate, labor recruitment, vehicles fleet operation and leasing, on-job professional training and more.
With an annual revenue of about 3.5 billion NIS (New Israeli Shekel) Granot was recognized in 2007 as one of the largest cooperatives in the world (based on a research by the International Co-operative Alliance).[2]
History
Granot was established in 1940 in order to utilize economics of scale both in marketing agricultural products and reducing purchasing prices of goods for the member farms. Uniting the farms into one big cooperative, made it possible to use expansive technologies for processing agricultural products. Until today this advantage helps to reduce costs and finance operating capital necessary to sustain the agricultural farms.
Granot corporations
- Ambar Feed Mill - Operates the largest and most advanced feed mills in Israel, one in Gan Shmuel (Ambar North) and another in Dvira (Ambar South). Total annual production is nearly one million tons of compound feed.
- AMAL Siudit – One of the largest private nursing companies in Israel, taking care of more than 10,000 patients.
- Granot Avocado Cooperative - Cooperate 39 kibbutzim which produce one third of the total Israeli avocado yield. Granot Avocado Cooperative owns the largest Avocado packing house in Israel.
Holdings
- 50% of Mey-Ram Water Ltd., the leading private company in Israel, dealing with management of water and electricity resources in the Israeli rural sector.
- 75% of Rimon Ltd. deals with entrepreneurship and execution of projects in the field of recycled water.
- 7.5% of Tnuva Ltd., the leading food company in Israel. (Together with other Kibbutzim organizations holds 23.5% of the company)
- 8.35% of Alon the petrol company of Israel Ltd., one of the leading petrol companies in Israel with more than 20% market share of fuel sales in Israel[3] (Together with other Kibbutzim organizations holds 47% of the company).
References
- ↑ Alon USA Energy, Inc.
- ↑ International Co-operative Alliance Annual Report 2006 (PDF), retrieved 2012-05-14
- ↑ Alon official website