The document discusses factors contributing to rising global food prices and shortages, including droughts and floods damaging major wheat and soybean crops in Russia, Australia, and Argentina. It also notes colder weather negatively impacting agriculture in the northern hemisphere. The document then summarizes how the IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) supports independent grocery stores through services like brand awareness, collective buying power, partnerships with manufacturers, and education/training programs. It stresses the importance of cost control, logistics efficiency, and collaboration to help members sustain margins during challenging economic times.

1. Sustaining Margins the IGA
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2. Russian Heat Wave
The heat
wave and
drought that
hit Russia in
the summer
of 2010
destroyed
1/3 of the
wheat crop
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3. Flooding in Australia
Australia,
the world’s
fourth-
largest
wheat
exporter, is
expected to
lose up to
90 % of its
harvest due
to recent
flooding.
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4. Dry Weather in Argentina
Argentina's
soybean
crop, the
world's
third-
biggest, is
facing
drought
caused by La
Niña weather
conditions.
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5. Colder Weather in the Northern
Unusually
cold
winter
weather
in the
northern
hemisphe
re is
resulting
in
significan
t
agricultur
al loss.
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6. The Rest of the Story
Additional factors contributing to global food
shortages and higher food prices:
fuel prices
growing demand from China
increasing corn use for ethanol fuel
a weak U.S. dollar
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7. 2008 Global Food Crisis
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8. The Current Global Food Crisis
Measure of the monthly Changes in monthly
change in international prices international prices of major
of a basket of food food commodities.
commodities.
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9. The Current Global Food Crisis
"We are entering a dangerous
territory. It will be foolish to
assume this is the peak. There is
still room for prices to go up
much higher…”
Abdolreza
Abbassian
Economist
Food and Agriculture
Organization
of the United Nations
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17. What is IGA?
IGA is more than a simple
banner – it’s more than
private label merchandise
on the shelf
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18. Why They Are IGA …..
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19. What is IGA?
Wholesalers, premier global
manufacturers and retailers
combine to create the IGA
Alliance….
IGA is the biggest affiliation
of independent grocers in
the United States and around
the world!
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20. What is IGA?
Global Retail Locations
 IGA is the world’s largest
voluntary supermarket
network with aggregated
worldwide retail sales of
more than $29 billion per
year
 The Alliance includes over
5,000 Hometown Proud
Supermarkets worldwide,
supported by 36 distribution
companies and more than 55
major manufacturers,
vendors and world-wide
suppliers
 IGA has operations in more
than 36 countries,
commonwealths and
territories. 20
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21. IGA Around The World: 5,000 Stores and Growing
IGA has operations in more than 36 countries, commonwealths and territories
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22. Global Vision, Local Focus
BRAZIL
AUSTRALIA
MOSCOW
CHINA
USA
SINGAPORE
GUAM
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23. How Can IGA Help
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24. How Can IGA Help
 Brand Awareness
 Buying Power
 Partnerships with manufacturers
 Education
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26. Brand Awareness: The IGA Promise
A Brand Promise that
applies in every culture:
“The IGA Promise of personalized customer service
delivered by trusted members of the community…”
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27. Brand Awareness: Community
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28. Buying Power
 When groups of stores trading in a common
region combine – the power of the individual IGA
stores is naturally magnified
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29. Buying Power
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30. Relationships with
The world’s premier consumer product manufacturers are
helping to address the issues and opportunities of
independent grocers.
Through their Red Oval membership, they are able to offer
incremental support and programming that is exclusive to
IGA independents.
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31. Red Oval Patners
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32. Education: IGA Coca-Cola Institute
WWW.IGAINSTITUTE.COM
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33. Education: IGA Coca-Cola Institute Training
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34. Certifications and Enrollments
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35. What Our Students Say
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36. Three Thoughts for Sustaining
 Provide retail stores with productivity ideas that
will help keep costs low without sacrificing
customer service or product quality
 Think of new ways to control costs and logistics
 Consider collaborative sourcing…even with
competitors
At the end of the day the winner will be the one
who serves the customer best…
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37. Sustaining Margins the IGA
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