Mondragon Corporation
Mondragon, Spain
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Florian Guillaume: “Eighty thousand worker-owners governing their own companies since 1956 is the most serious counter-model to shareholder capitalism I know.”
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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