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Wegman: Price and Quality Challenge National Brands, Creating Premium Store-Brand OpportunityBy 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... |
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Wal-Mart Follows Kroger Lead in Private-LabelRead More... |
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P&G Plans To Test Cheaper Version Of Tide BrandRead More... |
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Meijer and Kroger Forecast Double-Digit Store Brand GrowthWhile 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, retai Read More... |
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Wal-Mart to Sell Marketside Branded Foods at Its Discount StoresRead More... |
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Wal-Mart\'s Great Value Beats Out H-E-B and Randalls in a Store Brands Taste TestRead More... |
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Wal-Mart Exec Likens Great Value Brand to Coca-Cola, Tide and CheeriosWal-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... |
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Sam\'s Club Unveils New Fair Trade Store Brand Coffee From BrazilRead More... |
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Bharti Stores in India Sell Wal-Mart\'s Private Label BrandsRead More... |
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Wal-Mart Revamps Great Value to Give It Post-Recession LegsRead More... |
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Wal-Mart Changes the Store Brands GameRead More... |
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Wal-Mart Uses Social Media to Build Consumer Panel for Great Value BrandWith a keen understanding that consumer insights will help it sharpen its store brand offer and win consumer loyalty, Wal-Mart is developing a Great Value Round Table of shoppers. Wal-Mart created a dedicated web site for its Round Table to recruit Great Value shoppers who will be rewarded with the Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Video Demonstrates Commitment to Sustainable Store BrandsRead More... |
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Walmart Reveals Third Front to Drive Store Brand SalesAs part of an exclusive licensing deal with Garanimals, Walmart launched a new Garanimals line of sturdy and reasonably priced play and learning toys. Featuring age appropriate toys for infants, toddlers and pre-school children, the toys boast many of the same animal characters from the kids appare Read More... |
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Wal-Mart\'s Sustainability Index Central to its Business ModelRead More... |
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Retailers Seek Innovation Tools to Take Store Brands to New HeightsEditor\'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, stra Read More...
Author: Maureen Azzato
Tags: supervalu, store brand strategies, store brand management tools, store brand innovation, retail optimixation inc., private label strategies, private label manufacturers association, mass. label management tools, grocery, private, private label innovation, plma, interbrand, innovation, carrefour, brian sharoff, agentrics, wal-mart, walmart, |
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Walmart Canada Unveils Revamped and Reformulated Great Value BrandWalmart Canada this week introduced the revamped Great Value brand and product reformulations to the market, which were introduced in the U.S. last month. Promoting them as easier to find on store shelves, Walmart Canada\'s 313 stores are touting the improved taste, nutrition, and reduced packaging Read More... |
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Managing the Growth of Store BrandsMost retailers want to increase share of wallet, customer loyalty, and sales and profits of their store brands. But how can they get inside consumers\' head? How do they know when products please or displease them? Brand new research tools through Gfk Custom Research North America and its partner E Read More...
Author: Maureen Azzato
Tags: mass, drug, grocery, supervalu, store brands innovation, store brand shelf optimization, store brand packaging, rite aid, retail optimization inc., private label shelf optimization, private label packaging, private label innovation, logix3, kroger, innovation, gfk custom research north america, emsense, ahold, sysco, wal-mart, walmart, |
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Wal-Mart Edges Out Fry\'s in Tucson Store Brand Pricing SurveyThe Arizona Daily Star surveyed store-brand offerings at major grocery retailers in Tucson last week, and Wal-Mart\'s Great Value was the cheapest for the selected items studied, even when taking loyalty cars into consideration. K-VA-T\'s Food City took second place, when loyalty cards were removed Read More...Tags: wal-mart, store brand pricing, private label pricing, mass, kvat, kroger, grocery, great value, fry's, food city, basha's, safeway, albertsons, walmart, |
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Food Safety: A Store Brand Equity InvestmentWhen it comes to breaches in food safety, the past 18 months have been this country’s worst on record. It started in the summer of 2008 with the Food & Drug Administration’s botched recall and destruction of $40 million of Florida tomatoes believed tainted with Salmonella Saintpaul. Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Downsizes and Recasts its Marketside Web SiteA 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... |
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Wal-Mart and Kroger Recall Select Store Brand Dairy ProductsMorningstar 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... |
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Holiday Price Wars Could Make Consumers Big WinnersMajor retailers are poised for a no-holds-barred price war to win consumer loyalty and their shrinking disposable income earmarked for holiday shopping. Wal-Mart promises “hundreds of millions of dollars in price reductions” on everything from produce and groceries to toys and clothes. Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Offers Suppliers Financing OptionThis month Wal-Mart told more than 1,000 suppliers they could get credit support and payment within 10 to 15 days for goods delivered instead of having to wait the usual 60 to 90 days. Select suppliers were notified about the new \"Supplier Alliance Program,\" in a letter dated Nov. 2, according to Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Installs New Store Brand Packaging Design SoftwareIn 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... |
