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Whole Foods Redesigns Its Store Brands Prepared Food Packaging

Gone are the days of offering customers different types of foodservice packaging at different Whole Foods Markets across the country. Under the leadership of branding and advertising agency Duffy & Partners, the retailer is unveiling a unified package design for its bakery products, soups, and Read More...

Publix Debuts Kids' Meals

At the end of the month Publix Deli will offer five proprietary fresh, ready-to-eat kids’ meals –– including an entrée, two sides and a drink –– for $3.99. The deli worked with Publix’s in-house registered dietician to ensure each meal was balanced, wholes Read More...

New Store Brands Debut from International Retailers

Canadian grocer Sobeys launched a line of chilled ready-to-eat foods, Morrisons of the U.K, a healthy-eating line, while Casino of France rolls out a specialty coffee capsule and Denmark’s SuperGros focuses on an organic and eco-friendly line. Sobey’s food line, marketed under the Gourm Read More...

Rite Aid Introduces Simplify

Rite Aid is rolling out Simplify, its new “price fighter” store brand, as part of the drug chain’s plan to revamp its entire store brands program with a new look, new brands and additional offerings. Simplify products currently available in stores include two-ply paper towels and Read More...

Walgreens Confirms Chilled Foods Test this Fall

This fall, Walgreen Co. will begin testing chilled foods –– including sandwiches, wraps, fresh fruit cups, soups and salads –– at approximately a dozen stores. Walgreens spokesperson Tiffani Washington confirmed the test to the Wall Street Journal, noting the food initiativ Read More...

Ralcorp Buys Three Bakery Companies

Kevin Hunt Less than a week after making a $1.2 billion acquisition of American Italian Pasta Company, Ralcorp Holdings announced three other acquisition –– North American Baking, JT Bakeries and Sepp's Gourmet Foods. North American Baking, formerly known as PL Foods, Read More...

Walgreens to Sell DR Delish Chainwide

Beginning in August, Walgreens said it plans to introduce a selection of Duane Reade’s DR Delish store brands to its stores chainwide. After acquiring Duane Reade earlier this year, Walgreens’ CEO Greg Wasson said the company was impressed with the success of the DR Delish line. The ann Read More...

Walmart's and Great Kitchens' BBQ Pizzas Recalled

Great Kitchens Inc., a private label manufacturer and maker of Walmart’s Marketside pizzas, issued a recall for nearly 110,000 pounds of BBQ chicken pizza product sold mostly at Walmart stores. The affected products were produced by the Romeoville, Ill.-based company on June 15 and 16. Great Read More...

A&P's Doug Palmer Named Brand Innovator of 2010

Doug Palmer, vice president of store brands for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. (A&P), was named a Brand Innovator 2010, the only store brands retail executive to be recognized this year by Brand Packaging magazine. “Doug Palmer has made an indelible impression on a long and notabl Read More...

BJ's Rolls Out High-End Store Branded Baked Goods

BJ’s Wholesale Club launched Wellsley Farms brand pastries inspired by European artisans-style products such as breads, croissants, Danishes, muffins and other pastries. The new line, featuring enhanced ingredients and old world baking processes, is baked throughout the day at BJ’s 189 Read More...

Nice N Easy Store Brands Steadily Grow

New York convenience store chain Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes is expanding its store brands portfolio, including packaged snacks, beverages and coffee. "We have selected categories that we feel we are being held hostage by direct-store delivery (DSD) vendors with questionable service and terrible pr Read More...

Kroger's New and Remodeled Units Offer Expanded Prepared Foods

A part of its $100 million expansion and renovation project, Kroger stores will feature upgraded ready-to-eat food areas that will offer many store brands menu items positioned to compete with restaurants. “It is something we consider at all of our store investments and remodels,” spoke Read More...

Delhaize Store Brands Focus on Seasonal BBQ Promotions

Bloom grocery stores is tantalizing consumer senses using a new billboard advertising technology that emits the smell of cooking steak to promote its new line of store brand steak. Located in Mooresville, N.C, the billboard along River Highway uses a system created by ScentAir of Charlotte, N.C., a Read More...

