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Any use of this material without specific permission of McKinsey & Company is strictly prohibitedCopyright © 2012. All rights reserved
October 2012
How cooperatives grow
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Executive summary – cooperative growth strategies
▪ From 2005 to 2010, coops grew at nearly the same rate as their publicly held counterparts, but the way coops have grown is different
▪ Coops outperformed publicly listed companies on market share gains, underperformed on portfolio momentum (growth from operating in growing segments), and were roughly on par in M&A (with a focus on mergers rather than acquisitions)
▪ We see two primary opportunities for cooperatives
– Play to their natural strengths and further pursue market-share gains by offering value-added products and services that only a coop can deliver. Coops that have outperformed on market share
gains and have continued to win the loyalty of members have • Put members first. Coops place their members’ interests and needs ahead of short-term financial
gains to win their members’ loyalty and grow the customer base
• Used the proximity advantage. Coops can leverage their proximity with members – both physical proximity and close relationships – to tailor products, services, and operations to meet customer
needs• Broken down organizational silos. Coops can offer multiple products and services, allowing them to
serve more of their members’ needs and increase their members’ benefits and, therefore, grow more quickly. Various units in the organization need to work together to enable these opportunities
– Expand in attractive adjacent markets. Coops have a natural tendency to focus primarily on the
current interests of their existing members and, to a lesser extent, on expanding in attractive adjacent opportunities. Coops that are good at this do so by evaluating the broader needs of their members in attractive adjacent markets and by bringing targeted modifications to their business models to capitalize on these opportunities. They consistently renew their portfolio by• Understanding unmet needs. Coops must systematically research the unmet needs of their present
customer base to be able to effectively explore adjacent markets• Leveraging distinctive capabilities. When exploring adjacent markets, coops can leverage their
knowledge, experience, and/or unique expertise to address customer needs in these adjacent markets or new geographies
• Using formal mechanisms to finance new opportunities. Coops need to develop mechanisms to
ensure investment allocations are available to realize new opportunities
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Context and methodology
Cooperative growth strategies
Content
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We set out to answer three main questions
How important is growth?
How do coops grow?
How significant is growth?
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64 cooperatives in the 4 major sectors were included in our research
Insurance
Integrated financials
Retail
Food and Agriculture
▪ CoBank1
▪ Desjardins ▪ Vancity
▪ Agropur▪ American Crystal Sugar
Company1
▪ Farmers Cooperative Co.▪ La Coop fédérée
▪ Nationwide Mutual ▪ SSQ Financial Group1
▪ State Farm Mutual1
▪ The Co-operators ▪ Thrivent Lutherian
▪ Ace Hardware ▪ Mountain Equipment Co-op ▪ True Value Corporation1
▪ Unified Grocers1
▪ United Farmers of Alberta1
▪ Arabia1
▪ Co-operative Insurance Company of Kenya
▪ LARS▪ NTUC Income ▪ Zensorai
▪ Capricorn ▪ FairPrice1 ▪ CBH Group▪ Indian Farmers Fertiliser
Cooperative (IFFCO)
▪ Saraswat Bank1
▪ The Norinchukin Bank1
▪ Achmea ▪ Debeka1
▪ Folksam ▪ GEMA ▪ Groupama1
▪ MACIF ▪ R+V Versi-
cherung1
▪ Unipol
▪ Conad1
▪ Coop Estense1
▪ Coop Italia ▪ Co-op Schleswig-
Holstein1
▪ E. Leclerc1
▪ Edeka Zentrale AG1
▪ EMMI1
▪ HaGe Kiel1
▪ Südzucker1
▪ FrieslandCampina▪ Agravis Raiffeisen1
▪ BayWa AG1
▪ BPCE ▪ Crédit Agricole1
▪ Crédit Coopératif ▪ Crédit Mutuel1▪ DZ Bank Group1
▪ National Associaton of Cooperative Savings & Credit Unions (Poland)
▪ Rabobank ▪ RZB1
▪ SNS REAAL1
▪ The co-operative
▪ Lega Delle Cooperative▪ Migros1
▪ Mondragon ▪ NOWEDA eG1
▪ REWE Group1
▪ The co-operative
North AmericaEurope
Emerging markets and Asia
1 Quantitative analysis only
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To conduct our analysis, we leveraged an established McKinsey method, “The Granularity of Growth,” which explains the gap between coops and the market by deconstructing growth into its key drivers
Total growth
Organic growth
Growth drivers
Market share gain▪ Organic growth due to better
execution or a better value
proposition than competition
Portfolio momentum▪ Growth of segments and
geographical areas where
the company operates
Inorganic growth
Mergers and acquisitions▪ Growth relating to acquiring
other companies
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Context and methodology
Cooperative growth strategies
Content
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Our proprietary survey of coop leaders concluded that while coops are not subject to short-term market pressure, growth remains a priority to protect their members’ interests
