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Canada's Lassonde Industries Acquires Clement Pappas

Lassonde Industries, one of Canada's leading fruit juice and beverage manufacturer, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Clement Pappas and Co. Inc. -- a leading U.S. producer of store brands fruit juices and drinks --  for $390 million in cash.The merger will create a major North Read More...

Duane Reade and Walgreens Rename DR Delish?

After Walgreen’s acquired Duane Reade last year, the “DR” portion of the DR Delish brand was dropped as the drug chain expanded the private label line for sale throughout the Walgreens network.But just recently, Duane Reade posted a new name on the Delish brand –– Good Read More...

H-E-B Expands Private Label Cane Sugar Soda Line

H.E. Butt Grocery Co. expanded its line of private pure cane sugar carbonated soft drinks to include three new flavors – Orange Burst, Wild Red and Old Fashioned Root Beer.H-E-B Pure Cane Sugar Sodas, now available in bottles, were launched a while back with two flavors -- Original Cola and Dr Read More...

Kirkland's Beer Named Top 10 Hottest Product of the Year

ShopSmart, from the publisher of Consumer Reports, named Costco’s Kirkland Signature Handcrafted Lagers and Ales, as the only private label product among the 10 hottest products of 2010.Retailing for $18.99, the variety pack of 24 bottles of handcrafted lagers and ales “is cheap, but it Read More...

Winn-Dixie Bottled Water Sales Benefit Toys for Tots

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. is offering specially wrapped 24-packs of Winn-Dixie brand spring water and purified water to benefit the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program to bring for economically disadvantaged families this holiday season.For every 24-pack of Read More...

7-Eleven Expands it Private Label Wine Offering

Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc. is targeting millennials with its new Cherrywood Cellars private label wine, available in three varietals -- chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and merlot.Priced between $7.99 and $8.99 per bottle, Cherrywood Cellars is one of several proprietary wine brands the convenience st Read More...

Sam's Club Introduces Calle Azul Tequila

Sam’s Club launched its private brand Calle Azul anejo tequila, which is now available in more than 250 locations.Calle Azul, which is 100 percent agave anejo tequila produced by the Rodolfo Gonzalez family of Mexico and imported by The Sazerac Company, is available in a 750 milliliter bottle Read More...

Kum & Go Introduces Private Label Beer

Midwest convenience store chain Kum & Go launched Hiland beer, the newest addition to its private label portfolio.Available in 280 of the chin’s 430 stores in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri, Hiland beer is available in four varieties –– Ice, Light, Lager and Reserve.“Kum &am Read More...

Kmart Launches Smart Sense

Kmart is expanding its private label portfolio with the introduction of the Smart Sense line, which includes a wide range of items from snacks and beverages to oral care, over-the-counter medications and household products.The Smart Sense line is “comparable to that of national name brands, an Read More...

ampm Convenience Stores Introduce New Private Label Brand

BP’s ampm convenience store chain introduced a new line of private label snacks and beverages called Good Stuff.The name of the brand came from the company’s tagline used for many years in its advertising –– “Too Much Good Stuff"The initial launch across the country inc Read More...

Court Proceeds With Part of Private Label Organic Milk Lawsuit

Consumers suing several national retail chains and the largest U.S. provider of private label organic milk claiming the products were falsely labeled, can proceed with a portion of their lawsuit, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling.A lower court will now hear claims that Aurora Organi Read More...

Aldi Drops Milk Prices Under a Buck

Aldi stores lowered its private label Friendly Farm milk prices to 99 cents per gallon, the deepest price cut in a milk price war that has been simmering most of the summer in the Dallas market.The limited assortment retailer announced it will hold prices at 99 cents until early October, and will in Read More...

Winn-Dixie Launches First NFL Co-Branded Bottled Water

Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. and the Jacksonville Jaguars introduced the NFL’s first co-branded bottled water, which sports the team’s logo on a teal label proclaiming it as the “official bottled water of the Jags.”The bottled water will be the only water brand sold at EverBank Fie Read More...

Campbell Soup Tempers Outlook Due to Private Label Competition

Camden, N.J., -based Campbell Soup Co. said it expects earnings to slow over the next 12 months due to lower priced private label soup competition and companies that make other simple meals such as frozen food entrees.Although the company has implemented new promotional spending and introduced new p Read More...

Trader Joe's Private Label World Revealed

With sales of approximately $8 billion, Trader Joe’s, is roughly as large as Fortune 500 companies such as Whole Foods and bigger than Bed Bath & Beyond.But unlike its larger Fortune 500 counterparts, Trade Joe’s typically carries 4,000 SKUs, 80 percent of which are store brands. &ld Read More...

Costco Woos Washington Voters to Sell Liquor in Stores

It should be no surprise that Costco –– whose name private label and national brand liquor sales are flourishing in other locales -- is at the forefront of Initiative 1100, which seeks voter approval for retailers to sell liquor. The Issaquah-based wholesale club spearheaded a signature Read More...

Safeway Expands the Refreshe Store Brands Label

The Refreshe brand, once only used on Safeway’s store branded bottled water, has been redesigned and expanded to include other beverage categories. “Refreshe is currently showing up on your store shelves in a whole new look and with some new company: soft drinks, water and mixers,&rdquo Read More...

Cott Corporation Acquires Cliffstar

Toronto-based Cott Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Cliffstar Corporation, the leading store brands manufacturer of shelf-stable juices, for cash consideration of $500 million.Store Brands Packaging Design Research Report: Learn the 3 key factors fueling the explosion in Read More...

