WHAT WE DO
BUSINESS
We operate all over the world through business delegations and production plants in a variety of different fields such as Industry, Finance, Retail and Knowledge.
Our roadmap for 2021/2024. Improve in competitiveness, cooperation and flexibility in our response to major upheavals, through strategic pillars such as digital transformation, sustainability and the attraction of talent.
BUSINESS
We operate all over the world through business delegations and production plants in a variety of different fields such as Industry, Finance, Retail and Knowledge.
OUR STRUCTURE
MONDRAGON
Finance
LABORAL Kutxa and LagunAro, EPSV focus on three specific activities: banking, insurance (through the Seguros Lagun Aro brand) and social welfare.
LABORAL Kutxa, a cooperative banking project, has 1.2 million customers. It is now one of Spain’s most solvent financial institutions. The Lagun Aro brand provides a comprehensive range of insurance services for private customers, the self-employed and businesses. LagunAro, EPSV also manages its own social welfare system for all cooperative members.
Industry
GLOBAL PRESENCE, INNOVATIVE APPROACH
The industrial area covers a broad range of activities, including goods and services in the sectors of consumer goods, capital goods, industrial components, construction and services to business.
Retail
MORE THAN 1,500 OUTLETS
The EROSKI GROUP is one Spain’s leading retail chains, with a network of more than 1,600 shops. It operates mainly in the food sector, although it also has dedicated stores in such sectors as sports shops, petrol stations and opticians. The company’s parent company is the Eroski cooperative, owned by both its workforce and customers, who make up its governing bodies.
ERKOP. In Retail, the agri-food group ERKOP is also part of the MONDRAGON Corporation, operating in catering, cleaning, livestock farming and agriculture.
Knowledge
OUR OWN UNIVERSITY AND 14 R&D CENTRES
Training and education have traditionally been a mainstay of the cooperative experience. In 1997, the Corporation founded Mondragon Unibertsitatea. The university now has more than 5,000 students, with campuses in Mondragón, Oñati, Eskoriatza, Markina, Goierri, Irun, Bilbao, Aretxabaleta and San Sebastián. The degrees at Mondragon Unibertsitatea include undergraduate, master’s and PhD courses in the fields of engineering, education, communications, business management, entrepreneurship and food science. MONDRAGON has also developed an integrated system of Innovation, Promotion and Knowledge (M4FUTURE), which involves the cooperatives themselves, research centres, the university, and the Corporate Promotion Centre.
University
Higher Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Humanities and Education Science, and the Faculty of Food Science
Technology Centres
Business R&D units
Education and Professional Training centres
Innovation Agents
CORPORATE PROJECTS
OTALORA
Otalora, MONDRAGON’s Centre for Management and Cooperative Development, opened in 1984 as IKASBIDE, instructing the young postgraduates that the cooperatives in the Mondragon Cooperative Group had invited to combine their postgraduate studies at this centre with placements at their companies.
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MUGI
Digitalera
MONDRAGON Learning Space for Digital Transformation. The present is already digital and the future will be even more so. The world is speeding up and we require new skills that change ever faster in all areas of life. We want to accompany you, be close and make resources available to you to help you build your professional future.
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Corporate
Innovation Ecosystem
At MONDRAGON, we identify competitive advantages for our businesses, generating new business activities, knowledge and trained personnel, by means of our own corporate innovation model.
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MONDRAGON People
We are a group with a global outreach, one that recognises and promotes talent, regardless of its origin. We are over a hundred cooperatives operating in different sectors. Where would you like to work? Whatever you’re looking for, you’ll find it here. A diversity of profiles that makes us unique.
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MONDRAGON
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
We are the corporate platform whose mission is the development of entrepreneurship, diversification, and the generation of New Business Activities. Our vision leads us to position ourselves in business models with future that favour the competitiveness of our companies, solidary businesses which generate social impact within a framework of great human dimension. It comprises a team of Promoters that manage the start-up of new projects based on the intra-entrepreneurial and inter-cooperation capacities identified, as well as generating alliances and shareholding with other business opportunities identified abroad.
Find out more about the projectOTALORA
Otalora, MONDRAGON’s Centre for Management and Cooperative Development, opened in 1984 as IKASBIDE, instructing the young postgraduates that the cooperatives in the Mondragon Cooperative Group had invited to combine their postgraduate studies at this centre with placements at their companies.
Find out more about the project
MUGI
Digitalera
MONDRAGON Learning Space for Digital Transformation. The present is already digital and the future will be even more so. The world is speeding up and we require new skills that change ever faster in all areas of life. We want to accompany you, be close and make resources available to you to help you build your professional future.