Gluten-Free Store Brand Products on the Rise

Since 2004, sales of gluten-free products have increased 74 percent, and more store brands are touting the gluten-free benefits of their products. In response to the rising number of  U.S. consumer swho suffer from Celiac Disease, more than 62 percent of store brands claim to be gluten-free, t Read More...

Leaders in European Premium Private Label Chocolate Expand to North America

Farm-to-bar producer of award-winning natural chocolate for leading European retailers, ICAM S.p.A. is expanding its private label chocolate manufacturing program to North America. The new North American sales office operating under the brand Agostoni Chocolate, will be located in Los Angeles where Read More...

Aldi Embraces Flexible Packaging for Store Brand Frozen Entrees

Aldi's new Bremer Select store brand entrees are using a combination of flexible packaging and a thermal processing technique that reportedly delivers restaurant quality results. Previously available to cook frozen vegetables, the packaging and cooking technology is now expanding into foods that fe Read More...

FDA Considers Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking comments and research about the usefulness of front-of-package nutrition labeling, which it believes might enhance consumer access to information. The FDA said it is looking for research that assesses and compares the effectiveness of various front-of-pac Read More...

CVS to Test Expanded Grocery and Store Brand Prepared Foods

CVS Caremark Corp. is expanding its grocery section and adding prepared fresh salads and sandwiches at urban stores to bolster non-pharmacy sales and keep pace with competitors. "We have a select group of stores currently reconfigured where we are tailoring our assortment to how the consumer shops Read More...

Wegmans Unveils Irradiated Specialty Burgers and Sliders

Wegmans is offering customers a new twist on its store brand specialty burgers and sliders this grilling season –– fresh ground beef that has been irradiated for extra food safety so customers can enjoy their burgers at their favorite temperature. “You can cook it the way you like Read More...

Sanfilippo Profits Rise as Company Contemplates Acquisitions

John B. Sanfilippo & Son, the country’s largest private label nut manufacturer, posted significant earnings increases and indicated it is eying some potential acquisitions for next year. For the first nine months of the year, Sanfilippo earned $11.7 million, up form $3 million in the same Read More...

Wegmans Takes a Stand on Products Containing BPA

Mary Ellen Burris Responding to customer concerns about the health and environmental concerns over Bisphenol A (BPA), Mary Ellen Burris, Wegmans’ senior vice president of consumer affairs, issue an update on the grocer’s position on her weekly blog. BPA, a controversi Read More...

Hannaford Removes Trans Fats From Store Brand Products

Hannaford, a Delhaize grocery chain, modified recipes for 295 store brand items to remove artery-clogging trans fats from its entire store brand food line, according to a report in MPBN News. "Our shoppers want choices that help them save money and eat better, and the Hannaford brand can help on bo Read More...

Bloom Unveils Store Brand Hand-Cut Beef

Looking to offer customers a steakhouse experience “at an honest price,” Bloom launched fresh hand-cut Black Angus beef from Sheffield & Sons, a small family farm in Aberdeen County, Scotland. “Black Angus is served today in fine steakhouses for a good reason: its juicy, mouth Read More...

ConAgra Acquires Elan Nutrition from Sun Capital Partners

ConAgra Foods acquired Elan Nutrition, a privately held manufacturer of snack and nutrition bars, which will be integrated into the company’s store brands business. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Con Agra’s store brands unit primarily makes cereal and snack bars. Read More...

Fresh & Easy Launches New Healthy Prepared Food Line

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market launched EatWell, a new line of 17 healthy, ready-to-eat prepared meals and sides “to help customers manage their diets without compromising on taste.” Made fresh in the company’s Riverside, Calif.-kitchen, products include entrees, salads and Read More...

Italian Trade Missions Showcase Authentic Italian Products Opportunity

The Italian Trade Commission (ITC) is sponsoring multiple trade missions to Italy over the next few months, with the first one slated for Bari on April 18. Participants in the April event –– Kehe Distributors, Tree of Life, Daymon Worldwide, Isola Imports and Glazer's Distributors &ndas Read More...

