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- Part 2 of 2: Kroger and Loblaw Roll Out Retail-Ready Packaging for Store Brands
- Wal-Mart Relaunches the Marketside Web Site
- New Consumer Study Says Frugal is Cool
- Dollar General Renews Focus on Store Brands
- Supervalu Introduces WholeCare Pet Store Brand
- Sam's Club Adds New Spanish Wine to its Store Brand Line Up
- Tesco Dramatically Expands Store Brand Wines
- OfficeMax To Sell its Store Brands at Safeway and Food Lion
- Kroger and Loblaw Roll Out Retail-Ready Packaging for Store Brands (Part 1 of 2)
- Safeway Becomes First Grocer and Store Brand Manufacturer to Join The Sustainability Consortium
Current Articles
March 9, 2010
Part 2 of 2: Kroger and Loblaw Roll Out Retail-Ready Packaging for Store Brands
Both retailers aim to reduce store brand labor costs, improve shelf presence and boost sales based on the five core pillars of their retail-ready packaging execution.
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March 9, 2010
Wal-Mart Relaunches the Marketside Web Site
The retail giant now showcases its Marketside store brand via a web tool that looks like an outdoor European martketplace.
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March 9, 2010
New Consumer Study Says Frugal is Cool
It’s hard to know which way consumers are going looking at two conflicting reports -- one indicating entrenched frugality and another revealing loosening spending trends.
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March 9, 2010
Dollar General Renews Focus on Store Brands
The retailer launches several new store brand lines and invigorates existing ones with more aggressive switch-and-save in-store promotions.
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March 9, 2010
Supervalu Introduces WholeCare Pet Store Brand
The grocer unveils a brand new national pet care line that will be sold across all of its banners and replace two former store brands.
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March 9, 2010
Sam's Club Adds New Spanish Wine to its Store Brand Line Up
From the Bodegas Torres winery, the Spanish red is a blend of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon, retailing for about $8 a bottle.
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March 9, 2010
Tesco Dramatically Expands Store Brand Wines
The U.K. retailer plans to add more than 20 SKUs to its store brand wines and also test plastic bottles for its store brand spirits.
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March 9, 2010
OfficeMax To Sell its Store Brands at Safeway and Food Lion
As part of its plan to aggressively boost sales and margins, OfficeMax will sell its store brand office products in grocery stores, drug stores and mass merchandisers.
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March 2, 2010
Kroger and Loblaw Roll Out Retail-Ready Packaging for Store Brands (Part 1 of 2)
Taking a page from the CPG playbook -- as well as from limited assortment retailers and discounters -- two large North American grocers adopt RRP to reduce expenses, but store brand suppliers claim their costs will rise.
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March 2, 2010
Safeway Becomes First Grocer and Store Brand Manufacturer to Join The Sustainability Consortium
The consortium’s work will help Safeway build its Environmentally Preferable Purchasing policy for a more sustainable supply chain.
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Store Brands Research
IRI: Baby Boomers to Yield $50 Billion Growth for Private Label and Healthy Lines
The latest IRI research, "Baby Boomers II: Preparing for the Upcoming Wave of Aging Shopper Growth," reveals that store brand spending increases with age. The study examines baby boomer lifestyle changes and identifies top-indexing food and non-food categories, recession-driven shopping patterns and key opportunities for private label and health and wellness products. "Many retailer strategies today assume that boomers are a homogeneous group, and, as a result, their strategies are too general to be effective," said Thom Blischok, president of IRI Consulting & Innovation.
Source: IRI
Better-for-You Foods to Grow Significantly Over the Next Decade
In its new report, "A Look into The Future of Eating," The NPD Group forecasts that better-for-you foods -- such as organic and light or low-calorie foods and beverages -- will be among the fastest growing food trends over the next decade.
Source: The NPD Group
Private Label Trends - Update 2009
This special update to the Private Label Trends Worldwide report addresses the acceleration of private labels as the retailers respond to the current economic downturn.
Source: Research and Markets Ltd.
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Source: GFSI
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Announces New Board Chairman
Source: Global Food Safety Initiative
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