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Wal-Mart Recycles Corrugate into Store Brand Pizza BoxesWal-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... |
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Store Brands Gain Share in Significant CategoriesStore 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...Tags: nielsen, store brand trends, private label trends, store brand growth, private label growth, private label food, store brand food, walmart, wal-mart, grocery, mass, cliub, drug, private label baby food, store brand baby food, private label frozen food, store brand frozen food, private label non-foods, store brand non-foods, |
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Wal-Mart CMO: We Are Going to Be a House of BrandsStephen Quinn, Wal-Mart CMO, revealed that Wal-Mart will become “a house of brands,” and identified ways in which the discounter intends to solve shoppers’ issues by relentlessly providing value. In this three-minute video taken during the recent ANA Conference in November, Quinn Read More... |
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Sainsbury Claims Asda Copied Its Store Brand SloganIt appears that a store brand tagline coined by Sainsbury in the 1950s is being liberally used by Asda and is appearing in full-page newspaper advertisements in the U.K., according to a report in The [London] Times. Asda is promoting its revamped premium store brands with the slogan, “Good fo Read More...Tags: walmart, wal-mart, store brand taglines, sainsbury, private label taglines, mass, grocery, asda, |
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Wal-Mart to Reduce Supply Chain Costs SystemwideOne of Wal-Mart\'s major strategic initiatives this year is to drive billions of dollars in costs from its supply chain by leveraging the global power of all its divisions and retail brands. The plan calls for combining store purchasing across brands and national boarders, which will increase the p Read More... |
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Store Brands and International Retailer Growth Expected in India in 2010Store brands proliferation and growth of international retail brands are expected to be a big focus in the Indian retail sector in 20101, an industry consultant told the Business Standard (India). Numerous retailers such as Future Group, Spencer’s Retail and Aditya Birla are boosting their pr Read More... |
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Sam\'s Reorganizes Its Merchandising DepartmentSam\'s Club has reorganized its merchandising teams, organization, according to an internal memo circulating in the U.S. trade press, according to a Planet Retail report. The memo distributed by Linda Hefner, Sam\'s executive vice president of merchandising and replenishment, reportedly stated: \"O Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Brings More Store Brands to IndiaSeveral suppliers Wal-Mart uses to sources products for its store brands are seeking entry into the India market, indicating the retailer intends to further grow its store brands business in one of the world\\\'s fastest growing economies, according to a report on LiveMint.com. Bharti-Walmart in In Read More... |
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Supervalu Names New Executive V.P. and CMOMinneapolis-based Supervalu named Julie Dexter Berg executive vice president and chief marketing officer where she will focus on customer and brand strategy, advertising and research and analytics. Berg, 52, has more than twenty years of executive management experience in marketing, product managem Read More...Tags: walmart, wal-mart, supervalu, shop 'n save, shaw's, julie dexter berg, jewel-osco, craig hekert, albertsons, |
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Wal-Mart Melds Merchandising and Operations to Sharpen Customer FocusWal-Mart has created a new merchandising execution department, which will focus more strategically on brand strategy and more powerfully align merchandising and operations. The new organization will be led by Andy Barron, senior vice president of store merchandising execution, will design merchandi Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Creates Global Merchandising Centers to Streamline SourcingWal-Mart Stores Inc. unveiled a new global sourcing strategy –– which includes the creation of Global Merchandising Centers –– that will leverage its global scale to reduce costs of goods, accelerate speed to market and improve the quality of products. The plan also calls fo Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Tests Private Label Spice ProgramAs 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...Tags: mass, grocery, wal-mart, walmart, orivate label food, store brand food, mccormack, great value, |
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Wal-Mart Cuts Food Storage Bag BrandsWal-Mart reportedly banished Glad and Hefty bags from the food-storage category, leaving only one national brand, SC Johnson’s Ziploc, and its own Great Value store brand on the shelves. Industry observers anticipate Wal-Mart will similarly consolidate other categories and reduce product asso Read More... |
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Wal-Mart Switches Store Brand Eggs to Cage-FreeWal-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. \"B Read More... |
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Shearer\'s Buys Wal-Mart\'s Salty Snack SupplierShearer’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... |
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Wal-Mart Relaunches the Marketside Web SiteWal-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... |
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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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Chris Silva Promoted to President, Morningstar Division of Dean Foods
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GFSI Successfully Benchmarks the GlobalG.A.P Aquaculture and Livestock Schemes
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The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Announces New Board Chairman
Source: Global Food Safety Initiative
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