Find out more about the project
Corporate
Innovation Ecosystem
At MONDRAGON, we identify competitive advantages for our businesses, generating new business activities, knowledge and trained personnel, by means of our own corporate innovation model.
Find out more about the project
MONDRAGON People
We are a group with a global outreach, one that recognises and promotes talent, regardless of its origin. We are over a hundred cooperatives operating in different sectors. Where would you like to work? Whatever you’re looking for, you’ll find it here. A diversity of profiles that makes us unique.
Find out more about the project
MONDRAGON
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
We are the corporate platform whose mission is the development of entrepreneurship, diversification, and the generation of New Business Activities. Our vision leads us to position ourselves in business models with future that favour the competitiveness of our companies, solidary businesses which generate social impact within a framework of great human dimension. It comprises a team of Promoters that manage the start-up of new projects based on the intra-entrepreneurial and inter-cooperation capacities identified, as well as generating alliances and shareholding with other business opportunities identified abroad.
Find out more about the projectSOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
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how MONDRAGON contributes in each case.
NO POVERTY
Through social projects in both developed and developing countries. The MUNDUKIDE Foundation improves the lives of 80,000 people in Africa and Latin America.
ZERO HUNGER
Humanitarian support for vulnerable groups. Almost 10,000 people have had their annual dietary needs catered for thanks to the donations made by the retailer Eroski and its customers.
HEALTH
LagunAro provides healthcare and social welfare for 28,204 active members, 73,172 healthcare beneficiaries, and 14,544 senior citizens.
EDUCATION
A benchmark in advanced educational models and pioneers in dual training programmes, MONDRAGON educates and instructs over 11,000 students and 6,000 professionals.
EQUALITY
Almost half of the people working for MONDRAGON are women (49%), with a presence of 27.47% on Management Committee and 28.9% on Boards of Directors.
CLEAN WATER
MONDRAGON delivers international turnkey projects in electrical engineering and automation for wastewater treatment plants.
ENERGY
We develop projects for generating renewable energy, such as Ekian, the largest solar energy farm in Euskadi-The Basque Country.
WORK
This is one of the cooperative model’s key components. MONDRAGON is the largest employer in the Basque Country and one of the top ten nationwide.
INNOVATION
With an innovative business ecosystem, R&D centres and a university employing over 2,000 people.
REDUCED INEQUALITIES
The MONDRAGON business model generates equity, quality of life and equal opportunities.
CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
MONDRAGON is taking part in the European project “Smart Cities & Communities”; and it encourages the use of Euskera among its cooperatives (currently 59 have Euskera Plans).
CONSUMPTION
Health and sustainability are the pillars of our consumer model, which is firmly committed to local products. Over 50% of our suppliers are small, local producers.
CLIMATE
MONDRAGON aspires to a carbon-free economy. 90% of its sales have quality management certificates and 65% have certified environmental management systems.
LIFE BELOW WATER
MONDRAGON supports the Sustainable Fisheries project sponsored by the WWF.
LIFE ON LAND
MONDRAGON is involved in projects for recovering local wildlife, forestry management, and the sustainable farming of local produce.
GOVERNANCE
The cooperative model fosters transparency and grassroots involvement in ownership, management and results.
PARTNERSHIPS
MONDRAGON is the outcome of intercooperation. It has entered into agreements with numerous international networks and alliances for increasing its scope for social transformation.
By its very nature, our business model is responsible, democratic and sustainable.
Our aim is to promote cooperatives as the world’s foremost socio-business projects. We believe in the cooperative legacy, and besides cooperatives that are more robust and successful, we want coming generations to inherit a model of development that is better for people and the planet.
We are the world’s largest Cooperative Ecosystem in Social Innovation.
We work shoulder-to-shoulder with business and social agents and the public administrations to create an environment of innovation, with our sights set firmly on social transformation. We look for sustainable solutions that will strike a balance between economic growth, environmental protection and social wellbeing.
Changing the world. MONDRAGON has recently been included in Fortune magazine’s “Change the World – 2020” list, being ranked in eleventh position worldwide. This is a honour that acknowledges the efforts companies make in their contribution to the major challenges society faces today.
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
By its very nature, our business model is responsible, democratic and sustainable.
We are the world’s largest Cooperative
Ecosystem in Social Innovation.
We work shoulder-to-shoulder with business and social agents and the public administrations to create an environment of innovation, with our sights set firmly on social transformation. We look for sustainable solutions that will strike a balance between economic growth, environmental protection and social wellbeing.
Changing the world. MONDRAGON has recently been included in Fortune magazine’s “Change the World – 2020” list, being ranked in eleventh position worldwide. This is a honour that acknowledges the efforts companies make in their contribution to the major challenges society faces today.
