August 2011 News Center
August 30, 2011
Sam's Club Debuts Simply Delicious Chef Brigade
The warehouse club continues to build store brands, with the most recent innovation featuring celebrity chefs.
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August 30, 2011
Waitrose Brand Duchy Explores Spain
Spanish department store chain El Corte Ingles welcomes Waitrose store brand Duchy Originals and Seriously.
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August 30, 2011
Store Brands Decisions Opens Innovation Awards Nominations
Awards will be presented in four categories -- product development, packaging design, consumer marketing and in-store merchandising.
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August 30, 2011
Michaels' Profit Fueled by Store Brands
The nation’s largest crafts retailer swung to a profit this quarter, thanks to an increased assortment of private label merchandise.
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August 30, 2011
Winn-Dixie Recalls Private Label Milk, Sees Sales Plummet
The Florida grocery chain proactively recalls its store brands chocolate milk that may contain an allergen.
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August 30, 2011
Big Lots Gets Bigger on Private Label
The closeout chain is enjoying higher sales, thanks in part to more consumable store brands.
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August 30, 2011
Walmart: Sustainable Packaging About More Than Size
The company looks at the entire lifecycle of packaging in its sustainable packaging efforts, not just package size, according to Ron Sasine, Walmart's senior director of packaging.
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August 30, 2011
Aldi Grows Store Base and Popularity
Aldi is on track to open 80 to 100 new stores this year, but formats are getting smaller and a new class of shopper is in its sights.
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August 24, 2011
Terry C. Lee to Leave Dollar General
The retailer’s store brands vice president said he has accomplished his objective of building a value-driven and quality portfolio of store brands for Dollar General.
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August 23, 2011
Sam's Club Leads Walmart in Q2 Earnings
The wareh
ouse club and its new private label offerings score big with shoppers, making it the performance highlight in Walmart’s second quarter earnings report.
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August 23, 2011
Walmart Regains Low Price Title
Walmart’s shifts back to EDLP helped it eclipse Target as the low price market basket leader, Kantar survey shows.
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August 23, 2011
H-E-B to Add Two Joe V's Smart Shop Stores
Home state expansion of Joe V's will double the grocer’s store base and bring private label discounts to Houston ‘food deserts’ with Aldi-style stores.
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August 23, 2011
Spar Brings Economy Label to the U.K.
By the end of summer, Spar will expand its private label offering in U.K. stores to include the S Budget, a line previously only sold in foreign markets.
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August 23, 2011
STR Holdings Sells Quality Assurance Group
The sale to Underwriters Laboratories comes as STR plans to focus exclusively on its solar market.
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August 23, 2011
Store Brands Soar and Gain Loyal Customers
Nearly half of all shoppers now choose private label, and one third decide which store to shop in based on how much they like the store’s brands, according to Acosta research.
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August 23, 2011
Shoppers Dissatisfied with Body Care Offerings
Opportunity knocks for store brands to develop better products that meet shopper needs in the under-performing body care category.
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August 16, 2011
Nice! Joins Walgreens' Store Brands Stable
The new value line extends Walgreens’ store brands positioning in the grocery category, replacing the drug chain’s Deerfield brand.
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August 16, 2011
Ralcorp Rebuffs ConAgra's Third Purchase Offer
Despite sweetening the acquisition price from $82 in March to the current $94 a share, Ralcorp continues to reject ConAgra’s overtures.
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August 16, 2011
CVS Unveils Nuance Beauty Line
Salma Hayek is the face of the new store brands line as the chain releases an ambitious new collection.
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August 16, 2011
Online Advertising Set to Soar
Retailers and their store brands should be alert as CPG companies pour big bucks into digital marketing.
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August 16, 2011
Ground Beef Recall Affects Major Grocers' Store Brands
Publix, Winn-Dixie and Kroger among supermarkets voluntarily recalling private label beef in the wake of an E. coli scare.
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August 16, 2011
Kohl's Q2 Performance Fueled By Store Brands
Kohl's department stores are bucking the bad economy with a second quarter sales and earnings increase, due in large part to the success of store brands.
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August 9, 2011
Applied Science: Using Emotional Appeal to Build Brands
Facial coding and eye-tracking are two new tools to evaluate shopper reaction, response and emotional engagement to new products, according to Dan Hill of Sensory Logic.
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August 9, 2011
Ralcorp To Acquire Sara Lee Private Label Refrigerated Dough Business
The $545 million purchase will build on Ralcorp’s store brands business, enhancing cash flow and operational synergies.
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August 9, 2011
Kroger, Aldi, Giant Eagle, HEB Hit Hard by Cargill Ground Turkey Recall
A 36 million-pound salmonella-related turkey recall affects private label retailers, and Michigan and Ohio locations mostly heavily.
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August 9, 2011
Sainsbury's Launches New Portion Control Juice Packaging
Cartons with see-through windows allow simple portion control and showcase the beverage’s freshness
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August 9, 2011
PLMA: Shoppers Can Significantly Cut Grocery Bills Buying Store Brands
Study of summertime basic food and non-food items shows savings as high as 50-plus percent on some items, and an averages of 35 percent
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August 9, 2011
Piggly Wiggly Rolls Out Upscale Foods, Brookshire Revamps Soda Line
Piggly Wiggly’s Newton food Farms line is on store shelves and, and Brookshire has redesigned beverage packaging and added new flavors.
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August 2, 2011
Blending the Best of CPG and Retail to Achieve Store Brands Innovation
Innovation is not about “followership” but leadership, and consistently developing high-quality consumer-centric products, according to Safeway’s Joe Ennen.
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August 2, 2011
Supervalu Exceeds Private Label and Earnings Expectations in Q1
Fueling its store brands forecast of 1 percent sales penetration growth annually for the next three years is the grocer’s new Essential Everyday umbrella brand.
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Grocery Aisle Innovation Key to Retailer and Consumer Cost Savings
Retailers are redesigning the aisle, appealing to environmentally friendly consumers and capitalizing on market trends to make their private label brands more competitive.
Source: Tetra Pak Inc.
How to Develop a Private Label Expression Aligned with Retail Brand Strategy
By creating private label as a marketing tool rather than just a price alternative, retailers gain the opportunity to tell a complete brand story while simultaneously boosting customer loyalty.
Source: CBX
Using the Store Banner to Endorse Private Label Architecture
Although the economic downturn accelerated private label growth in Europe, there was another key driver -- retailers started to brand their stores.
Source: IPLC
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