CoopeCoronado R.L. is a vigorous company devoted to the distribution of dairy products and drinks, and the only one of its kind that has obtained the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications in the country.  The drive and the desire for doing things right, as the slogan states, is the heritage of a history that has been marked by public recognition, which has been awarded with the prestigious retail service medal for the past six years, granted by the Chamber of that sector and, has recently been selected as an enterprise of excellence by the National Program of Culture, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Public Education.

CoopeCoronado is a company that emerged in the 70’s in the Costa Rican market, as a response to the needs of independent milk producers that had problems marketing their product efficiently.

Although it was legally constituted on August 26th, 1971, it was not until February 14th, 1974 that the cooperative started to operate in an organized way with the immediate assistance of engineers, specialists in the industrialization of milk and its by-products; as well as the assistance of workers and producers from San Isidro de Coronado, in San Jose, Costa Rica.  Back then, the company was only producing milk and by-products such as butter, cheese and flavored milk, and it had a small fleet of trucks that collected and distributed the milk.

As time went by, and with the stimuli in the increase of production, new by-products were developed, such as sour cream, cream cheese, ice cream, ices in all sizes and flavors, orange juice and yogurt, among others.

Those first traces, shy and even doubtful, undertaken by a group of farmers with the vision of forming a cooperative, are now a solid reality; which progresses every day, and has started to show the effects of modernity with a modern market that has taken the brand to an image that broke the rural barrier to approach urban customers with a great acceptance.

Currently, CoopeCoronado R.L. is a successful cooperative that boasts 65 trucks of its own, which deliver a wide range of products in different presentations and categories throughout the national territory.  However, what has been more important from all this growth is the entrepreneurial philosophy that has prioritized human beings from start to finish, in such a way that the collaborators of the enterprise can perform within a harmonious working environment and produce a noble product, full of nutritional qualities for customers, because based on transparency and teamwork, in CoopeCoronado we honor the slogan:  “Where we do things right”.

Brief History

• CoopeCoronado was legally constituted in 1971, but started operations on February 14th, 1974 by first selling milk and butter, and with time, the production grew and became strongly consolidated.

• In February 1999, a Strategic Alliance was made with the Milk Producers Cooperative (Cooperativa de Productores de Leche R.L.), with the idea of turning Coronado into a commercializing enterprise.

• With this Alliance, Coronado has been strengthened, and the products it elaborates have a better quality and more advanced technology.