TreeHouse Plans Another Store Brand Acquisition

TreeHouse Foods CEO Sam Reed said he expects store branded food sales to continue to grow and hopes to make another store brand manufacturer acquisition by the middle of next year, according to a Dow Jones Newswire report. Reed explained that Treehouse –– whose business is focused on st Read More...

Waitrose Targets Desk Jockeys with New Lunchtime Store Brands Line

U.K’s Waitrose has introduced 90 new store brand products geared to inspire grab-and-go lunchtime eaters who are often forced to eat and work at their desks. Targeting what it calls “al desko” diners, Waitrose is expanding its sandwich and salad line to include open-faced sandwich Read More...

Store Brand Nut Manufacturer Implements New Forecasting Software

John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), maker of Fisher Nuts and one of America’s largest store brand snack nut manufacturers, is implementing Demand Foresight’s best-of-breed demand planning and supply chain management software. Based in Illinois, JBSS has five processing facilities natio Read More...

Publix Recalls Store Brand Seasonings and Mixes

Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix Super Markets issued a voluntary recall of four varieties of its store brand seasoning mixes over concerns the packages could be contaminated with salmonella. Manufactured with HVP (hydrolyzed vegetable protein) supplied by Basic Food Flavors of Las Vegas, the company sa Read More...

Wal-Mart Relaunches the Marketside Web Site

Wal-Mart relaunched Marketside.com to better showcase its new private label line of prepared meals, produce and bakery items with a tool that walks customers through a vibrantly colored European-style marketplace. “Fresh, delicious foods shouldn’t be expensive,” the web site procl Read More...

Shearer's Buys Wal-Mart's Salty Snack Supplier

Shearer’s Foods Inc. has agreed to buy Snack Alliance Inc., the maker of store-brand potato chips for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., but term of the deal were not disclosed. Shearer’s –– an Ohio distributor of private label snacks that is majority owned by New York City private equit Read More...

Carrefour Partners With Disney on Store Brand Food Line

In partnership with Walt Disney Company, Carrefour launched a new store brand food line for children with a strong commitment to nutrition that includes approximately 50 products Called Carrefour Kids, the line features Disney characters and includes cereal, pasta, stewed fruit, cream cheese, tarts Read More...

Trader Joe's Recalls Store Brand Granola Bars

This week Trader Joe’s expanded its earlier lot-specific recall of its store brand chocolate chip granola bars due to possible salmonella contamination. On its web site, Trader Joe’s wrote to its customers: “We have been alerted by our supplier … that there is a possibility Read More...

Wal-Mart Switches Store Brand Eggs to Cage-Free

Wal-Mart’s Great Value eggs will switch to cage-free varieties, prompting The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to withdraw a shareholder resolution it submitted to the mass merchandiser last November asking it to report on its cage-free progress, according to Media-Newswire.com. "By Read More...

Wal-Mart Tests Private Label Spice Program

As market share of store brand spices have increased more than a point over the past year, Wal-Mart is testing replacing leading manufacturer brands with its store brands in test locations, according to the Wall Street Journal. Store brand spices have increased market share from13.5 percent in 2008 Read More...

Nutrition Claims on Store Brand Products Rise

As shoppers seek healthier food alternatives, retailers are developing more store brand products that carrying health claims such as genetically modified organism (GMO) free, gluten free and the absence of certain fats, according to an article written by Nielsen’s Tom Pirovano. “Store b Read More...

PBM Products Hires Former Hershey Executive

PBM Products LLC, which supplies store brand infant formulas to Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Target, Kroger, CVS and Walgreens, hired Thomas K. Hernquist to lead its store brand marketing and innovations. With more than 20 years of management experience with some of the world's leading brands -- including Read More...

TreeHouse Dominates Canada's Non-Dairy Creamer Store Brand Segment

TreeHouse Foods' E.D. Smith subsidiary signed an agreement to directly supply the Canadian retail store brand non-dairy creamer business rather than sell through Sandra, a privately owned Canadian manufacturer of tea, coffee and related products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but are Read More...

