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Ethnic foods and flavors, natural and organic ingredients in food and personal care items, health and wellness concerns, and new packaging design and innovations are just a few of the trends fueling a profusion of private label new product development these days.Retailers are offering spiced-up sele
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Wall Street is watching closely as private label continues to gain market share and national CPG brands counterattack. Andrew Sawyer, vice president of Goldman Sachs, gives a Wall Street perspective on CPG trade promotions and advertising, pricing gaps and how things might shake out in the future. V
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Simon Barnes, a senior analyst and consultant at U.K.’s IGD specializing in sustainability, looks at what’s ahead. Will sustainability programs hurt private label? What’s the impact of Walmart’s scorecard? How are the big brands reacting? VIEW VIDEO
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Shoppers are ready to begin spending again, especially the most affluent ones who report they are seeing economic improvement, according to a new GfK North America consumer study commissioned by the Private Label Manufacturers Association.
Without question, the protracted recession has deeply affec
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PLMA interviews Joe Angel, vice president and publisher of Packaging World magazine and looks at the changing relationship between private label and packaging suppliers. VIEW VIDEO
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Don McGeorge, former president and COO of The Kroger Co., the country’s largest supermarket chain, discusses store brand innovation, supplier relations and the competitive retail landscape in this week’s edition of PLMA Live! VIEW VIDEO
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More than 1,800 store brand manufacturers and suppliers from 65 countries will show their wares at the PLMA World of Private Label show opening today in the RAI Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam.
The two-day show features 39 national and regional pavilions, including new ones from Singapore, Hungary,
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As consumers continue to struggle economically the appeal of store brands is stronger than ever and may even be intensifying, according to a study conducted by GfK Custom Research North America for the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA).
American consumers are at odds with recent report
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Sales of store brands topped $86.4, up $3.1 billion, across the major U.S. retail channels in 2009, according to The Nielsen Company.
With 2009 gains, store brands now represent 21.8 percent of total dollar volume while comprising only 10 percent of total items in stores. This contrasts dramaticall
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The Private Label Manufacturers Association honored 23 food and beverage products and 11 home and health products in its 2009 Salute to Excellence Awards.
Wegman's Chocolate
More than 350 products across 34 categories were submitted for consideration and evaluated by a panel of
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How are retailers coping with the tough economy? Can national brands win back market share? Why is Wall Street so interested in store brands? Deborah Weinswig, who covers retailing for Citigroup Investment Research, answers these questions and more in this edition of PLMA Live! VIEW VIDEO
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Because brands are a retailer’s prime differentiator, most who are serious about their private label business want to move their portfolios from labels to brands in order to achieve deeper customer loyalty and sales growth.
In fact, retailers who move their business to a more advanced strateg
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Author: Maureen AzzatoTags: private label manufacturers association,
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Kim Greenfeld, an expert in natural and organic products who has worked with Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, discusses what categories are primed for growth, what national brands are moving into the natural and organic space and if there is enough supply in the pipeline to meet demand. Greenfeld
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Tod Marks, senior projects editor of Consumer Reports discusses the consumer advocacy group’s recent taste tests and comparison of store brands against their national brand counterparts.
In this video interview, Marks documents how consumers selected store brands to be as good or better than
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The next frontier for store brands is products and packaging innovation, especially focused on categories that national brand manufacturers spend the least amount of time and effort marketing against, according to Lisa Rider, V.P. Retail Marketing U.S. for The Nielsen Company
Store brands clearly b
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Global market share of private label products is forecasted to reach 65 percent by 2025, up from the current 20 percent, according to research conducted by A.T. Kearney, a management consulting company.
Until recently, store brand growth was mostly fueled by European retailers, with many posting up
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Despite the soft economy, there is a great deal of store brand development occurring in the marketplace, “and the time is now to find ways to make private label growth sustainable through innovation,” said Scott Lucas, executive director of Interbrand, the keynote speaker during Monday&r
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More than 25 speakers and seminars at PLMA’s 2009 Private Label Trade Show Nov. 15-17 will demonstrate how to get current with cutting-edge innovations in retailing, marketing, technology, packaging, and quality control. The seminars, presented in conjunction with the launch of PLMA&rsqu
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Editor's Note: This is the first part of a series on store brands innovation, leading up to the PLMA Private Label Trade Show Nov. 15-17 in Chicago. Subsequent articles will feature case studies and focus on topics such as consumer insights, product testing and certification, packaging design, strat
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In response to the growing store brands movement, Store Brands Decisions debuted today as the first web-based information resource for the store brands industry.
Sometimes referred to as private label, store brands, own brands or private brands, retailers are increasingly marketing consumer product
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Gone are the days when one store satisfied all family and household needs. Today, shoppers are less loyal to the stores they shop in and many shop in several different formats to satisfy their varied and fickle needs.
Grocery retailers understand this trend full well.
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