Report on Operations
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New members of Calgary Co-op in 2011
Locally owned and operated, Calgary Co-op is one of the largest retail co-operatives in North America and has been a member of the Calgary community for over 55 years. With over 440,000 members, 3,400 employees, assets of $441.4 million and annual sales of $1billion, Calgary Co-op, Calgary’s local fresh market, is committed to lead in food, petroleum, pharmacy, home health care, travel and wines & spirits. Investing over $3 million into the Calgary and area community, Calgary Co-op supports numerous local not-for-profit and charitable organizations. Calgary Co-op currently has 23 food centres and pharmacies, 27 gas bars, 22 car washes, 2 home health care centres, 7 travel offices and 21 wines & spirits locations, including 3 tasting centres, in Calgary and surrounding area. Awards and Accolades
Food
Calgary Co-op strives to provide the great quality products and exceptional service our communities value. In 2011, we were honoured to be awarded Best Grocery Store in the Calgary Herald Readers’ Choice Awards for the 11th consecutive year. We also won best car wash, deli, liquor store and travel agency and were secondary winners in the bakery, drug store and wine store categories. Our Home Health Care Centre was honoured with a 2011 Consumer Choice Award for Business Excellence and we also won multiple awards in the Readers’ Choice Awards by Airdrie City View and the Okotoks Western Wheel Readers’ Choice Awards.
In 2011, Calgary Co-op broke ground for our highly anticipated food centre in High River. Our 35,000 square foot store is expected to open in the summer of 2012.
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Calgary Herald Readers’ Choice Awards
Our fresh meat program continues to be very popular among our members and was rated the best in the Calgary market by members and consumers who shop at our competitors. We carry the best, freshest cuts of aged AA and AAA 100% Canadian beef and the freshest and largest varieties of Canadian pork and poultry items. Our meat experts help you chose the right cut, and will also tell you how to prepare it. In the produce section, we continued to focus on Canadian growers and producers. We sold tomatoes grown without pesticide from Paradise Hill Farm in Nanton, Alberta exclusively at our centres. We bought and sold almost the entire garlic crop grown by Oxley Garlic in Claresholm, Alberta and sold truckloads of sweet, tasty peaches and cream corn from Schrimer Family Farms in Manitoba. Calgary Co-op 2011 Annual Report
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