IGA Coca-Cola Institute

The IGA Coca-Cola Institute is a people development organization founded by IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) with the support of The Coca-Cola Company. For the last 20 years, the Institute has been dedicated to providing learning resources for food retailers worldwide. As an educational organization, it serves more than 6,000 businesses with blended training programs that include more than 120 industry-specific online courses divided into eight different libraries. The Leadership Development program (The Leadership Journey) focuses on the retail industry, providing tools to further develop their team. The Institute partners with many organizations to develop their own branded online corporate universities. The Institute has one of the world’s largest online food industry course catalogues; in 2014, it had more than 300,000 enrollments and offered learning opportunities in six languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Russian.