United Supermarkets Expands Store Brand Wines

This past weekend United Supermarkets expanded its store brand wine offering with the addition of three new Market Street wines, including sangria and two table wines. The wines, marketed under the Vineyards of Market Street label, will be sold in the 42 stores that currently sell wines and beer. T Read More...

Stew Leonard's Introduces Store Brands Organic Milk

Stew Leonard’s introduced store brand Organic Whole Milk, Organic 1% Lowfat Milk and Organic Fat Free Milk produced by family-owned Clover Farms Dairy. All certified USDA organic, the new product line will be sold for an introductory price of $2.99 for half-gallons, which is about $1 more exp Read More...

Walmart Exports Its Private Label Wine to Japan

Seiyu, Walmart’s Japanese banner, is now selling two store brand wines imported from Walmart’s Oak Leaf Vineyards in California. Offering red and white wine varieties at its 369 stores nationwide, Seiyu’s store brand wine – priced at $4.19 per bottle – is said to be th 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...

Meijer Stores to Carry Reed's and Virgil's Beverages

Meijer Inc. has agreed to sell Reed’s all natural sodas in all of its 119 supercenter stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based discounter has agreed to carry select varieties of Reed’s and Virgil’s beverages direct through its Read More...

7-Eleven Launches Budget Priced Store Brand Beer

Tired of rising price and volume and margin decreases in the beer category, 7-Eleven is introducing Game Day, a store brand beer to be made by City Brewing of La Crosse, Wis., according to a Fortune report. The new product is a premium beer selling at a budget price, 7-Eleven confirmed, but it decl Read More...

Carrefour and Tetra Pak Use First FSC-Certified Beverage Cartons

Tetra Pak will supply more than 100 million Forest Stewardship Council labeled milk and fruit juice carton packages to Carrefour stores across France this year. The supply agreement is seen as an important milestone in Tetra Pak’s global FSC deployment. In France, the company has set a goal o Read More...

Co-CEO of Clement Pappas Dies

Peter C. Pappas, 66, the president and co-chief executive officer of Clement Pappas & Co., based in Carneys Point, N.J., died at his home March 8 after a long illness. Pappas helped transform his father’s small vegetable cannery into a large juice and beverage company, which has significa Read More...

Tesco Dramatically Expands Store Brand Wines

By increasing its Finest store brand wines to include an additional 23 SKUs, Tesco hopes to double its sales, according to a Planet Retail report. Tesco will be increasing its store brand wines from the current 77 SKUs to more than 100 wines to encourage shoppers to trade up, although the company s Read More...

Sam's Club Adds New Spanish Wine to its Store Brand Line Up

Sam’s Club expands its store brand wine offerings with the introduction of Infinite, a 2008 Spanish red wine that is a traditional Tempranillo variety with a small proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon. Infinite will join several other store brand wines Sam’s Club has incorporated into its l Read More...

Chris Silva Promoted to President, Morningstar Division of Dean Foods

Dean Foods , a leading dairy company in the United States and a global leader in soy products, today announced the promotion of Chris Sliva, 46, to the new position of President, Morningstar effective immediately. Sliva is currently Chief Operating Officer of the Morningstar Division of Dean Foods. Read More...

Store Brand Beverage Sales Climb

The global economic downturn is providing ideal conditions for store brand beverages to thrive, according to Canadean, a beverage industry analyst. Store brand products in the soft drinks sector now account for more than 1 in every 10 litres traded in the global marketplace; if you discount the on- Read More...

Sam's Club Launches Its First Store Brand Spirit With Rue 33

EXCLUSIVE TO STORE BRANDS DECISIONS Sam's Club rolled into the store brand spirits category at full throttle over the holiday introducing Rue 33, a Member's Mark ultra-premium distilled vodka from the Cognac region of France. Available in 241 locations where it is permitted to sell spirits, this Read More...

Convenience Stores Uncork the Potential of Store Brand Wine

Convenience store retailers that sell wine -- such as 7-Eleven, Kum & Go and Martin & Bayley -- are more often looking to store brands to spark category sales, according to a report in Convenience Store News. Most recently 7-Eleven rolled out Yosemite Road, a global wine brand developed wit 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...

Store Branded Beverages a Big Threat to National Soft Drink Makers

Store brands in the total soft drinks sector now account for more than one in every 10 liters traded in the global marketplace, which rises even further if you discount the on-premise sector, where private label use is marginal, according to research from Canadean, a U.K.-based beverage research and Read More...

7-Eleven Releases Its First World Wine Store Brand

In its first foray into global merchandising, 7-Eleven Inc. in the U.S. and Seven-Eleven Japan jointly introduced two proprietary wines – a Chardonnay and a Cabernet Sauvignon – under the Yosemite Road label. The California wines are produced by The Wine Group exclusively for 7-Eleven s Read More...

Reed's Poised for Store Brand Growth

Known for its non-alcoholic Ginger Brews, Reed's Inc. said it is in active discussions with 25 national chains to produce private label products for them. The company recently passed its first Good Manufacturing Practices HACCP audit with a major retailer and is moving forward with private label fo 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...

Fresh & Easy Plans to Introduce a New Store Brand Beer

Next week, Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market expects to launch Steel Kettle Whistle, its second store brand beer, which is described as an American-style lager brewed in Wisconsin. 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...