Loblaw's No Name Store Brand Uses Stripped Down Advertising

Defying new retail packaging and design standards, a year ago Loblaw relaunched its No Name store brand, which coincidentally fell in synch with consumers' back-to basics shopping approach and the 1978 roots of the no-frills brand. But the company's new heavyweight advertising campaign for its No N Read More...

Walgreens Hires New Fresh Food Director

As the nation's largest drug chain intends to expand into fresh foods, it tapped Jim Jensen who held a similar position at Tesco's Fresh & Easy chain on the West Coast, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Before joining Fresh & Easy Jensen worked for Dallas-based 7-Eleven. Jensen joi Read More...

Wegmans Launches 'Special Blends'

Wegmans introduced a new line of store brand frozen mixed vegetables, called Special Blends, which are flash-frozen with less than two hours between harvest and processing, according to the company's web site. The varieties include Broccoli, Cauliflower and Pine Nuts in an olive oil, garlic and her Read More...

Walgreen Tests Store Brand Prepared Foods

Walgreen Co. plans to offer private label fresh prepared foods to attract time-pressed customers to its store and better competes with other retailers offering food, according to a Bloomberg report. "Everyone is time-starved and we have the most convenient 7,000 locations in the U.S.," Bryan Pugh, Read More...

Food Lion Introduces New Store Brand Cereal

Sold at its Food Lion and Harveys banners, Salisbury, N.C.-based Food Lion introduced a low-sugar children’s cereal called Good 4 Kids. The cereal is available in four varieties ––apple cinnamon, honey, fruity and chocolate, according to a Supermarket News report. Good 4 Kids als Read More...

Brookshire Brothers to Sell O Organics and Eating Right

Brookshire Brothers plans to carry the Eating Right and O Organics brands, both of which were initially developed as a Safeway private label, according to a Supermarket News Report. The Lufkin, Texas-based retailer will roll out approximately 300 certified organic O Organics SKUs and 250 Eating Rig Read More...

Target Unveils Two Store Brand Initiatives in Kitchenware and Home Garden

This week Target launches Giada De Laurentiis branded kitchenware and foods, an exclusive line of affordable cookware products and specialty foods for the budget conscious home cook. Designed for everyday cooking, the new assortment by Giada -- an award-winning chef and Food Network personality -- Read More...

TreeHouse Agrees to Acquire Sturm Foods

TreeHouse Foods Inc. has agreed to pay $600 million to buy Sturm Foods, a private label manufacturer of hot cereal and powdered soft-drink mixes for retailers. Completion of the Sturm acquisition will make TreeHouse the leader in the private-label hot cereal and powdered soft-drink mix categories, Read More...

PLMA LIVE! on Natural and Organic Opportunities

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 Read More...

Store Brands Gain Share in Significant Categories

Store brands tallied significant gains in several categories this year, including baby food, frozen pizza, salad dressings and mayonnaise, snacks, and candles and incense, according to Nielsen data. Private label baby food was the lead share winner with unit sales growth of 22.3 percent for the 52 Read More...

Store Brand Infant Formula Supplier Wins Lawsuit Against Mead Johnson & Co.

A jury awarded store-brand infant formula supplier, PBM Products, $13.5 million in damages stemming from a lawsuit it filed against national brand competitor Mead Johnson & Co. for engaging in false and misleading advertising. PBM’s suit claimed advertising by Mead Johnson, maker of Enfam Read More...

Debunking the Hispanic Store Brands Myth

For years, marketers have taken for granted that Hispanic consumers have a strong affinity to national brands and are extremely brand loyal. However, there are fissures in that theory as more Hispanics seek alternative choices such as store brands, according to Hispanic retailer roundtable hosted a Read More...

7-Eleven Promotes Executive to Focus Exclusively on Private Label Product Development

Tom Gerrity, who has directed 7-Eleven Inc.’s private-label packaged food business while also supervising the grocery category, will now focus solely on the company’s growing 7-Select store brand line. As the new senior product director for private label products, Gerrity will oversee s Read More...

