To offer employees an alternative that allows them to eat well, while also taking a pleasant break and support the local economy. This is how our company was born, a French cooperative with a specific economic model to offer meal vouchers to businesses and communities.
Our story begins on 27 May 1964, in France, when Georges Rino creates the Co-operative Society of Consumers “Chèque Coopératif pour la Restoration (CCR)”.
«I didn't set up a co-operative by chance. It was completely impossible for me to participate in the creation of a capitalist-style company… Above all, I wanted to create a society where everyone felt at home and wasn't exploited for my sole benefit. Georges Rino (President and Chief Executive Officer from 1964 to 1990)
The cooperative takes its name from its star product, Meal voucher, reinforces its economic and social model, while developing its restaurant voucher activity.
In 1988, Sociedad Española de Cheque Gourmet S.A. was founded in our country, a small company that issues meal vouchers.
The French group Meal voucher it is in full expansion and acquires ccheque gourmet® in Spain, which helped our company to grow significantly, later going on to offer other types of service vouchers such as the Cheque Guardería Educainfantil.
The company project Sociedad Española de Cheque Gourmet, is to be renamed Chèque Déjeuner España, S.A. Today, it is fully integrated into the group's strategy, sharing its philosophy regarding human resources management.
On 13 January 2015, the Chèque Déjeuner Group evolved and became the Up Group. After almost 40 years, the company is changing its name, image, and way of communicating.
As part of its diversification strategy focused on offering the best engagement solutions, the Up Group is acquiring the companies Hey Please and Grass Roots Spain.
The Grupo Up updates and unifies its brand image and accelerates the digitalisation of all its solutions to better respond to society's new needs.
We are convinced that an exciting future lies ahead of us, full of great challenges, in which we will continue working to build a fairer and more sustainable society. That is the goal that inspires us every day.
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