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Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) is an Australian chain of supermarkets. IGA is owned by
There are a wide variety of stores under the brand, from small corner and convenience stores, liquor stores, and large full service grocery stores. The stores operate under the same IGA brands but are individually owned and operated. For a brief period of time IGA owned stores in 
In 2018, IGA began a rebrand that repositioned the chain as a "truly niquelylocalised" option, scrapping the white colour and corrugated metal for wood veneer and chalkboard and a series of chalk emblems for stores. A while ago, the chain previously similarly used the slogan "How the locals like it" referencing
Metcash
Metcash Trading () is an Australian conglomerate company headquartered in Wooloomooloo, NSW.
Metcash is a distributing and marketing support in supermarket groceries, perishables, fresh produce, alcoholic beverages, hardware, and other consume ...
, but individual IGA stores are owned independently. Its main competitors are Woolworths, Coles, Spar
SPAR, originally DESPAR, styled as DE SPAR, is a Dutch multinational that provides branding, supplies and support services for independently owned and operated food retail stores. It was founded in the Netherlands in 1932, by Adriaan van Well, ...
and Aldi
Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when t ...
. It is the fourth largest chain, since Aldi overtook Metcash in supermarket revenues.
Markets
The American-owned Independent Grocers Alliance has over 5,000 stores in over 30 countries. The IGA brand was introduced to Australia by Davids Holdings in 1988 when 10 stores became members of IGA. As of January 2020, there are over 1,400 IGA stores in Australia, a number which fluctuates as independently owned stores close, open, or are sold and rebranded out of the group. Many of the stores were acquired from other brands such as Woolworths or Coles when they shut down stores following their own acquisitions of smaller brands during the major industry period of rationalisation in the 2000s.
There are a wide variety of stores under the brand, from small corner and convenience stores, liquor stores, and large full service grocery stores. The stores operate under the same IGA brands but are individually owned and operated. For a brief period of time IGA owned stores in New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
following corporate mergers. In 2019, it was reported that IGA had 7% of the grocery market in Australia.In 2018, IGA began a rebrand that repositioned the chain as a "truly niquelylocalised" option, scrapping the white colour and corrugated metal for wood veneer and chalkboard and a series of chalk emblems for stores. A while ago, the chain previously similarly used the slogan "How the locals like it" referencing Ben Lee
Benjamin Michael Lee (born 11 September 1978) is an Australian musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but he focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appe ...
, followed by "Where the ''locals'' matter".
Brands
IGA's mainstore brand
A private label, also called a private brand or private-label brand, is a brand owned by a company, offered by that company alongside and competing with brands from other businesses. A private-label brand is almost always offered exclusively by th ...
is ''Black and Gold'', a generic food brand which also sells in FoodWorks
FoodWorks is an Australian supermarket chain run by independent retail group Australian United Retailers Limited (AURL). The AURL was created in November 2004 from the merger of the FoodWorks Supermarket Group Ltd (FSG) and Australian United ...
across the country. Items are easily distinguished because of the gold/yellow packaging with the black writing on the item. There is also a more upscale IGA ''Signature'' range that is identified by a metallic signature brand. "No Frills" was previously the Franklins home brand and is available mostly in Western Australian stores.
See also
*List of supermarket chains in Oceania
This is a list of supermarket chains in Oceania.
Australia
Coles Group
*Coles Supermarkets
* Coles Express
*Coles Local
Metcash Trading
*IGA
* Supa IGA
*IGA X-Press/Local Grocer IGA
*Foodland IGA
*Supa Valu IGA
*Eziway Food Stores (West ...
References
External links
* {{Supermarkets Companies of Australia Supermarkets of Australia Retail companies established in 1988 Australian companies established in 1988 Australian grocers