Wal-Mart Recycles Corrugate into Store Brand Pizza Boxes

Wal-Mart is reducing its carbon footprint by recycling the cardboard waste collected in its stores and converting it into boxes for its store brand take-and-bake pizza programs. “We’ve totally and literally closed the loop using a retailer’s own boxes to go through a paper mill an Read More...

Meijer Launches Specialty Store Brand Foods

The new Meijer Gold debuts this month and offers a collection of original recipe items that are either made by a local company within the Meijer operating region or by a family-owned business. The line also features interesting foods endemic to a particular place or country. With diverse delicacies Read More...

Target Launches Better-for-You Archer Farms Brand Extension

Focused on helping families eat right at affordable prices, Target introduced Archer Farms Simply Balanced, a line extension off its premium Archer Farms line. The new food line is built around better-for-you nutrition that’s budget friendly and includes more than 70 products such as pasta, c Read More...

Research Reveals Untapped Profits in Authentic Italian Store Brands

Italian food lovers know quality ingredients when they taste them or cook with them, and can easily detect imposters. Most U.S. grocery stores have not yet captured this important and growing customer base that likely shops at specialty stores and Italian markets to find authentic Italian products. Read More...

7-Eleven Private Label Summit Focuses on Supplier Education

At its first Private Label Summit in Dallas last week, 7-Eleven executives said the company plans to expand the 7-Select private label portfolio in U.S. stores to 300 items in 2010, adding frozen foods such as pizza and mozzarella cheese sticks next month. As the company increases its commitment to Read More...

Wal-Mart Downsizes and Recasts its Marketside Web Site

A big switch from being a fairly deep web site about the assortment of prepared foods, produce, bakery, wines and cheeses offered at its chain of small format lifestyle food stores, Wal-Mart had altered the site to a basic landing page promoting its new Marketside store brand. The web site boasts: Read More...

Wal-Mart and Kroger Recall Select Store Brand Dairy Products

Morningstar Foods is recalling a number of dairy products -- including whipping cream and chocolate ice cream mix products used in grocery store brands -- because they might contain soy protein, which is not noted on the label or packaging. The recalled items include certain units of Wal-Mart&rsquo Read More...

Kroger Unveils Produce Traceability Technology

Kroger’s new line of store brand fresh salads includes new technology on the packaging that enables customers to learn where the produce was grown as part of Kroger’s “Quality You Can Trace” program. The operator of 2,470 stores nationwide teamed with HarvestMark, a food tra Read More...

Store Brands Stifle Kraft Growth Across Core Categories

While pizza is a key sales and market driver for Kraft Foods, private brand are winning market share in other core categories such as nuts, cookies, crackers and cheese according to a Chicago Tribune report.Although Kraft pizza sales have increased by double-digits over the past seven consecutive qu Read More...

7-Eleven Accelerates Its March into Store Brands

To complement its growing line of 7-Select store brand products, 7-Eleven is adding 15 packaged bakery items, including snack cakes and pies, mini-donuts and breakfast pastries in single-serve and 10-ounce bags of mini donuts.Participating 7-Eleven stores are offering each of the single-serve items Read More...

Organic Watchdog Group Takes on Target Store Brands

Target' Corp. is being accused by U.S. organic farming group, The Cornucopia Institute, for alleged misleading consumers into thinking some conventional food items it sells are organic.The institute -- which filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's organic program, and Wisconsin an Read More...

Nielsen: Store Brand Candy Sales Not So Sweet This Halloween

Store brands seem to be getting the short end of the sales stick this season as most shoppers opt for national brand candy leading up to Halloween, according to a report in Nielsen Wire. Although during the year, store brands candy hold an 8.1 percent share of candy sales, that position has slipped Read More...

A&P Adds Artisan Cheeses to its Hartford Reserve Store Brand Line

This week Montvale, N.J.-based A&P introduced a new line of artisan private label cheeses under its premium Hartford Reserve line. The Hartford Reserve Artisan Cheese Collections will feature new vintage-aged gouda, cranberry chipotle cheddar and a blue cheese with mild white goat's milk called Read More...

