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Migros plans to merge 10 regional cooperatives into one
Migros plans to combine its 10 regional cooperatives under one cooperative, alongside its supermarket company and national organization.
Chief executive Mario Irminger and board chair Ursula Nold are expected to present the reorganization plans next week.
The change would replace separate regional and national management structures with one central leadership and six supermarket regions.
Regional ties would remain, and about 2.3 million cooperative members would still elect delegates.
The reported savings estimate is 300 million to 400 million francs, while around 3,000 jobs could be affected, mainly in back-office roles.
Store workers are expected to be less affected, and Migros plans to add supermarkets and modernize existing stores.
Regional cooperative votes need a two-thirds majority for the restructuring to proceed.
Migros plans to combine its ten regional cooperatives, Supermarkt AG and Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund under one cooperative.
Chief executive Mario Irminger and board chair Ursula Nold are expected to present the reorganisation plans early next week.
The proposal would replace regional and national management structures with central leadership and six operating regions for supermarket business.
The reported savings potential is 300 million to 400 million francs, with around 3,000 jobs potentially affected, mainly in back-office work.
The plan would require approval by a two-thirds majority in votes at the regional cooperatives.
- Who
- Migros, led by chief executive Mario Irminger and board chair Ursula Nold.
- What
- It plans to merge its ten regional cooperatives, Supermarkt AG and Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund under one cooperative.
- When
- The plans are expected to be presented early next week. The articles were published on October 24 and 25, 2026.
- Where
- Switzerland; the proposal covers Migros’s regional cooperatives and supermarket business.
- Why
- To simplify the management structure and potentially save 300 million to 400 million francs.
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Migros considered sharply reducing the number of regional cooperatives, but the plans failed amid opposition from powerful cooperatives.
Tages-Anzeiger reported that Mario Irminger would present plans the following week to unify Migros’s structure.
Watson reported that the proposal would combine ten regional cooperatives, Supermarkt AG and Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund under one cooperative.
Irminger and Ursula Nold are expected to present the reorganisation plans.
- Regional cooperatives
- 10
- Proposed operating regions
- 6 for supermarket business
- Reported savings potential
- 300 million to 400 million francs
- Potential job reductions
- Around 3,000, according to the SonntagsZeitung report cited by Watson
- Cooperative members
- Around 2.3 million
- Approval threshold
- Two-thirds majority in votes at the regional cooperatives