20
27
53
60
Offering a range of
diversified services
Having a broader impact
on members and
their communities
Generating basic economies
of scale to remain competitive
Being a leader in the market
and able to protect members’
interests
Role of growth in realizing coop executives’mission and strategic objectives
Extremely important
92
Very
important
4
Not important,
not too important,
or important to
a degree
4
SOURCE: McKinsey survey and interviews (N=48 leaders – chairman, CEO, SVP – of coops)
Importance of growth to achieving coop executives’ strategic objectives
PercentPercent
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Cooperatives grow at nearly the same rate as the markets in which they operate, but important differences exist by geography and sector
Total8.7
7.9
Food and agriculture 6.4
7.7
Retail5.5
4.7
Integrated financials 11.7
11.2
Insurance10.5
9.1
Note: Considering sample size and availability of data, growth numbers within 1% confidence interval 75% of the time
1 Analysis based on 47 cooperatives and 54 publicly listed companies; data from 2005-10
Total8.7
7.9
Asia-Pacific and emergingcountries 12.3
11.4
Europe7.4
8.9
North America8.6
4.5
Sectors of activity Geographies
Market
Cooperatives
SOURCE: Annual reports; McKinsey analysis
Annual growth rate,1 2005-10Percent
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▪ Robust coop performance is driven by– A clear focus on current members/clients
due to membership structure– Proximity and knowledge of the market– Strong, widely appreciated social values
Cooperatives grow differently from the markets in which they operate, showing stronger market share gain but lower portfolio momentum
2.4
3.3
2.2
-0.2
1.1
-1.7
2.6
Portfolio momentum
5.0
Market share gain
1.1
Mergers andacquisitions
Spread Market Comments Cooperatives
Portfolio momentum and M&A are typically the 2 strongest growth drivers
SOURCE: Annual reports; McKinsey analysis
Annualized growth 2005-10, percent
Note: Considering sample size and availability of data, growth numbers within 0.7% confidence interval 75% of the time
▪ The active search for new products and markets is not an explicit component of a cooperative’s mission
▪ Cooperatives are often less agile in execution and less prone to innovation
▪ Large variability of success against this lever between the various players and industrydue to– Difficulty in accessing capital– Cultural and structural issues limiting
integration capacity– Restrictive acts and regulations
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Insurance and integrated financial cooperatives slightly lag the market, mainly because of their presence in slower growth segments
1.1
4.3
4.8
2.1 3.3
2.9
7.6
3.6
3.0
3.3
5.0
1.4
11.7
11.2
10.5
9.1
SOURCE: Annual reports; McKinsey analysis
Annualized growth 2005-10, percent
Note: Considering sample size and availability of data, overall growth numbers for each sector is within 0.7% confidence interval 75% of the time;
growth numbers within each separate growth lever should be seen as illustrative
Diversified financials
Market share gains
Portfolio momentum
Mergers and acquisitions
Insurance
Total
Market
Cooperatives
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While retail cooperatives show mixed performance, food and agriculture coops lead their market
SOURCE: Annual reports; McKinsey analysis
Annualized growth 2005-10, percent
Note: Considering sample size and availability of data, overall growth numbers for each sector is within 0.7% confidence interval 75% of the time;
growth numbers within each separate growth lever should be seen as illustrative
4.7
5.5
6.4
7.7
0.2
3.1
1.3
2.0
3.7
3.3
4.8
3.2
2.5
1.4
-0.6
-0.5
Market
Cooperatives
Agri-food
Market share gains
Portfolio momentum
Mergers and acquisitions
Retail
Total
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Cooperatives have ventured less often beyond their borders, but those that did were able to achieve significant growth
21
28
4
18
10
54
29
35
Integrated financials
Insurance
Food and agriculture
Retail
Market
Cooperatives
7.6
1.4
1.3
6.1
1 International activities are those outside the country of origin
But the growth of international activities is superior to that of local activities
Absolute growth gap between international and local activities of cooperatives
Share of international activities in portfolio
SOURCE: Annual reports; McKinsey analysis
Comments
▪ Geographical expansion remains limited, since it does not seem to always be aligned with the immediate interests of members
▪ Coops’ growth abroad is more often achieved through acquisitions, agrowth driver where cooperatives have structural difficulties (with the exception of several financials)
Cooperatives devote a smaller fraction of their activities outside their domestic market1
Annualized growth 2005-10, percent
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Based on case examples of cooperatives with healthy growth, three opportunities emerge
Description Best practices
▪ The coop ownership model provides a competitive advantage as coops are better able to understand and
cater to the needs of their members
▪ Coops should play to their natural strengths and
