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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...

Safeway Hosts New Innovation Expo

As part of its strategy to fully manage stores brands in-house and work more closely with industry suppliers, Safeway is hosting its first annual Innovation Expo on June 16. Suppliers are invited to submit concept proposals by April 30 that will be “vetted against trends/platforms to be ident Read More...

Nielsen: The Next Store Brand Frontier is Product and Packaging Innovation

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 Read More...

Wal-Mart Installs New Store Brand Packaging Design Software

In order to improve efficiency of its store brand packaging design and printing processes, Wal-Mart has installed Sun Brand Technologies’ Odin brand management software across its fresh produce, grocery and health and beauty lines, according to a Planet Retail report. The retailer is using th 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...

Retailers on the Tipping Point of a Store Branding Revolution

John Failla, founder of Store Brands Decisions, moderates the packaging  and design roundtable. Store brand design and packaging is growing in importance as many retailers expand beyond national-brand-equivalent products and look toward developing premium products that are be Read More...

Product and Process Innovation Lead the Charge at PLMA Show Opening

More than 4,500 retail and wholesale buyers and supplier executives are expected at PLMA's 2009 Private Label Trade Show in Rosemont, Ill., which opened Sunday and continues through Wednesday. The show kicked off with a series of workshop presentations focused on store brand innovation and culminat Read More...

PLMA Show 2009 Keynote Speakers Focus on Innovation

Responding to retailers' call for innovation and tools to support better store brand management, PLMA has designed an educational program for its Private Label Trade Show that focuses exclusively on store brands innovation.The three-day event, which opens in Chicago Nov. 15, features approximately 2 Read More...

Retailers Seek Innovation Tools to Take Store Brands to New Heights

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 Read More...

Store Brands Reign at KVAT's New Discount Retail Food Format

Flexibility, thought leadership and innovation led executives at KVAT to create a new and unique store format -- Super Dollar Discount Foods -- to better serve the needs of its large and growing low-income customer base. Based in Abingdon, Va., the operator of 94 Food City stores and 11 Super Dolla 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...

Wegman: Price and Quality Challenge National Brands, Creating Premium Store-Brand Opportunity

By their very nature, national brands are trying to meet the needs of the mass market -- the average customer. As a result, national brand quality has declined and suffered further from price pressures from store brands on one front and the likes of Wal-Mart on the other. This is the main dynamic a Read More...