Mondragon Corporation
Mondragon, Spain
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Florian Guillaume: “Eighty thousand worker-owners have governed their own companies since 1956. I know no more serious alternative to shareholder capitalism.”
The world's largest industrial worker cooperative federation, founded in 1956 in Arrasate (Mondragon), Basque Country, by engineer José María Arizmendiarrieta and five young engineers. Today: 80,000+ worker-owners across 100+ cooperatives in manufacturing, distribution, finance and education. Revenue €14 billion (2023). Core businesses: MAIER Automotive, Fagor Automation, Orona elevators, Eroski supermarkets, Laboral Kutxa bank, Mondragon University. No external shareholders, workers own and gov
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