further pursue market-share gains by putting members’
interests ahead of financial interests in product and
service design and delivery
Offer a value-add that only a coop can deliver in products and services
1. Put members first
2. Leverage the proximity advantage
3. Break down organizational silos
1
2
3
▪ Portfolio momentum is one of the strongest growth drivers for public companies, but it is a challenge for coops because of their emphasis on meeting the
immediate needs of existing members
▪ Coops must fight this natural tendency by putting in place
targeted modifications to their business model that enable growth in adjacent markets that are attractive to
their members and/or serve their long-term interests
▪ This strategy represents the most significant growth opportunity for coops
1. Understand unmet needs
2. Leverage distinctive capabilities
3. Use formal mechanisms to finance new opportunities
Organize to grow in attractive adjacent markets
1
2
3
▪ Coops perform similarly to the rest of the market in growth through mergers and acquisitions
▪ However, significant variability exists within this driver
given the difficulty in accessing capital, cultural and
structural issues, and restrictive regulations
Purchase a rival to gain market share
1. Seek out targets that match members’ needs
2. Assess cultural fit and future governance models
3. Form alliances
1
2
3
Growth driver
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Leverage the proximity advantage2
Offer a value-add that only a coop can deliver in products and services: cooperative case examples – 1/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Examples of best practices
▪ In 2006, NTUC Income life insurance market share was 10.9%, in an industry with a reputation for opacity and substandard customer service
▪ In 2007, NTUC Income launched its Cultural Revolution and positioned itself as the “honest” insurer
▪ In 2011, NTUC Income launched its Orange Revolution, with a focus on removing customers’ pain and being a game changer in the insurance industry
▪ To enable its revolutions, NTUC Income focused on 3 key pillars
– Adopting a new set of values that encompasses the essence of
Dynamism, complementing existing Good Values
– Becoming a customer-centric organization through offering competitive premiums, managing claims effectively, keeping expenses low, andfocusing on customer satisfaction
– Mobilizing the organization through a comprehensive branding initiativethat includes a compelling transformation story with internal initiatives and external advertisements aligned with this story
▪ This strategy helped increase the insurer’s life insurance market share to 17.5% (up from 10.9%) and grow its total income annually by more than 14% since 2007
Put member interests ahead of short-term financial gains to win loyalty and grow the member base
Case example: NTUC Income
▪ Largest composite insurer in Singapore, active in life insurance and P&C insurance
▪ Revenues: USD 3.5 billion
Put members first 1
Break down organizational silos3
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Offer a value-add that only a coop can deliver in products and services: cooperative case examples – 2/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Leverage proximity of members to develop a deeper understanding of customer needs and tailor products/services accordingly
▪ Proximity is achieved through dense presence in the field, both with multi-brand competition and an extensive network of branches
– Since the 2009 merger, BPCE has the largest network of branches in Europe
▪ BPCE put in place decision-making and performance management mechanisms that fostered local leadership while leveraging the strength of the group
– In the coop’s hiring processes, regional entities have the power to hire key executives but must do so from a pool of candidates that the central organization has qualified
– This ensures leaders’ qualities fit with the local members’ and customers’ needs, while group standards for the skill profile of the coop’s leaders are maintained
▪ From 2005 to 2010, BPCE generated an annualized organic growth of 10.8% over 5 years, two-thirds of which resulted from market share gain
Case example: BPCE
▪ Formed in July 2009 as an alliance of Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Épargne
▪ BPCE Group has 80,000 employees and generates revenues of EUR 23 billion
Put members first 1
Leverage the proximity advantage2
Break down organizational silos3
Examples of best practices
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Offer a value-add that only a coop can deliver in products and services: cooperative case examples – 3/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Break down silos to better serve members’needs and increase their benefits through multiple product offerings
▪ The co-operative launched a cross-selling and synergy effort to eliminate silos between divisions at first, and then extended it into a group-wide branding operation
▪ The organization launched a group-wide loyalty and branding effort to make customers more aware of all the different products and services it offers
