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December 2009 Articles
December 22, 2009
10 Steps to Maximize Store Brand Growth
Best practices identified by Agentrics all hinge on developing a unified and integrated database and communications system to maximize customer loyalty, sales acceleration and speed to shelf.
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December 22, 2009
Kroger Store Brands Tally Double-Digit Sales Increases
Kroger executives said their store brand success is playing an important role in the company’s overall tonnage growth.
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December 22, 2009
Sainsbury Claims Asda Copied Its Store Brand Slogan
Competitively under fire, Asda is also harnessing Wal-Mart’s buying power on non-foods to help it beat competitors’ prices.
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December 22, 2009
Consumers Abandon Longstanding Iconic Brands
Nine of 12 leading CPG brands have tallied customer loyalty declines of between 2 percent and 9 percent, to the advantage of store brands.
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December 22, 2009
Target Plans to Add 100 More Up & Up Products in 2010
Target’s core store brand is growing and gaining traction among customers, executives told analysts.
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December 22, 2009
P&G to Launch More Value-Tier Versions of Core Brands
By 2011, 75 percent of P&G’s product categories will offer value-–tier versions of core brands, similar to what the company did with Tide Basic.
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December 22, 2009
TreeHouse Agrees to Acquire Sturm Foods
As part of its strategy to grow its private label holdings, TreeHouse has agreed to acquire the private label cereal maker for $600 million.
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December 22, 2009
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.
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December 16, 2009
Study: Retailers to Make GFSI Standards Mandatory for Store Brand Suppliers
Most retailers have definitive GFSI compliance plans for their store brands, but vary widely in their approach, according to the industry’s first food safety study conducted by Store Brands Decisions.
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December 16, 2009
Dollar General Sales Get a Boost from Store Brands
The discounter, which posted a 9.2 percent increase in same-store sales last quarter, now has 1,300 private brand items that account for more than 21 percent of consumable sales.
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December 16, 2009
Retailers and CPG Companies to Focus on Store Brands in 2010
CPG companies overwhelmingly list store brands as the topic that will be most important to their business in 2010, according to a Smart Brief poll, indicating more weighty counter strategies are on the docket.
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December 16, 2009
Office Depot Launches New Store Brand Business Products
The office supply chain introduces a line of “fashionable” business, organizational and travel supplies for women in the workplace.
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December 16, 2009
FMI: Hispanics Are Buying More Store Brands
Thirty-seven percent of Hispanic shoppers are purchasing more store brand products this year and 25 percent plan to buy more in 2010, according to new FMI research.
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December 16, 2009
Will Co-Branded Private Label Catch On?
Two branding pros debunk Phil Lempert’s prediction that next year major food brands will begin developing co-branded store brand foods with retailers.
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December 16, 2009
Price Chopper CEO Says Store Brand Growth Will Continue
In an interview with FMI dailyLead, the supermarket executive said store brands and consumer recession shopping behaviors are likely ingrained.
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December 9, 2009
Nielsen: The Next Store Brand Frontier is Product and Packaging Innovation
Tier expansion, product and packaging innovation and a focus on categories that are not heavily marketed by national brand manufacturers yield the highest returns for retailer store brands.
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December 9, 2009
Wal-Mart CMO: We Are Going to Be a House of Brands
Stephen 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.
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December 9, 2009
Store Brand Infant Formula Supplier Wins Lawsuit Against Mead Johnson & Co.
PMB Products scores a big win against the makers of Enfamil Lipil Infant Formula for false advertising in a direct mail campaign.
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December 9, 2009
Sysco Reemphasizes its Own Brands to Recharge the Business
Indicating that its own-brand sales have slipped recently, Sysco said it is refocusing sales efforts to reinvigorate volume.
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December 9, 2009
Metro Cash & Carry Reveals New Private Label Strategy
The new private label line-up will help the self-serve wholesaler toward its goal of doubling its own brand sales.
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December 9, 2009
PLMA Live! Interviews Tod Marks of Consumer Reports
Tod Marks, senior projects editor of Consumer Reports, discusses the recent taste tests and comparison of store brands against their national brand counterparts conducted by the consumer advocacy organization.
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December 9, 2009
Store Brands Gain Share in Significant Categories
Dramatic growth in store brand baby food, frozen pizza, salad dressings and snacks took a big bite out of national brand unit volume this past year.
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December 2, 2009
A.T. Kearney Forecasts Unprecedented Global Store Brand Growth
In order to tap the true growth potential, all players – retailers, manufacturers and third party partners – must develop new capabilities and strategic focus.
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December 2, 2009
Meijer Launches Specialty Store Brand Foods
The Midwest retailer relaunches the Meijer Gold line with a twist – including unique recipe items with a distinctive story of origin that are either made by a local company or by a family-owned business.
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December 2, 2009
Wal-Mart Recycles Corrugate into Store Brand Pizza Boxes
The retail giant is diverting tons of corrugate from landfills by reusing the material for its take-and-bake pizza program boxes.
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December 2, 2009
Costco Kirkland Brand to Explode Over the Next Two Years
The warehouse club retailer expects to boost its private label penetration by more than 10 points by 2012.
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December 2, 2009
7-Eleven Promotes Executive to Focus Exclusively on Private Label Product Development
The convenience store chain names Tom Gerrity senior product director for private label products as the chain aggressively expands its 7-Select store brand.
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December 2, 2009
CVS and Costco Give Two Major Brands the Boot
Costco rebuffs Coca-Cola and CVS threatens to pull the plug on Energizer next year after a pricing battle and other negotiations went awry.
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December 2, 2009
Debunking the Hispanic Store Brands Myth
While still heavy national brand users, Hispanics are showing signs of wanting more choices, including private label.
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December 2, 2009
Wal-Mart Installs New Store Brand Packaging Design Software
Already utilized in its U.K. subsidiary and select store brand categories here in the U.S., Wal-Mart is expanding use of the technology to accelerate speed to shelf and reduce costly errors.
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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.
Press Releases
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
Source: GFSI
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Announces New Board Chairman
Source: Global Food Safety Initiative
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Industry Resources
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