Click on the SDG icon
to discover how MONDRAGON contributes in each case.
NO POVERTY
Through social projects in both developed and developing countries. The MUNDUKIDE Foundation improves the lives of 80,000 people in Africa and Latin America.
ZERO HUNGER
Humanitarian support for vulnerable groups. Almost 10,000 people have had their annual dietary needs catered for thanks to the donations made by the retailer Eroski and its customers.
HEALTH
LagunAro provides healthcare and social welfare for 28,204 active members, 73,172 healthcare beneficiaries, and 14,544 senior citizens.
EDUCATION
A benchmark in advanced educational models and pioneers in dual training programmes, MONDRAGON educates and instructs over 11,000 students and 6,000 professionals.
EQUALITY
Almost half of the people working for MONDRAGON are women (49%), with a presence of 27.47% on Management Committee and 28.9% on Boards of Directors.
CLEAN WATER
MONDRAGON delivers international turnkey projects in electrical engineering and automation for wastewater treatment plants.
ENERGY
We develop projects for generating renewable energy, such as Ekian, the largest solar energy farm in Euskadi-The Basque Country.
WORK
This is one of the cooperative model’s key components. MONDRAGON is the largest employer in the Basque Country and one of the top ten nationwide.
INNOVATION
With an innovative business ecosystem, R&D centres and a university employing over 2,000 people.
REDUCED INEQUALITIES
The MONDRAGON business model generates equity, quality of life and equal opportunities.
CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
MONDRAGON is taking part in the European project “Smart Cities & Communities”; and it encourages the use of Euskera among its cooperatives (currently 59 have Euskera Plans).
CONSUMPTION
Health and sustainability are the pillars of our consumer model, which is firmly committed to local products. Over 50% of our suppliers are small, local producers.
CLIMATE
MONDRAGON aspires to a carbon-free economy. 90% of its sales have quality management certificates and 65% have certified environmental management systems.
LIFE BELOW WATER
MONDRAGON supports the Sustainable Fisheries project sponsored by the WWF.
LIFE ON LAND
MONDRAGON is involved in projects for recovering local wildlife, forestry management, and the sustainable farming of local produce.
GOVERNANCE
The cooperative model fosters transparency and grassroots involvement in ownership, management and results.
PARTNERSHIPS
MONDRAGON is the outcome of intercooperation. It has entered into agreements with numerous international networks and alliances for increasing its scope for social transformation.
FUNDACIÓN MUNDUKIDE HAS SPENT THE LAST 21 YEARS HELPING TO LAUNCH COOPERATIVE PROJECTS ALL OVER THE WORLD.
CERTIFICATIONS
QUALITY
Global impact on companies in INDUSTRY.
certifications
(aerospace)
certifications
(automotive industry)
certifications
ENVIRONMENT
certifications
certifications
certifications
HEALTH AND SAFETY
certificates
certifications
BASQUE LANGUAGE
certifications
FOUNDATIONS
EROSKI
Its remit is the promotion and protection of consumers and, in particular, education and information on consumer affairs. Its main agent is Eroski Consumer, one of the most popular Spanish media on the Internet.
MUNDUKIDE FOUNDATION
Mundukide is a cooperation project involving communities in developing countries, sharing experiences, resources and cooperative know-how in order to boost their self-management and integral development.
MONDRAGON FOUNDATION
It drives the social economy within the ambit of the MONDRAGON cooperatives, promoting education and socio-cooperative and professional training, as well as the research and development mandated to raise their level of technology.
LAGUN ARO INSURANCES – A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
It performs important work in society and in its three operating areas: The promotion of popular sport, cultural events, and the launch of projects for improving the quality of life of the victims of road accidents.
AZARO FOUNDATION
Azaro Fundazioa participates in the creation of new innovative businesses in the Basque district of Lea-Artibai. In addition, it disseminates a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, while promoting cooperative values.
AUSOLAN FOUNDATION
It was born with the mission of guaranteeing the access of vulnerable groups to healthy, sufficient and sustainable food. Likewise, it also seeks to promote education in healthy living habits and environments in families, as well as to promote technical and professional training for women to gain access to decent employment.
KNOWING +
GIZABIDEA FOUNDATION
GIZABIDEA seeks to promote culture and education and create its own educational infrastructure and system, with the aim of transforming people and society in general. GIZABIDEA is the outcome of the joint efforts of the cooperatives, and in particular FAGOR GROUP, which has assigned part of its earnings to research and education.
ULMA FOUNDATION
Its mission is to promote the Social Economy and foster activities of a cultural, social, charitable or healthcare nature. It is also committed to education and socio-cooperative and professional training, and the dissemination of the precepts of cooperativism in its area of influence.
