Nan Oldroyd -Senior Director, Recruitment & Diversity

Nan Oldroyd -Senior Director, Nan Oldroyd -Senior Director,

Recruitment & DiversityRecruitment & Diversity

October 16, 2009

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What’s Up With Diversity & What’s Up With Diversity & Inclusion?Inclusion?

Who We Are

ROI of Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity vs Inclusion

The Way We Do Things

Measuring Results

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Canada’s largest food distributor ($30.8 billion in sales – 2008)

Also a leading provider of:•Drugstore•General merchandise•Financial products & services

Over 1000 corporate and franchised stores from coast to coast

Four unique formats of stores to meet varying customer needs

• Great Food• Superstore• Hard Discount• Wholesale

Offer Canada’s strongest control brands

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Out of 33 million Canadians, 13 million shop with us every week

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ROI of Diversity & InclusionROI of Diversity & Inclusion

Zoomers make up 44% of Canada’s total population and control 77% of all of this country’s wealth

New Canadians make up almost 70% of Canada’s population growth and represent $76B+ in consumer spending power

Women control 80% of consumer dollars spent and make up 47%+ of Canada’s workforce

Sources listed at end

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ROI of Diversity & InclusionROI of Diversity & Inclusion People with disabilities have

$25B in consumer spending power and represent 1.2M working age Canadians

Aboriginal people are a $12B market in Canada and have a greater percentage of those under 25 than overall population

GLBT have a higher average household income and spend $100B annually

Men are 53% of workforce and approx more than 50% of this group are SWAMS Sources listed at end

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Diversity Vs InclusionDiversity Vs Inclusion

Source listed at end

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The Way We Do ThingsThe Way We Do Things

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Reflect Our Nation’s Reflect Our Nation’s DiversityDiversity

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Reflecting Our Nation’s DiversityReflecting Our Nation’s Diversity

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Measuring ResultsMeasuring Results

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Contact Contact

Nan.oldroyd@loblaw.caNan.oldroyd@loblaw.ca

Sources: http://www.thethomasyaccatogroup.ca/80_percent_minority.php; http://www.native-invest-trade.com/pdf/The_Benefit_Sponsorship.pdf;http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/20051012nixon.html; http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_ID=711;http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060307/d060307a.htm; http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02099e.html; http://142.236.54.113/eng/lp/lo/lswe/we/special_projects/RacismFreeInitiative/BusinessCase-e.shtml#bottom%20line; 2008 ZoomerShow Brochure ; Merriam Webster; Michael Bach