IGA NAMES 2005 INTERNATIONAL RETAILERS OF THE YEAR

Kevin Brouillard Receives Prestigious Global Award

CHICAGO, IL - IGA today announced Kevin Brouillard, owner of Tri Town IGA Foods in Flanders, Conn., has been named one of six 2005 IGA International Retailers of the Year. Brouillard was chosen for the annual award from the 4,400 IGA Retailers worldwide. A committee of IGA executives and food industry experts based their decisions on performance of the retailers in areas ranging from leadership and innovation to hometown involvement and employee development. Brouillard was honored at IGA's 2005 International Retailers of the Year Awards Dinner Ceremony held at the IGA Global Summit on Tuesday, March 1, at Marriott’s Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Palm Springs, Calif.

"IGA International Retailer of the Year, Kevin Brouillard, represents the very best the retail world has to offer," said Dr. Thomas Haggai, chairman and CEO of IGA. “We are thankful to our extended family at Bozzuto’s for giving Brouillard his start and helping him foster an undeniable love for the industry. Today he and his partners own two IGA stores in Connecticut, both of which occupy a local niche that makes them indispensable to the community. We’re proud to have Brouillard as a member of the IGA Family.”

“I feel very fortunate that over the years I have been able to gain tremendous insight and experience from my peers and the broker/vendor community,” Brouillard said. “It is the unyielding support of my partners Jack Fitzpatrick and Rick Sharr, along with the Bozzuto’s staff, the collection of talent at IGA corporate, and the Red Oval members that made it possible for me to win this award.”

IGA, the only global supermarketer based in the United States, is the world’s largest voluntary supermarket network with aggregate worldwide retail sales of more than $21 billion per year. The Alliance includes more than 4,000 Hometown Proud Supermarkets worldwide, supported by 37 distribution companies and more the 55 major manufacturers, vendors and suppliers encompassing everything from grocery to equipment items. IGA ranks in the top 10 in world food supermarketing. IGA has operations in 48 of the United States and more than 40 countries, commonwealths and territories on all six inhabited continents.