Harris Teeter Hosts Store Brand Cooking Contest

Harris Teeter is hosting a store brands holiday video recipe challenge, inviting customers to share their favorite recipes cooked with Harris Teeter store brands. Participants, who must produce a video of themselves making their favorite holiday recipe, can win $2,500 cash or $500 in Harris Teeter Read More...

Store Brands Contain Less Sodium than National Brands

Although 40 percent of U.K. consumers believe lower-cost store brands contain more salt than nationally known brands, a recent study by Consensus Action on Salt & Health reveals otherwise. U.K. store brands have considerably less sodium than consumer packaged goods brands, according to an articl Read More...

Duane Reade Launches DR Delish

The New York based drug chain this week launched its own brand of food and beverages including all-natural and gluten-free trail mixes, cookies, vitamin-enhanced teas, juices, all-natural baked potato crisps, and soy snacks. Duane Reade has rolled out 25 new products under the DR Delish brand, whic Read More...

Food Lion Reintroduces Holly Farms Chicken as Its Exclusive Store Brand

As part of an agreement with Tyson Foods Inc., Food Lion LLC will replace all store brand fresh chicken with Holly Farms premium brand chicken at 1,200 Food Lion, Bloom and Bottom Dollar Food grocery stores throughout the eastern United States. After a 10 year absence from retail grocery stores in Read More...

Profiles in Innovation: A&P's 'Green Way' to Sustainability (Part 3 of 4)

Editor's Note: This is the third in an exclusive four-part series on A&P's revamped store brands' program. Part I, "A&P's Store Brands Transformation," focused on the grocer's overall strategy and plan. Last week's Part II, "A&P's High Hopes for Premium Store Brands," focused on Via Roma Read More...

Profiles in Innovation: A&P's High Hopes for Premium Store Brands (Part 2 of 4)

Editor's Note: This is the second of an exclusive four-part series on A&P's revamped store brand's program. Last week's article, "A&P's Store Brands Transformation," focused on the grocer's overall strategy and plan. Subsequent weekly articles in the series will feature Green Way, A&P's Read More...

Profiles in Innovation: A&P's Store Brands Transformation (Part 1 of 4)

Over the past 18 months, Doug Palmer and his store brands' team seem to have accomplished the impossible  -- they revamped and repositioned The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s (A&P's) entire store brands' portfolio of more than 4,000 items across 435 stores. At the center of the pr Read More...

Store Brands Get a Big Shot in the Arm from Consumer Reports

The coming of age of store brands is resoundingly confirmed in the October issue of Consumer Reports where store brands were found to be equally good -- or better -- than national brands nearly 80 percent of the time. Comparative blind tests were conducted in 29 food categories among various prod Read More...

Wal-Mart Exec Likens Great Value Brand to Coca-Cola, Tide and Cheerios

Wal-Mart is about 75 percent complete with its product reformulation and relaunch of its Great Value store brand, said Andrea Thomas, senior vice president of private label brands for the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant. Speaking at a Bentonville/Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce Champions prese Read More...

Store Brands as Innovator, Not Follower

While the fragmented European market is extremely different from the vast expanse of the United States, Mintel's Lynn Dornblaser believes there is a lot to be learned from European pioneers who are taking store brands to new heights. "What's new in how we talk about private label is referring to pr Read More...

Meijer and Kroger Forecast Double-Digit Store Brand Growth

While the economy has helped drive further gains in store brands, many retailers say their sales have been growing aggressively for the past two to three years because they have been focusing on quality and innovative products, and it doesn't hurt that consumers are getting smarter. In fact, retail Read More...

U.K.’s Waitrose Gets Solid Sales Boost from New ‘Essentials’ Line

Since the launch of its new Essentials line of staple products, British food retailer Waitrose saw sales rise 8.4 percent and attracted 250,000 new shoppers in the past four weeks compared to prior year, according to Nielsen data. Sales per transaction were also up 5 percent. Read More...

Store Brands Decisions Launches to Serve the Information Needs of the Store Brands Market

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 Read More...

Store Brands Drive Differentiation and Profit

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.  Read More...