KF - The Swedish Cooperative Union
About KF
KF - The Swedish Cooperative Union, is a federation of 47 consumer cooperative societies in Sweden, with over 3 million individual members.
KF is the parent company of KF Group where Coop's grocery retail trade constitutes its core business. Coop operates grocery retail shops in chains like Coop Forum, Coop Extra, Coop Konsum and Coop Nära. Together with the retail consumer cooperative societies, Coop accounts for 21.5 percent of the entire Swedish grocery retail sector.
The KF Group is also home to a number of companies within different business sectors as well as companies offering internal services. The subsidiaries include, amongst others, KF Fastigheter (real estate business), Akademibokhandeln with its online bookstore Bokus, Norstedts publishing group, PAN Vision Group (distribution of films and digital games), Vi Magazine, KF Invest and Vår Gård Saltsjöbaden (conference facility).
KF IN BRIEF 2009
About Coop
Address:
Kooperativa Förbundet (KF)
Box 15200
S-10465 Stockholm, Sweden
Visitors: Stadsgården 10
Phone + 46 8 743 25 00
e-mail: info@kf.se
No Coop decision regarding Israeli products
On Saturday April 10, The Consumer Cooperative Society Väst's annual meeting voted yes to three motions regarding boycott of Israeli products in Coop’s stores. Below please find KF’s (The Swedish Cooperative Union) and Coop’s position on trade boycotts.
What is KF’s and Coop’s position on trade boycotts?
KF’s and Coop’s standard when choosing suppliers is not to take any consideration to nationality. According to KF’s policy a trade boycott against individual countries shall be determined by the Swedish government or The European Union and/or The United Nations. By having country-of-origin labeling of goods we give our members and costumers to take position if they want to purchase products from certain countries.
What will happen with The Consumer Cooperative Society Väst’s motions?
The Consumer Cooperative Society Väst is one of 47 consumer cooperative societies included in KF, The Swedish Cooperative Union. The decision at Väst’s annual meeting on Saturday implies that they will pass the question about a possible boycott of Israeli goods onward to KF.
For more information:
KF och Coop press office, phone +46 8 743 23 33