1 – Vangurad Co

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

MORE THAN 1,500 OUTLETS

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.

MUGI Digitalera

Vangurad 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.

Corporate Innovation Ecosystem

At Vangurad, we identify competitive advantages for our businesses, generating new business activities, knowledge and trained personnel, by means of our own corporate innovation model.

Vangurad 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.

Vangurad 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.