▪ The co-operative’s branding initiative transformed the different logos of the various services into an integrated, recognizable brand
▪ The conversion of the membership card as a loyalty card increased customer benefits of doing more business across service lines
– 25% of profits are distributed as dividends to members in proportion to their overall spending
▪ This strategy boosted membership, bringing it to 7 million in 2012 from 800,000 in 2005 (36% CAGR)
▪ It also allowed the coop to drive member loyalty, deliver maximum value to its members across all product types, and generate a good deal of organic growth
Case example: The co-operative▪ The largest cooperative in the United Kingdom
with a strong presence in food retail, banking and insurance services, funeral services, pharmacies, and other services
▪ Revenues (2010): USD 22 billion
Leverage the proximity advantage2
Examples of best practices
Break down organizational silos3
Put members first 1
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Organize to grow in attractive adjacent markets: cooperative case examples – 1/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Systematically research unmet needs in the customer base to effectively explore adjacent markets
▪ E. Leclerc leveraged the entrepreneurial nature of its store owners to research the unmet needs of their customer base. Store owners are encouraged to seek out opportunities to make certain markets more accessible, for example by reducing prices or improving distribution
▪ When an opportunity explored by one of these store owners succeeds in providing value to members, it is rapidly scaled up throughout the group
▪ Following this model, E. Leclerc entered the gas distribution market to combat gasoline distribution cartels in the mid 1970s
▪ E. Leclerc focused on serving customers and combating high gas prices instead of exploiting short-term profit opportunities. It also entered jewellery retailing to make jewelry more affordable to its customer base (under the slogan “Gold for everyone”)
▪ Using this operational strategy, the company achieved sustained organic growth of 4.4% annually, and today is the largest jewelry retailers in France
Case example: E. Leclerc▪ E. Leclerc is a merchant cooperative and one of
the leading food companies in France
▪ Revenues (2010): USD 49 billion
Understand unmet needs1
Leverage distinctive capabilities2
Use formal mechanisms to finance new opportunities
3
Examples of best practices
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Understand unmet needs1
Leverage distinctive capabilities2
Use formal mechanisms to finance new opportunities
3
Organize to grow in attractive adjacent markets: cooperative case examples – 2/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Leverage knowledge, experience, and/or unique expertise to capitalize on opportunities in new markets/geographies
▪ Rabobank is a federation of 139 financial cooperatives whose roots are in the Dutch agricultural sector
▪ After an attempt at traditional investment banking in the 1990s, Rabobank made the strategic decision to become a financial leader in the international food and agricultural sector
▪ It achieved that goal by leveraging the expertise it had developed domestically with over 100 years’ presence in the Dutch food and agricultural sector, and by using its knowledge of the cooperative model
▪ Rabobank focused its international growth in cities where large agricultural members were already present and needed banking services, opening offices in those cities to offer banking to those clients and grow organically from there
▪ Rabobank leverages its cooperative nature to achieve its growth strategy
– Its focus on domestic retail banking enabled Rabobank to gain a domi-nant position through a dense network of high-quality points of services
– An entrepreneurial system leverages decentralization to foster new ideas from members, customers, employees, and the community
▪ 36% of Rabobank’s growth is now attributable to its international activities
Case example: Rabobank▪ Rabobank is an integrated financial institution in
the Netherlands
▪ Revenues (2010): USD 17 billion
Examples of best practices
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Organize to grow in attractive adjacent markets: cooperative case examples – 3/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Develop mechanisms to ensure necessary investment allocations for exploring new markets/geographies
▪ FrieslandCampina capital management reflects the long-term horizon that is specific to cooperatives. To ensure availability of capital to fuel its long-term growth, FrieslandCampina allocates 50% of its profits as retained earnings while another 20% of its earnings are kept within the organization as non-negotiable member bonds (see below)
▪ This strategy enables the company to have access to a major source of capital to finance its growth. In 2010, FrieslandCampina’s member bonds liability was worth EUR 1 billion
▪ To effective deploy this capital, FrieslandCampina keeps members’ interests at the centre and evaluates all potential investments against 2 metrics
– The promise of high profitability so that it can contribute to performance-premium payments for the coop’s member farmers
