Sollio Cooperative Group () is a cooperative of agricultural producers in Quebec, Canada. It was previously known as the La Coop fédérée and Coopérative fédérée de Québec, which was founded in 1922.

Structure

Sollio is composed of a hundred affiliated cooperatives, owned by 108,000 members. The Sollio network employs nearly 16,000 people and had a turnover of 9.1 billion

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s in 2014. Some brands or companies that it has owned or still owns are: *

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is Canada's largest exporter of pork and poultry products. * The "Lactel Group" was the largest private exporter of dairy products in Canada and was sold to "Agropur" in 2000. In 1992, Lactel was involved in a dispute between the Canadian and American governments over the

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of 1989 and the Puerto Rican Health and Safety standard. After several years of dispute, Lactel was finally permitted to export to Puerto Rico, but as of 1999, held a very small share in the milk market. * '' Sonic '' is the first Quebec distributor to offer a gasoline fuel supplemented with

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. * '' Unimat '' and'' BMR '', two Quebec firms in the hardware industry.

References

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Links

Site of Sollio Cooperative Group
Agricultural marketing cooperatives Agricultural cooperatives in Canada Canadian companies established in 1922