Coren is a cooperative and, as such, adopts the cooperative values of fairness, cooperation, social responsibility and commitment to others.
The main commitments of the Social Responsibility Policy of the Coren Group are:
Responsibility and honesty guide our relationship with everyone involved in the Coren Group's activity, including customers and suppliers.
As a cooperative, each of our members are given a significant role, under the premise that people prevail over capital. Promoting the concept of union and integration, in which members and employees are part of the “large Coren family”.
Ensuring the health and safety of all our workers, fostering a stable work environment and promoting equality and the reconciliation of work and personal life. Likewise facilitating continuous training programmes and maintain fluid communication with the entire personnel of the cooperative.
Committed to our customers and consumers in response to the trust placed in us. To that end, a permanent market orientation to meet customer demands, even anticipating those requirements are maintained. And we do so on the sacrosanct premise of offering food of the highest quality and food safety.
Since its origins over 60 years ago, the Coren Group has demonstrated its continuous commitment to the Galician countryside. Faithful to its principles of making agricultural and livestock activities compatible with maximum care for the environment, the cooperative chaired by Manuel Gómez-Franqueira is committed to a responsible working model based on sustainable and environmentally friendly practices.
Coren’s commitment to the countryside has materialized in initiatives such as the promotion of free-range and organic production, raised with free access to the fields. The cooperative is a pioneer in the production of Free-Range Chicken, which grows in the Galician fields, where it has a minimum surface area of one square meter per animal. Furthermore, all its egg production is free-range, meaning it comes from hens raised in the field, where they have a surface area of four square meters per bird.
Likewise, Coren has been contributing for years to the recovery of soutos (chestnut groves) with its Chestnut-Fed Pork range. With this innovative project, the cooperative revived the Galician tradition of feeding pigs with this fruit, thereby becoming a major purchaser of chestnuts for animal feed, in addition to promoting its own chestnut plantations on its farms.
These initiatives have made it possible to add value to agricultural land and prevent its abandonment, similarly contributing to settling the population in rural areas.
The cooperative promotes the utilization, reuse, and optimization of resources, with measures that allow the transformation of waste into clean and sustainable energy. An example of this is the Renewable Energy Plant for the treatment of livestock biomass, located on the premises of Coren’s Poultry Processing Center in Santa Cruz de Arrabaldo. Meanwhile, the farms feature modern waste management systems, such as biomass installations, slurry injectors , or the implementation of a portable ultracentrifugation system.
On the other hand, Coren’s production model also promotes an efficient use of natural resources (such as water) through the automation of equipment and management software on its farms, or the incorporation of the latest purification technologies to return the water used to the environment with optimal quality parameters. It also promotes recycling, the reduction of plastic use in its packaging, and the use of recycled materials.
The Coren Group began its transition toward clean energy sources years ago through a continuous modernization of its energy systems and by promoting renewable energies with the aim of developing a sustainable activity and reducing its carbon footprint.
Thus, the cooperative’s farms are equipped with photovoltaic and biomass energy installations, in addition to promoting geothermal and “puritermia” (slurry-thermal) energy. In its industries, it has also been working for years to replace fossil fuels with other renewable sources, as well as always promoting the most efficient systems in every area.
Coren’s concern for respectful production is shown in the R&D+i projects developed by the cooperative. An example of this is the launching of a Joint Research Unit (UMI) in which Coren, as a leading company in the sector, collaborates with the University of Vigo and the company Sertogal in order to address the main challenges in poultry farming, which include research to promote the circular economy, energy efficiency, and advanced digital technologies throughout the entire production chain.
Coren’s commitment to sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture and livestock farming is reflected in a constant investment by the cooperative to reinforce the sustainability of its activity, in line with the principles of the Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nations Climate Pact. This translates into compliance with environmental legislation in all phases of the productive activity, constantly promoting new lines of action related to environmental protection and the reduction of the carbon footprint.
