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Sustainability is emerging as a critically important issue globally, and FMI is developing the tools and resources you need most as you develop and implement your business sustainability strategies. On this page you'll find key resources to help you. If you are interested in learning more or being engaged with this effort, contact Jeanne von Zastrow, Senior Director, FMI, by email or call 435-259-3342.

What is Sustainability? "Business practices and strategies that promote the long term well-being of the environment, society and the bottom-line".
FMI's Sustainability Initiatives

What's HOT right now!: FMI's Sustainability Starter Kit - A "must have" strategic framework to help your company review and analyze what sustainability means as a business issue, and practical tips and advice on how to get started in developing your internal team and executing your own baseline sustainability strategy. The starter kit is full of ideas, case studies, guidelines and checklists. Available now in either PDF or printed copy.; FMI's Sustainability Starter Kit - Executive Summary; FMI's Electronic Sustainability Network - Exclusive to FMI members, this eshare allows you to pose questions, share ideas, and network with your peers in retail and wholesale food industry companies without leaving your office. Want to find a job description for a director of sustainability? Need to find ideas to be more efficient and save resources in your supply chain? Connect to the FMI Sustainability Network and save time and money by connecting to people and resources you most need.

FREE Retail Tools and Research: NEW Guide to Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships - Environmental Defense and GEMI - this guide was developed to demonstrate that collaboration and partnerships, if designed and executed effectively, can achieve remarkable business and environmental results. The report provides guidelines to organizing, designing, implementing and measuring the success of corporate-NGO partnerships along with numerous case examples of successful partnerships.; The Sustainability Opportunity for Retail and Wholesale Executives - A powerpoint presentation for use in company to present the business case -- the "what" and "why" for sustainability. It is a customizable tool designed by FMI to help to educate both senior management and "sustainability teams" responsible for developing and implementing strategy.; Sustainability and Recycling in the Food Industry - An FMI report that explores shopper practices and attitudes and how the industry is responding.; The Hartman Group Sustainable Consumer Research - A powerpoint presentation which outlines findings of the new research focusing on consumer attitudes and behaviors regarding sustainability.; Catalina Marketing "The Green Consumer - New custom research developed specifically for FMI by Catalina Marketing that focuses on the actual shopping behaviors of customers, the value of the "green market basket", and the loyalty of green consumers.
Catalina Research - Executive Summary
Full Powerpoint Research Report; Catalina Research - Executive Summary
Full Powerpoint Research Report; Carbon Resource List - FMI has complied this listing of resources to help you identify and navigate the numerous associations, networks, publications, websites, NGO's, and others that provide expertise on greenhouse gas, climate change and carbon issues.; Sustainability Resource List - FMI has compiled this listing of resources to help your company identify and connect to some of the key sustainability resources - including organizations, publications, conferences, and experts. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but simply something to get you started.; BBMG Meets the Conscious Consumer - New research report by socially responsible branding and marketing firm BBMG uncovers the attitudes and beliefs that are defining conscious consumers, shaping their priorities, and driving their purchase decisions. Read the white paper. (Full report available January 31); Research Report from IRI - reporting that sustainability is an increasingly important decision factor among American consumers regarding both the products they purchase as well as the stores at which they purchase them. The survey also delves into strategies CPG companies and retailers are adopting to meet new consumer demands.; Research Report from The Forum For the Future - Retail Futures offers a glimpse of what the retail experience of 2022 might involve. Through four radically different and detailed scenarios, Retail Futures 2022 explores many of the issues the retail sector will have to face in the years to come. Taken together, the four scenarios provide valuable tools to help the retail sector develop robust, future-proof strategies that will deliver more sustainable retail in a time of radical change.; Sustainable Seafood is an emerging issue, and FMI has a Sustainable Seafood Working Group is developing case studies, guidelines and educational tools. In this space, we are posting some case studies showcasing successful partnerships between retailers and NGO's, government agencies and accrediting bodies.
World Wildlife Fund and Wal-Mart

Ahold and New England Aquarium

Wegman's and Environmental Defense

Marks and Spencer and Greenpeace
Sustainable Seafood Resources - This is a resource listing to help you navigate all the different NGO's, associations, government agencies, accreditation programs, trade publications, conferences, stakeholder groups and experts to find the resources you need for sustainable seafood program development.; World Wildlife Fund and Wal-Mart; Ahold and New England Aquarium; Wegman's and Environmental Defense; Marks and Spencer and Greenpeace; 2008 Sustainability Summit Presentations - Click here to see the presentations from FMI's 2008 Sustainability Summit.