Granot Central Cooperative

Granot Central Cooperative Ltd.
Cooperative
Industry Agricultural
Founded 1940 (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

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