– The promise of higher sales of milk so that it will boost farmers’ income
Case example: FrieslandCampina▪ FrieslandCampina is a Dutch dairy
cooperative
▪ Revenues (2011): EUR 9.6 billion
Annual profits
Retained earnings Redistributed to members
60%
50% 50%
Cash dividends Member bonds
40%
Understand unmet needs1
Leverage distinctive capabilities2
Use formal mechanisms to finance new opportunities
3
Examples of best practices
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Additionally, our research revealed best practices for successful inorganic growth through M&A – 1/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports, press releases
Seek out targets that create strong synergies with current activities and meet members’ needs
▪ In 2005, Rabobank bought ~25% of Eureko’s shares, of which Achmea is a subsidiary. In return, Rabobank transferred its Dutch insurance subsidiary, Interpolis, to Achmea, creating significant synergies for members
▪ The purpose of the merger was to leverage the strong portfolio of brands and excellent distribution power of the 2 companies, and to consolidate its position in the market in order to position the companies for growth while also better and more efficiently serving members’interests
▪ The new entity’s strategy was to offer targeted and tailored products to clients, in particular high-quality health insurance and P&C at good prices, while benefiting from economies of scale in shared back-office processes
▪ As a first step, Interpolis started offering Achmea’s complementary products– Health insurance products were sold through the local Rabobanks
starting after the merger in 2005
– Rabobank and Interpolis moved their personnel insurance sourcing to Achmea
▪ The merger created the largest insurance group in the Netherlands
Case example: Achmea▪ Dutch insurance cooperative
▪ Revenues (2010): USD 33.5 billion
Seek out targets that match members’needs
1
Assess cultural fit 2
Form innovative alliances 3
Examples of best practices
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Seek out targets that match members’needs
1
Assess cultural fit 2
Form innovative alliances 3
Additionally, our research revealed best practices for successful inorganic growth through M&A – 2/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Assess the cultural fit of candidates for potential mergers and evaluate future governance scenarios
▪ Friesland Foods and Campina had grown amidst the consolidation of local and regional dairy coops and no-payment mergers over the past century. In 2008, they used their experience of past mergers to form a single organization
▪ The final outcome, Royal FrieslandCampina, is considered a state-of-the-art merger, which has properly equipped the cooperative for the future, particularly the abolition of the quota system in Europe in 2015. This strategy created the 5th largest dairy organization in the world
▪ As key executives explain, 2 factors played key roles in the success of the merger– A clear mutual understanding of the future of key roles and
responsibilities in the new entities – A due diligence on the “fit” of the 2 institutions before the merger
▫ Business fit. The 2 companies had highly compatible business models with diversification across product groups and geographies, strong brands, and international scale in research, production, marketing, and sales
▫ Cultural fit. Both organizations shared common cooperative valuesand focused on maximizing the value of members’ milk
Case example: FrieslandCampina▪ Dutch dairy cooperative
▪ Revenues (2011): EUR 9.6 billion
Examples of best practices
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Additionally, our research revealed best practices for successful inorganic growth through M&A – 3/3
SOURCE: Interviews with coop leaders; annual reports
Form innovative alliances to take advantage of benefits of scale without sacrificing autonomy
▪ Insurers in small Latin American countries had to deal with difficult operating conditions, for example, a lack of statistics on risk and unusually high latent risks (e.g., homicide rate)
▪ In 2004, 5 mutuals (Columna, Compañía de Seguros, Guatemala; Coop-Seguros, Dominican Republic; Seguros Equidad, Honduras; Seguros Fedpa, Panama; and Seguros Futuro, El Salvador) formed a group to tackle difficulties in buying reinsurance individually. The group has grown to include 14 insurance cooperatives today
▪ LARG enables cooperatives to make collective reinsurance purchases, which reduces risk (and therefore cost to clients) and boosts sales
▪ The cost of reinsurance has declined by 20 to 30% for cooperatives in the alliance, and LARG is adopting a charter of rights and duties for each member in order to explore new forms of partnership
Case example: LARG▪ Alliance of 14 insurance cooperatives and
mutuals in Latin America
LARG’s missionTo acquire effective reinsurance and technical capacity in order to promote
the development and growth of mutual and cooperative insurers in Latin America through integration and Cooperative Principles
Seek out targets that match members’needs
1
Assess cultural fit 2
Form innovative alliances 3
Examples of best practices