Fair Trade - Coop's Social Mission

The following aspects will be addressed

• From Rochdale's pioneers to the first Italian Co-op (1854)
• Profit and non-profit
• How to innovate in security, environment, behaviour and actions (our experience up until 2000)
• Genetically Modified Organisms and SA 8000 (standard)
• Defence mechanisms against new food risks
• The new frontiers of CSR: the financial set-ups, the neighbourhood community, the local to global environment
• the beneficial biotechnologies

Riccardo Bagni is Vice-President and Managing Director of Coop Italia since January 2000 . He was previously Vice-President of Coop Italia Non-Food National Consortium , after having been Head of Acquisitions since 1987.

In June 2000, he was nominated Vice-President of Coind (a productions Co-op) and until June 2002 he was also President of Intergroup A.m.b.a. (Intergroup is the Head Office for european Co-op's acquisitions)

Bagni started his career with Unipol Insurance Company after obtaining his degree at the University of Pisa.