Casino Foundation

The Fondation groupe Casino (Casino Foundation) is the philanthropic corporate foundation of Groupe Casino, the French retail group founded in 1898 by Geoffroy Guichard and known for its Casino, Monoprix, Franprix, Leader Price and Cdiscount banners. The foundation is headquartered with the group in Saint-Étienne and operates in France, where it supports local projects that reinforce social ties and foster the development and empowerment of individuals, with a particular emphasis on women and men in the initiatives it backs. The current foundation is the product of a 2023 consolidation of two pioneering foundations created in 2009: the Fondation Monoprix, historically focused on urban precarity and, since 2019, on the isolation of homeless people, and the first Fondation groupe Casino, which for 14 years worked on the social and cultural inclusion of young people, notably through the "Artistes à l'école" theatre programme developed with the French education system and the Odéon theatre. Together these two entities financed close to 500 projects over 16 years, and their shared legacy forms the base of the renewed foundation. The foundation's mission is to strengthen the social fabric in French territories where the group's stores operate, on the conviction that individual fulfilment nourishes the collective. It publishes news, governance information and publications, and it is presented on the group's corporate website alongside the group's CSR commitments and investor information. As a corporate foundation it is not itself listed; it is tied to Groupe Casino, whose shares (Casino, Guichard Perrachon) are publicly traded.

The Fondation groupe Casino traces its roots to two foundations created in 2009. The Fondation Monoprix was established to combat urban precarity and to support a more solidarity-minded city, funding projects against exclusion; from 2019 it concentrated on combating the isolation of homeless people, deploying selection committees, innovative calls for projects in partnership with Ulule, and multi-year partnerships. The first Fondation groupe Casino worked for 14 years on the inclusion of young people through culture, with a particular focus on theatre practice; it developed the emblematic "Artistes à l'école" programme in partnership with the French national education system and the Odéon theatre, providing two-year artistic support to schools in rural and priority-education areas. Over 16 years, the two foundations financed close to 500 projects. Their shared heritage became the foundation of a new entity, the Fondation groupe Casino, which aims to continue and amplify the group's philanthropic commitment. The renewed foundation defines its mission around strengthening social ties in French territories — where the group's stores, in its words, offer more than commerce — and around the development and empowerment of the women and men involved in the initiatives it supports. It publishes its mission, history, news, governance and publications on the Groupe Casino corporate website. The foundation sits within Groupe Casino, the French retail group founded in 1898 by Geoffroy Guichard as the Société des Magasins du Casino et Établissements économiques d'alimentation. The group invented France's first private label, Casino, in 1901, opened its first self-service store in Saint-Étienne in 1948, and grew through banners including Monoprix, Franprix, Leader Price, SPAR, Vival, Cdiscount, Grupo Éxito and GPA. The foundation is therefore part of a long-standing corporate philanthropy tradition tied to the group's territorial presence.

• 2023

  Consolidation of the two 2009 foundations into the renewed Fondation groupe Casino.

• 2019

  The Fondation Monoprix refocuses on combating the isolation of homeless people.

• 2009

  Creation of the Fondation Monoprix, focused on urban precarity and exclusion.

• 2009

  Creation of the first Fondation groupe Casino, focused on youth inclusion through culture and theatre.

A corporate foundation embedded in French territories, funding local projects that strengthen social ties and individual empowerment.

Product categories. Philanthropic grants to local associations · Social-tie and inclusion programmes · Women's and men's empowerment initiatives

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