Membership Definitions

Regular Corporate Membership

Manufacturers, packagers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, educational institutions, distributors, consultants, brokers, marketing organizations, associations, and other industry companies.

Retail Corporate Membership

To qualify for retail membership, 90% of business revenue must be derived from the sale of finished products to the individual person or household who will actually consume the products. The retailer operates food venues such as a supermarket, convenience store, delicatessen, cheese shop, gourmet shop, restaurant, etc.

Also included in this class are the voluntary wholesalers (owns retail stores) and the cooperative wholesaler (owned by a group of retail stores).

Retail category DOES NOT include "factory outlet" stores or manufacturing units of retailers that sell to a third party.

DSD Distributor Corporate Membership

Business revenue is derived from purchasing large lots of bulk or finished food products/commodities and, in turn, selling and delivering smaller lots of bulk or finished food products/commodities to wholesalers, retailers or food service outlets AND through direct store delivery, servicing these food products with their own sales force in the primary market area for their business.

Repackaging or manufacturing may not be a part of a direct store delivery distributor's business to qualify for the DSD category of membership.

Individual Membership

"Individual Membership" extends numerous opportunities for education, training, exchange of industry data, networking and professional growth to additional staff from member companies.

Individual Membership is available to the staff of current Corporate IDDBA Members only. You may add as many Individual Members as you want for $125 each, annually.

Final determination of categories is subject to approval.

For the purpose of membership, every separately functioning, individually identified division of a company or corporation shall be considered separately for membership.

Each individual firm or corporation that is accepted as a corporate member of IDDBA designates a representative (Contact Person) for the receipt of all mail and membership materials.

Membership year is January 1 - December 31, or any part of membership year.

Contributions or gifts to IDDBA are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for Federal Income Tax purposes. However, payments may be deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense.