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Fresh & Easy Expands Healthy Store Brands

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is expanding its eatwell and Goodness private label lines as shoppers look for products to help keep those New Year’s resolutions.Fresh & Easy introduced eatwell in 2010 for customers seeking a nutritionally balanced approach to eating without compromis Read More...

Wegmans Adds Organic Shrimp

Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans is expanding organic options to its store brands seafood selection with the addition of Wegmans Organic Farmed Shrimp.“The positive reaction of our customers to the Irish Organic Salmon, certified by the European Union, made us eager to have other organic offering Read More...

Ikea to Convert All Food to Private Label

Ikea, the Scandinavian chain known for inexpensive home goods and furniture, is ready to put its name and blue and yellow label on the packaged Swedish foods sold in its stores, doing away with all national brands.In addition to its home furnishings products, Ikea sells roughly 150 SKUS of tradition Read More...

Loblaw Looks to Reality TV for Store Brands Innovation

Loblaw is making an appearance on reality television, but not as a sponsor. The Canadian retailer is the host of a new show where contestants compete for the chance to create a new President’s Choice product.“Recipes to Riches” debuted on the Food Network Canada Oct. 19. The show w Read More...

Wegmans Gets On Trend With Greek Yogurt

Greek yogurt is enjoying a moment in the spotlight and now Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans is introducing six varieties under the “Food You Feel Good About” brand.“We’ve been working a couple of years on creating an authentic Greek yogurt,” said Wegmans Category Merchant Read More...

Sainsbury's Launches Private Label Mexican Food Line

Sainsbury’s is taking a page from North American retailers and launching a line of refrigerated Mexican food, claiming it is the first in the U.K. to do so under a store brand."As the trend for Mexican restaurants and food trucks is on the rise, we're proud to have developed a range of dishes Read More...

Sam's Club Debuts Simply Delicious Chef Brigade

Sam's Club is partnering with eight celebrity chefs from different regions of the U.S. to provide meal solutions for busy shoppers. Each chef will create a different meal each month under the banner “Sam's Club Simply Delicious Chef Brigade.”The Chef Brigade will create meal solutions fo Read More...

Waitrose Brand Duchy Explores Spain

Spain’s largest retailer El Corte Ingles will soon sell store brands from U.K.-based Waitrose supermarkets, adding 35 SKUs to 50 stores by the end of this year. The expansion marks the first time Waitrose has sold its brands in a premier European chain.El Corte Ingles is an iconic chain in Spa Read More...

Big Lots Gets Bigger on Private Label

Big Lots is on a tear, watching sales and margin rise as store brands become more of a central focus in stores. The closeout chain began expanding private label in the critical consumables category to offer a regular assortment of value-priced items in addition to unique deep-discounts lots of merch Read More...

Baker's Pride Expands into Better-for-You Categories

Burlington, Iowa -- Baker’s Pride Inc., a commercial bakery and manufacturer of private label and proprietary brand bread and cake style donut products, today announced its entry into the “better for you” category with new products and expanded manufacturing capabilities to service Read More...

Sam's Club Leads Walmart in Q2 Earnings

Gone are the days of Sam’s Club being the problem child within Walmart’s family of stores. The warehouse club led the company in sales and earnings for the second quarter, fueled by its store brands.Walmart’s U.S. stores saw sales grow just 0.4 percent for the three months ended Ju Read More...

Nice! Joins Walgreens' Store Brands Stable

Walgreens continues its store brand expansion with the launch of Nice!, a national brand equivalent line of grocery items now available in stores, a Walgreens’ spokeswoman confirmed, noting the new brand and an official announcement will follow later this week.The Nice! rollout includes canned Read More...

Kroger Expands Private Selection Brand Renovation

Kroger is expanding the renovation and relaunch of its premium Private Selection brand, which began last fall with the ice cream category.The Cincinnati-based grocer recently reintroduced frozen pizza and lasagna and artisan bread, as well as fresh meats and seafood. In addition to packaging and bra Read More...

Steviva Brands Opens Doors to Private Label

Steviva Brands is now offers a range of services that allow retailers to offer private label options of its natural low-calorie sweetener.Steviva Brands’ operations are Kosher Certified, GMP-certified, gluten free, petro-chemical free and licensed by the Oregon Department of Agriculture, the c Read More...

Waitrose Launches Healthy Store Brand

U.K. supermarket chain Waitrose is rolling out Waitrose Love Life, a line of “ nutritionally balanced foods,” which will hit store shelves by the end of the month.This marks the retailers largest private label launch since Essential Waitrose was introduced, and includes 270 products. The Read More...

Sam's Club Rolls Out Three New Private Label Brands

Sam's Club is rolling out three new store brands to attract more customers to its expanded grocery and food offerings.The warehouse club, owned by Walmart, is launching deli and bakery line Artisan Fresh; Simply Right, which includes health and beauty care products as well as pet care and baby care; Read More...

Private Label and CPG Sauces and Marinade Sales Expected to Rise More

The recession has sent many Americans back into the kitchen to rediscover cooking and home food preparation, giving new life to the sauces and marinades segment -- for both private label and CPG brands, according to Mintel research.The cooking sauces and marinades category gained 20 percent in U.S. Read More...

Sainsbury's Revamps Entire Private Label Line

Sainsbury's is rebranding its core private label products under the new 'by Sainsbury's' banner.The revamp, which includes more than 6,500 products, began with frozen foods just before Christmas 2010 and will be completed by January 2013. Of the 6,500 products 65 percent will be either new or improv 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...

Correlation Found Between Recognizable PL Brands and Consumer Satisfaction

Consumers prefer certain private-label products over others, and some don’t even know they are purchasing private label brands, according to a new study by Market Force Information.The panel research study, conducted in March with 6,100 participants, was designed to uncover which private label Read More...

Aldi Slips into Cities Where Walmart, Target Raise Local Ire

Many retailers – including retail giants Walmart and Target – plan to open smaller-format stores in urban markets, but in some areas local residents, union and regulators are slowing things down.Not so for small-format private-label German retailer Aldi, which has been opening stores in Read More...

Marfood USA-Marfrig Group names new Managing Director for North American Headquarters

Taylor, Mich. -- Marfood USA, the North American headquarters for Marfrig Group announced today that Paul Fox has been appointed Managing Director, effective immediately. Paul Fox succeeds Alain Martinet who is returning to Marfrig Group in the company’s Sao Paulo, Brazil World Headquarters, w Read More...

Raley's Roles Out Private Label All-Natural Chicken

Raley’s grocery stores introduced its new all-natural private label chicken, including boneless and skinless breasts as well as other cuts.Normally retailing for $3.97 a pound, the skinless and boneless Raley’s all-natural chicken retailed for $1.97 for six days following the role out la Read More...

Walmart and Safeway Expand Sustainable Seafood Policies

Walmart Stores Inc. and its Sam's Club subsidiary, as well as Safeway, recently announced expansion of their seafood sustainability policies.Walmart now requires that all of its wild and farmed seafood will be sourced from a third-party certified by the Marine Stewardship Council or the Global Aquac Read More...

Safeway Quietly Expands Open Nature Private Label Line

In January Safeway debuted its new Open Nature line of private label products, beginning with the meat category, with the promise of other categories to come.In recent store visits, Store Brands Decisions observed several category additions to the 100-percent natural Open Nature line, including dair Read More...

Delhaize Unveils New Store Brand, Adjusts Food Lion Strategy

Delhaize introduced its new ‘My Essentials’ store brand and announced a revised strategy for Food Lion, the banner hit hardest by the economic downturn, during the company’s fourth quarter conference call with analysts.‘My Essentials,’ which launched this week at the co Read More...

CVS Unveils Just the Basics Store Brand

CVS/pharmacy has launched Just the Basics, a new line of store brands household essentials with nearly 100 items across numerous categories including household, beauty, baby, personal care, grocery and beverages."We know our customers want the option to save where they can so they can spend where th Read More...

Loblaw Introduces Store Brands Greek Yogurt

Jumping on the popularity of Greek yogurt, Loblaw has rolled out President’s Choice Greek Yogurt, yogurt smoothies and yogurt drinks.PC Greek Yogurt, which is fat free with two times the protein of our regular yogurt, comes in plan, Strawberry and Peach and Passion Fruit flavors."PC Greek Yogu Read More...

Fresh & Easy Launches Gourmet Meals

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market launched a new line of restaurant quality fresh and frozen meals called Gourmet.Created by Fresh & Easy’s team of chefs, “Gourmet gives customers a fine-dining experience with all the comforts of home,” the company said in a statement.&ldquo Read More...

Technomic: Retailer Prepared Food Programs Gain Ground on Restaurants

Consumers are sourcing prepared meals from a wider range of retailer’s foodservice operations than they were two years ago, most often at the expense of restaurants, according to Technomic research.Importantly, traditional supermarkets, convenience stores and mass merchandisers have been able Read More...

Daymon Worldwide to Provide Thought Leadership at ECRM's Private Brand Food and Meal Solutions EPPS

Cleveland --Daymon Worldwide, the world's leading Private Brands and Consumer Events expert, will provide thought leadership on several topics at ECRM’s Private Brand Foods and Meal Solutions EPPS® events, taking place in Dallas, Texas, the week of April 10, 2011. The Private Brands Food Read More...

Hy-Vee Rolls Out Artisan Breads

Hy-Vee unveiled it store brands Baking Stone Breads, which are hand-crafted and baked fresh in the grocer’s in-store bakeries.Promoted on the home page of the web site, Hy-Vee noted its “experienced team of veteran bakers takes pride in producing our new line of artisan-style breads. Eac Read More...

Wegmans Introduces Store Brands Whole Grains and Unique Blends

In partnership with Minnesota-based Indian Harvest, Wegmans introduced six new store brands whole grains and blends, the company announced on one of its blogs.Varieties include Red Quinoa, Kansas Medley (a wild rice blend); Golden Jewel (with Israeli couscous); Jasmine Blend (aromatic white rice); W Read More...

Sainsbury's Premium Store Brands Contribute to Third Quarter Sales Rise

Sainsbury’s third quarter same-store sales rose 3.6 percent, which the U.K. grocer attributed primarily to aggressive merchandising of its premium private label brands during the holidays.Sainsbury’s outperformed all its U.K. rivals, according to an analyst quoted in a Bloomberg report. Read More...

Winn-Dixie Gives Space Coast Family an Extreme Grocery Gift

The Hurston family received a gift of one year’s worth of groceries from Winn-Dixie at the conclusion of a weeklong build of the family’s new home as part of the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” in Coco, Fla.The gift was presented to Joe and Cindy Hurston (at right in the pho Read More...

Save-A-Lot Expansion On Track Despite Parent Company's Tough Quarter

Supervalu’s same-store sales in the third quarter came in at negative 4.9 percent, considerably under plan, but despite challenges in its core grocery sector, CEO Craig Herkert identified one bright spot –– Save-A-Lot’s performance and expansion.Craig Herkert“We’v Read More...

Safeway Adds Open Nature Line to Private Label Offering

Open Nature, a new 100-percent natural private label line from Safeway, is hitting stores shelves, as are the company’s new varieties of Signature Café prepared meals.While Open Nature is expected to span numerous in-store categories, the first products rolled out are in the meat depart Read More...

Fresh & Easy Expands eatwell Private Label Line

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is expanding its private label eatwell product line, which contain no more than 25 percent of daily calories, fat, saturated fat and sodium.Eleven new fresh food and grocery SKUs, ranging in price form $2.49 to $3.99, are hitting stores this month, including Stea Read More...

Family Dollar to Focus on Store Brands Growth in 2011

To help it accelerate private label execution and growth Family Dollar has hired a sales and marketing company with store brands expertise, the CEO said during a recent earnings call.Acknowledging that store brands are now an important strategic pillar, Chairman and CEO Howard Levine said the compan Read More...

Publix Introduces Private Label Specialty Cheeses

Publix has introduced a new line of domestic and imported private label specialty cheeses, offering nine varieties with six additional types debuting later this month and February.“Our customers have told us that they are interested in exploring new cheeses with unique taste and flavors,&rdquo Read More...

Wegmans Debuts Store Brands FOB Yogurt

Adding to its Organic Blended Super Yogurt private label line introduced in 2009, Wegmans unveiled Organic Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt.Mary Ellen BurrisThe new product is 100 percent vegetarian, addressing “concerns of some customers about the Blended Super Yogurt,” Mary Ellen Burris, Weg Read More...

Whole Foods Unveils Health Starts Here Private Label Line and Program

Whole Foods Markets introduced Health Starts Here, a program intended to promote vitality and wellness, which includes assorted private label products, in-store programs, and web-based tools and resources.New Health Starts Here products include prepared foods, bakery items and frozen vegetables. The Read More...

Whole Foods Recalls Dozens of Store Brands Bakery Goods

Whole Foods Market has recalled 61 private label bakery products sold in seven Midwest states that were manufactured by Rolf’s Patisserie, due to a possible health risk.Products produced by Rolf’s Patisserie of Lincolnwood, Ill., have been connected to several outbreaks of Staphylococcus Read More...

Private Label Produce Gains Ground

Private label produce accounted for a totaled of $2.8 billion, up 13 percent compared to a year ago and expectations are for the category to continue to grow in 2011, according to the United Fresh Foundation. On average, grocers in 2010 offered 37 SKUs of private label vegetables, up 23 percent comp Read More...

Walmart Rolls Out New Marketside Offerings

Walmart has launched several new products under its Marketside prepared foods private label line, including fresh pasta and sauces, assorted dips as well as new soup and artisan bread varieties.A new line of refrigerated pastas that cook in three minutes include Mushroom and Cheese Half-Moons, Grill Read More...

Safeway Adds New Signature Cafe Salsas and Dips

Safeway launched five new salsa flavors and three varieties of dips under its Signature Café brand, just weeks after it introduced it Snack Artist line of chips.New salsa flavors include Salsa Fresca, a traditional Mexican recipe of tomatoes, onions, peppers and cilantro available in mild, me Read More...

Topco Veteran Dan Mazur to Retire

After 39 years of service with Topco, Dan Mazur, senior vice president –center store management, plans to retire at the end of March.Steven LauerMazur joined Topco in 1972 as a buyer and advanced rapidly through the ranks, holding such positions as product manager, manager of grocery, director Read More...

TreeHouse Foods' Ambitious Private Label Pursuits

By Maureen AzzatoAn exclusive to Store Brands DecisionsThrough serial acquisition, TreeHouse Foods has grown to a $1.8 billion in five years. In 2005, five former Keebler executives founded the company with the original intent of acquiring consumer packaged goods companies. Since those early days, T Read More...

Price Chopper Introduces Decadent Desserts

Price Chopper launch a brand new Decadent Desserts under the Central Market Classics line, which was inspired and developed by its professional team of cake decorators, according to the company web site.Described as “our world class bakery offer of sinfully delicious desserts,” Price Cho Read More...

Tesco to Unveil Additional Ethnic Food Lines

Due to the increasingly multi-cultural population that is demanding world flavors, Tesco plans to introduce seven new ethnic food lines.urkish, Sri Lankan, Latin, Filipino and African foods will first be tested in London stores, according to a Planet Retail report.The U.K. retailer’s Afro-Cari Read More...

Hannaford's Private Brands Help Feed the Hungry

A new twist on the age-old buy-one-get-one-free supermarket promotion, Hannaford launched a Buy 1 Give 1 store brand product to engage customers to help feed the hungry.Kicked off this week, the program flags key private label items in the store each week thorough December, and for each eligible ite Read More...

Safeway Launches New Private Label Snack Line

Safeway’s brand new private label salty snack line, called The Snack Artist, hit store shelves this week and features natural-style resealable bags.The line includes traditional potato chips, cheese curls, tortilla chips and crunchy Kettle-style choices in a variety of cleverly named flavors s Read More...

Store Brands Are Retailers' Second-Most Important Point of Difference

Expansion of store brands is a key way retailers are creating marketable differentiation, ranking second only to product freshness, according to the 2010 Food Retailing Industry Speaks: Annual State of the Industry Review by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI).Supermarket sales grew a meager 0.12 per Read More...

Store Brands Bolster Target's Popularity

Approximately 20 percent of Target’s overall sales are derived from private label, with food product sales and the number of grocery SKUs on the rise."We've grown our own brand foods faster than our total food growth over the past five years, as we've continued to expand our product offerings Read More...

Ampm Adds Candy and Hispanic Snacks to Its Private Label Line

BP’s ampm chain added nine candy products and thee Hispanic snacks to the Good Stuff private label snack line launched in the spring.Item additions included candy corn, jellied candies and jelly beans as well as "El Mero" snacks targeted to Hispanics that include chili mango fruit snacks, garb Read More...

Raley's Comes on Strong With Store Brands Meals Program

West Coast grocer Raley’s introduced more than 20 entrees and side dishes under its new fresh-to-go ready-to-heat meals, available in single serve and family sizes, branded Raley’s To Go.Merchandised in deli cases, the pre-packaged refrigerated meals are ready to eat in under three minut Read More...

TreeHouse Completes S.T. Specialty Foods Acquisition

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. completed the previously announced acquisition of S.T. Specialty Foods for $180 million, plus up to an additional $15 million if the company achieves certain earnings targets for the year.Headquartered in Brooklyn Park, Minn., S.T. Specialty Foods Inc. produces private label ma Read More...

A&P Introduces The Food Emporium Trading Company Label

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co unveiled an exclusive new collection of international specialties under The Food Emporium Trading Company brand, named after the company’s gourmet retail chain in New York.“From the markets of Marrakech to the olive groves of Italy, from the best baker Read More...

Top Retailers Rebuked for BPA Use in Private Label Products

Walmart, Kroger, Supervalu and Safeway received failing grades for lagging behind in their work to eliminate the use of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in their private label food and beverage can linings, while Whole Foods and Costco skinned by with barely passing grades, according to a new study.Wa Read More...

Find What's New for Store Brands at the PLMA Trade Show

Ethnic foods and flavors, natural and organic ingredients in food and personal care items, health and wellness concerns, and new packaging design and innovations are just a few of the trends fueling a profusion of private label new product development these days.Retailers are offering spiced-up sele Read More...

Kroger Relaunches Its Private Selection Brand

Beginning with the premium ice cream category, Kroger unveiled its new Private Selection packaging design and brand positioning, targeting upscale consumers and food enthusiasts.The new ice cream product and packaging was reintroduced in mid-October, with other Private Selection categories to come s Read More...

Fresh & Easy Launches Offbeat Private Label Snack and Cooking Sauces

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is introducing a crunchy plantain snacks in its stores to appeal to various Latino groups who consider the plantain a staple in their diets.As an alternative to potato chips, Deliciously Crunchy Plantain Crisps contain only plantains, sunflower oil and salt, and, Read More...

Spartan Stores Plans Private Label Expansion

Spartan Stores plans to introduce more than 200 new private label products under its new Fresh Selection brand before the end of the year.'We plan to further enhance our consumer value offering by introducing more than 200 new private brand products during the second half of the fiscal year with app Read More...

Kroger and Walmart Store Brands Affected by Frozen Vegetable Recall

Private label frozen vegetable blends containing peas at both Kroger and Walmart stores are being pulled from store shelves due to a voluntary recall instigated by manufacturer Pictsweet Co., due to the possibility of the products containing glass fragments.The recall affects certain codes of Walmar Read More...

Sourcing Authentic Italian Private Label is Getting Easier

Without question, U.S. consumers are in love with Italian food. In fact, most are willing to pay more for authentic Italian products made in Italy.Then why is it that most U.S. grocery stores have not yet capitalized on this important and growing customer base with private label offerings? Why are t Read More...

Cargill Ground Beef Promotion Aims to “Soup Up” Private Label Sales for Retailers

Witchita, Kan. – Cargill’s fall 2010 retail ground beef promotion, which runs from Oct. 11 to Nov. 19, highlights and complements an important trend for both consumers and grocery retailers: private label products. The Souped-Up Suppers promotion pairs Cargill’s ground beef with re Read More...

Kmart's CMO is High on Private Label and Social Media

Kmart is kicking up its private label offering and social media “value” marketing just in time for the holidays, according to the mass merchandiser’s chief marketing officer Mark Snyder.Kmart is tapping into the consumer’s need to remain frugal but still be able to enjoy the Read More...

Walgreen Rolls out More Delish Upscale Private Label Chainwide

In late June, Walgreen announced it would rollout the Duane Reade DR Delish brand chainwide, but it was unclear at the time if it planned to drop the “DR” part of the label.In August is appeared it would be keeping the entire label branding when it rolled out DR Delish snacks and beverag 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...

Fresh & Easy Expands Private Label Line for Kids

El Segundo, Calif.-based Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has an eye toward expanding it Goodness store brand line targeted to children.Based on positive customer feedback, the 168-store grocer is reviewing which of its current store brands can be adapted to kid-friendly sizes and packaging, acc Read More...

More than 600 New Private Label Products at Kroger This Year

Kroger attributes a good portion of its sales and earnings momentum to its private label program success and increased loyalty among their best and most frequent shoppers, executive told securities analysts during an earnings call to review second quarter results.The grocer introduced more than 600 Read More...

Walmart Shifts Private Label Strategy

Since Walmart’s leadership team shake-up mid-summer, many industry players questioned the future of the company’s Great Value brand, which went unmentioned in the restructuring after more than a year of hype around the private label relaunch.Bill SimonBut at a recent Goldman Sachs confer Read More...

Private Label Frozen Fudge Bars Beat Out Fudgsicle Brand

Jewel-Osco and Walmart win on taste and value, while Aldi’s fudge pops don’t hold up to the national brand, according to a recent taste test.Wallet Pop’s Store Brand Scorecard sampled the classic Fudgsicle brand, as well as three store brand counterparts to see which frozen fudge p 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...

Rite Aid Tests Co-Branded Stores with Private Label Retailer Save-A-Lot

Rite Aid signed a licensing agreement with Save-A-Lot to co-brand 10 existing drug stores in the Greenville, S.C. market to include the discounter's limited assortment grocery and private label lines.Camp Hill, Pa.-based Rite Aid will continue to own and operate the locations, and offer health and b Read More...

Wegmans to Launch Private Label Super Pasta Brand

Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans has formulated a healthier pasta packed with whole grains, extra protein and fiber, omega 3-s and other vitamins.In addition to the nutritional value, Wegmans claims it has created a great-tasting better-for-you comfort food. In the package, Super Pasta is a light brown Read More...

Loblaw Expands Peanut-Free Private Label

With a particular focus on children with peanut allergies, Loblaw has expanded its line of store brand peanut-free products –– including cookies, crackers, granola bars and other sweet and savory snacks –– under the President’s Choice and No Name brands.The 1,000-store 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...

Migros Launches Premium Private Label

Swiss retailer Migros launched a new high quality line called Migros Premium, which by the end of the year will have 90 SKUs. There are currently 20 SKUs on store shelves, including mostly fresh food and meal solutions, and will ultimately includes 350 items, according to a company statement. New Read More...

Tesco and Sainsbury's Expand Private Label Beverages

As competing retailers tighten their product assortments and new product development, Tesco and Sainsbury are successfully expanding their private label beverage lines. Tesco and Sainsbury’s have grown their store brands businesses and portfolios during the recession, with a recent focus on b Read More...

Ralcorp Completes American Italian Pasta Acquisition

Ralcorp Holdings completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of American Italian Pasta Co., which now makes the Kansas City-based pasta company is a wholly-owned subsidiary. St. Louis-based Ralcorp announced its plans to acquire AIPC June 21, offering $450 million in notes in an underwritten public offe Read More...

Whole Foods Redesigns Its Store Brands Prepared Food Packaging

Gone are the days of offering customers different types of foodservice packaging at different Whole Foods Markets across the country. Under the leadership of branding and advertising agency Duffy & Partners, the retailer is unveiling a unified package design for its bakery products, soups, and Read More...

Publix Debuts Kids' Meals

At the end of the month Publix Deli will offer five proprietary fresh, ready-to-eat kids’ meals –– including an entrée, two sides and a drink –– for $3.99. The deli worked with Publix’s in-house registered dietician to ensure each meal was balanced, wholes Read More...

New Store Brands Debut from International Retailers

Canadian grocer Sobeys launched a line of chilled ready-to-eat foods, Morrisons of the U.K, a healthy-eating line, while Casino of France rolls out a specialty coffee capsule and Denmark’s SuperGros focuses on an organic and eco-friendly line. Sobey’s food line, marketed under the Gourm Read More...

Rite Aid Introduces Simplify

Rite Aid is rolling out Simplify, its new “price fighter” store brand, as part of the drug chain’s plan to revamp its entire store brands program with a new look, new brands and additional offerings. Simplify products currently available in stores include two-ply paper towels and Read More...

Walgreens Confirms Chilled Foods Test this Fall

This fall, Walgreen Co. will begin testing chilled foods –– including sandwiches, wraps, fresh fruit cups, soups and salads –– at approximately a dozen stores. Walgreens spokesperson Tiffani Washington confirmed the test to the Wall Street Journal, noting the food initiativ Read More...

Ralcorp Buys Three Bakery Companies

Kevin Hunt Less than a week after making a $1.2 billion acquisition of American Italian Pasta Company, Ralcorp Holdings announced three other acquisition –– North American Baking, JT Bakeries and Sepp's Gourmet Foods. North American Baking, formerly known as PL Foods, Read More...

Walgreens to Sell DR Delish Chainwide

Beginning in August, Walgreens said it plans to introduce a selection of Duane Reade’s DR Delish store brands to its stores chainwide. After acquiring Duane Reade earlier this year, Walgreens’ CEO Greg Wasson said the company was impressed with the success of the DR Delish line. The ann Read More...

Walmart's and Great Kitchens' BBQ Pizzas Recalled

Great Kitchens Inc., a private label manufacturer and maker of Walmart’s Marketside pizzas, issued a recall for nearly 110,000 pounds of BBQ chicken pizza product sold mostly at Walmart stores. The affected products were produced by the Romeoville, Ill.-based company on June 15 and 16. Great Read More...

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...

BJ's Rolls Out High-End Store Branded Baked Goods

BJ’s Wholesale Club launched Wellsley Farms brand pastries inspired by European artisans-style products such as breads, croissants, Danishes, muffins and other pastries. The new line, featuring enhanced ingredients and old world baking processes, is baked throughout the day at BJ’s 189 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...

Kroger's New and Remodeled Units Offer Expanded Prepared Foods

A part of its $100 million expansion and renovation project, Kroger stores will feature upgraded ready-to-eat food areas that will offer many store brands menu items positioned to compete with restaurants. “It is something we consider at all of our store investments and remodels,” spoke Read More...

Winn-Dixie Introduces Store Brand Yogurt Line

Entering the competitive yogurt category, Winn-Dixie Stores introduced a line of all-natural organic yogurts that include probiotics and prebiotics that support digestion. Winn-Dixie Organic Active Yogurt, which has no artificial preservatives or flavors, is USDA-Certified Organic and Kosher-Certif Read More...

Gluten-Free Store Brand Products on the Rise

Since 2004, sales of gluten-free products have increased 74 percent, and more store brands are touting the gluten-free benefits of their products. In response to the rising number of  U.S. consumer swho suffer from Celiac Disease, more than 62 percent of store brands claim to be gluten-free, t Read More...

Leaders in European Premium Private Label Chocolate Expand to North America

Farm-to-bar producer of award-winning natural chocolate for leading European retailers, ICAM S.p.A. is expanding its private label chocolate manufacturing program to North America. The new North American sales office operating under the brand Agostoni Chocolate, will be located in Los Angeles where Read More...

Wegmans Features Manufacturer's Name on New Store Brand Cookies

Sailing into new store brands waters, Wegmans has added the name of family-owned Gottlieber Spezialitäten AG to the label of its new Swiss Crepes cookies to communicate their quality and authenticity. Calling out the manufacturer’s name on the label “allows us to call attention to Read More...

Aldi Embraces Flexible Packaging for Store Brand Frozen Entrees

Aldi's new Bremer Select store brand entrees are using a combination of flexible packaging and a thermal processing technique that reportedly delivers restaurant quality results. Previously available to cook frozen vegetables, the packaging and cooking technology is now expanding into foods that fe Read More...

FDA Considers Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking comments and research about the usefulness of front-of-package nutrition labeling, which it believes might enhance consumer access to information. The FDA said it is looking for research that assesses and compares the effectiveness of various front-of-pac Read More...

CVS to Test Expanded Grocery and Store Brand Prepared Foods

CVS Caremark Corp. is expanding its grocery section and adding prepared fresh salads and sandwiches at urban stores to bolster non-pharmacy sales and keep pace with competitors. "We have a select group of stores currently reconfigured where we are tailoring our assortment to how the consumer shops Read More...

Wegmans Unveils Irradiated Specialty Burgers and Sliders

Wegmans is offering customers a new twist on its store brand specialty burgers and sliders this grilling season –– fresh ground beef that has been irradiated for extra food safety so customers can enjoy their burgers at their favorite temperature. “You can cook it the way you like Read More...

Sanfilippo Profits Rise as Company Contemplates Acquisitions

John B. Sanfilippo & Son, the country’s largest private label nut manufacturer, posted significant earnings increases and indicated it is eying some potential acquisitions for next year. For the first nine months of the year, Sanfilippo earned $11.7 million, up form $3 million in the same Read More...

Wegmans Takes a Stand on Products Containing BPA

Mary Ellen Burris Responding to customer concerns about the health and environmental concerns over Bisphenol A (BPA), Mary Ellen Burris, Wegmans’ senior vice president of consumer affairs, issue an update on the grocer’s position on her weekly blog. BPA, a controversi Read More...

Hannaford Removes Trans Fats From Store Brand Products

Hannaford, a Delhaize grocery chain, modified recipes for 295 store brand items to remove artery-clogging trans fats from its entire store brand food line, according to a report in MPBN News. "Our shoppers want choices that help them save money and eat better, and the Hannaford brand can help on bo Read More...

ConAgra Acquires Elan Nutrition from Sun Capital Partners

ConAgra Foods acquired Elan Nutrition, a privately held manufacturer of snack and nutrition bars, which will be integrated into the company’s store brands business. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Con Agra’s store brands unit primarily makes cereal and snack bars. Read More...

Fresh & Easy Launches New Healthy Prepared Food Line

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market launched EatWell, a new line of 17 healthy, ready-to-eat prepared meals and sides “to help customers manage their diets without compromising on taste.” Made fresh in the company’s Riverside, Calif.-kitchen, products include entrees, salads and Read More...

Italian Trade Missions Showcase Authentic Italian Products Opportunity

The Italian Trade Commission (ITC) is sponsoring multiple trade missions to Italy over the next few months, with the first one slated for Bari on April 18. Participants in the April event –– Kehe Distributors, Tree of Life, Daymon Worldwide, Isola Imports and Glazer's Distributors &ndas Read More...

TreeHouse Plans Another Store Brand Acquisition

TreeHouse Foods CEO Sam Reed said he expects store branded food sales to continue to grow and hopes to make another store brand manufacturer acquisition by the middle of next year, according to a Dow Jones Newswire report. Reed explained that Treehouse –– whose business is focused on st Read More...

Perrigo Acquires Baby Food Maker PBM

Healthcare giant Perrigo Co, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire private-label infant formula and baby foods manufacturer, PBM Holdings Inc., for $808 million in cash. PBM makes private label baby food for retail giants such as Wal-Mart, Kroger and Target. “This acquisition position Read More...

Waitrose Targets Desk Jockeys with New Lunchtime Store Brands Line

U.K’s Waitrose has introduced 90 new store brand products geared to inspire grab-and-go lunchtime eaters who are often forced to eat and work at their desks. Targeting what it calls “al desko” diners, Waitrose is expanding its sandwich and salad line to include open-faced sandwich Read More...

Store Brand Nut Manufacturer Implements New Forecasting Software

John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), maker of Fisher Nuts and one of America’s largest store brand snack nut manufacturers, is implementing Demand Foresight’s best-of-breed demand planning and supply chain management software. Based in Illinois, JBSS has five processing facilities natio Read More...

Publix Recalls Store Brand Seasonings and Mixes

Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix Super Markets issued a voluntary recall of four varieties of its store brand seasoning mixes over concerns the packages could be contaminated with salmonella. Manufactured with HVP (hydrolyzed vegetable protein) supplied by Basic Food Flavors of Las Vegas, the company sa Read More...

Wal-Mart Relaunches the Marketside Web Site

Wal-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...

Shearer's Buys Wal-Mart's Salty Snack Supplier

Shearer’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...

Carrefour Partners With Disney on Store Brand Food Line

In partnership with Walt Disney Company, Carrefour launched a new store brand food line for children with a strong commitment to nutrition that includes approximately 50 products Called Carrefour Kids, the line features Disney characters and includes cereal, pasta, stewed fruit, cream cheese, tarts Read More...

Trader Joe's Recalls Store Brand Granola Bars

This week Trader Joe’s expanded its earlier lot-specific recall of its store brand chocolate chip granola bars due to possible salmonella contamination. On its web site, Trader Joe’s wrote to its customers: “We have been alerted by our supplier … that there is a possibility Read More...

Wal-Mart Switches Store Brand Eggs to Cage-Free

Wal-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. "By Read More...

Nutrition Claims on Store Brand Products Rise

As shoppers seek healthier food alternatives, retailers are developing more store brand products that carrying health claims such as genetically modified organism (GMO) free, gluten free and the absence of certain fats, according to an article written by Nielsen’s Tom Pirovano. “Store b Read More...

PBM Products Hires Former Hershey Executive

PBM Products LLC, which supplies store brand infant formulas to Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Target, Kroger, CVS and Walgreens, hired Thomas K. Hernquist to lead its store brand marketing and innovations. With more than 20 years of management experience with some of the world's leading brands -- including Read More...

TreeHouse Dominates Canada's Non-Dairy Creamer Store Brand Segment

TreeHouse Foods' E.D. Smith subsidiary signed an agreement to directly supply the Canadian retail store brand non-dairy creamer business rather than sell through Sandra, a privately owned Canadian manufacturer of tea, coffee and related products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but are Read More...

Loblaw's No Name Store Brand Uses Stripped Down Advertising

Defying new retail packaging and design standards, a year ago Loblaw relaunched its No Name store brand, which coincidentally fell in synch with consumers' back-to basics shopping approach and the 1978 roots of the no-frills brand. But the company's new heavyweight advertising campaign for its No N Read More...

Walgreens Hires New Fresh Food Director

As the nation's largest drug chain intends to expand into fresh foods, it tapped Jim Jensen who held a similar position at Tesco's Fresh & Easy chain on the West Coast, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Before joining Fresh & Easy Jensen worked for Dallas-based 7-Eleven. Jensen joi Read More...

Wegmans Launches 'Special Blends'

Wegmans introduced a new line of store brand frozen mixed vegetables, called Special Blends, which are flash-frozen with less than two hours between harvest and processing, according to the company's web site. The varieties include Broccoli, Cauliflower and Pine Nuts in an olive oil, garlic and her Read More...

Walgreen Tests Store Brand Prepared Foods

Walgreen Co. plans to offer private label fresh prepared foods to attract time-pressed customers to its store and better competes with other retailers offering food, according to a Bloomberg report. "Everyone is time-starved and we have the most convenient 7,000 locations in the U.S.," Bryan Pugh, Read More...

Food Lion Introduces New Store Brand Cereal

Sold at its Food Lion and Harveys banners, Salisbury, N.C.-based Food Lion introduced a low-sugar children’s cereal called Good 4 Kids. The cereal is available in four varieties ––apple cinnamon, honey, fruity and chocolate, according to a Supermarket News report. Good 4 Kids als Read More...

Brookshire Brothers to Sell O Organics and Eating Right

Brookshire Brothers plans to carry the Eating Right and O Organics brands, both of which were initially developed as a Safeway private label, according to a Supermarket News Report. The Lufkin, Texas-based retailer will roll out approximately 300 certified organic O Organics SKUs and 250 Eating Rig Read More...

Target Unveils Two Store Brand Initiatives in Kitchenware and Home Garden

This week Target launches Giada De Laurentiis branded kitchenware and foods, an exclusive line of affordable cookware products and specialty foods for the budget conscious home cook. Designed for everyday cooking, the new assortment by Giada -- an award-winning chef and Food Network personality -- 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...

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, what national brands are moving into the natural and organic space and if there is enough supply in the pipeline to meet demand. Greenfeld Read More...

Store Brands Gain Share in Significant Categories

Store 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...

Store Brand Infant Formula Supplier Wins Lawsuit Against Mead Johnson & Co.

A jury awarded store-brand infant formula supplier, PBM Products, $13.5 million in damages stemming from a lawsuit it filed against national brand competitor Mead Johnson & Co. for engaging in false and misleading advertising. PBM’s suit claimed advertising by Mead Johnson, maker of Enfam Read More...

Debunking the Hispanic Store Brands Myth

For years, marketers have taken for granted that Hispanic consumers have a strong affinity to national brands and are extremely brand loyal. However, there are fissures in that theory as more Hispanics seek alternative choices such as store brands, according to Hispanic retailer roundtable hosted a Read More...

7-Eleven Promotes Executive to Focus Exclusively on Private Label Product Development

Tom Gerrity, who has directed 7-Eleven Inc.’s private-label packaged food business while also supervising the grocery category, will now focus solely on the company’s growing 7-Select store brand line. As the new senior product director for private label products, Gerrity will oversee s Read More...

Wal-Mart Recycles Corrugate into Store Brand Pizza Boxes

Wal-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...

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...

Target Launches Better-for-You Archer Farms Brand Extension

Focused on helping families eat right at affordable prices, Target introduced Archer Farms Simply Balanced, a line extension off its premium Archer Farms line. The new food line is built around better-for-you nutrition that’s budget friendly and includes more than 70 products such as pasta, c Read More...

Research Reveals Untapped Profits in Authentic Italian Store Brands

Italian food lovers know quality ingredients when they taste them or cook with them, and can easily detect imposters. Most U.S. grocery stores have not yet captured this important and growing customer base that likely shops at specialty stores and Italian markets to find authentic Italian products. Read More...

7-Eleven Private Label Summit Focuses on Supplier Education

At its first Private Label Summit in Dallas last week, 7-Eleven executives said the company plans to expand the 7-Select private label portfolio in U.S. stores to 300 items in 2010, adding frozen foods such as pizza and mozzarella cheese sticks next month. As the company increases its commitment to Read More...

Wal-Mart Downsizes and Recasts its Marketside Web Site

A 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...

Store Brands Gain Frozen Food Sales

Although national brands command 80 percent of frozen food sales, store brands are gaining share in several frozen categories including ice cream, desserts/fruits/toppings, juices, ice and, in particular, vegetables, according to Nielsen data. Of total frozen food sales of $29.4 billion in 2008, st Read More...

Wal-Mart and Kroger Recall Select Store Brand Dairy Products

Morningstar 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...

Kroger Unveils Produce Traceability Technology

Kroger’s new line of store brand fresh salads includes new technology on the packaging that enables customers to learn where the produce was grown as part of Kroger’s “Quality You Can Trace” program. The operator of 2,470 stores nationwide teamed with HarvestMark, a food tra Read More...

Store Brands Stifle Kraft Growth Across Core Categories

While pizza is a key sales and market driver for Kraft Foods, private brand are winning market share in other core categories such as nuts, cookies, crackers and cheese according to a Chicago Tribune report.Although Kraft pizza sales have increased by double-digits over the past seven consecutive qu Read More...

7-Eleven Accelerates Its March into Store Brands

To complement its growing line of 7-Select store brand products, 7-Eleven is adding 15 packaged bakery items, including snack cakes and pies, mini-donuts and breakfast pastries in single-serve and 10-ounce bags of mini donuts.Participating 7-Eleven stores are offering each of the single-serve items Read More...

Organic Watchdog Group Takes on Target Store Brands

Target' Corp. is being accused by U.S. organic farming group, The Cornucopia Institute, for alleged misleading consumers into thinking some conventional food items it sells are organic.The institute -- which filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's organic program, and Wisconsin an Read More...

Nielsen: Store Brand Candy Sales Not So Sweet This Halloween

Store brands seem to be getting the short end of the sales stick this season as most shoppers opt for national brand candy leading up to Halloween, according to a report in Nielsen Wire. Although during the year, store brands candy hold an 8.1 percent share of candy sales, that position has slipped Read More...

A&P Adds Artisan Cheeses to its Hartford Reserve Store Brand Line

This week Montvale, N.J.-based A&P introduced a new line of artisan private label cheeses under its premium Hartford Reserve line. The Hartford Reserve Artisan Cheese Collections will feature new vintage-aged gouda, cranberry chipotle cheddar and a blue cheese with mild white goat's milk called Read More...

Harris Teeter Hosts Store Brand Cooking Contest

Harris Teeter is hosting a store brands holiday video recipe challenge, inviting customers to share their favorite recipes cooked with Harris Teeter store brands. Participants, who must produce a video of themselves making their favorite holiday recipe, can win $2,500 cash or $500 in Harris Teeter Read More...

Store Brands Contain Less Sodium than National Brands

Although 40 percent of U.K. consumers believe lower-cost store brands contain more salt than nationally known brands, a recent study by Consensus Action on Salt & Health reveals otherwise. U.K. store brands have considerably less sodium than consumer packaged goods brands, according to an articl 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...

Food Lion Reintroduces Holly Farms Chicken as Its Exclusive Store Brand

As part of an agreement with Tyson Foods Inc., Food Lion LLC will replace all store brand fresh chicken with Holly Farms premium brand chicken at 1,200 Food Lion, Bloom and Bottom Dollar Food grocery stores throughout the eastern United States. After a 10 year absence from retail grocery stores in Read More...

Profiles in Innovation: A&P's 'Green Way' to Sustainability (Part 3 of 4)

Editor's Note: This is the third in an exclusive four-part series on A&P's revamped store brands' program. Part I, "A&P's Store Brands Transformation," focused on the grocer's overall strategy and plan. Last week's Part II, "A&P's High Hopes for Premium Store Brands," focused on Via Roma Read More...

Profiles in Innovation: A&P's High Hopes for Premium Store Brands (Part 2 of 4)

Editor's Note: This is the second of an exclusive four-part series on A&P's revamped store brand's program. Last week's article, "A&P's Store Brands Transformation," focused on the grocer's overall strategy and plan. Subsequent weekly articles in the series will feature Green Way, A&P's Read More...

Profiles in Innovation: A&P's Store Brands Transformation (Part 1 of 4)

Over the past 18 months, Doug Palmer and his store brands' team seem to have accomplished the impossible  -- they revamped and repositioned The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s (A&P's) entire store brands' portfolio of more than 4,000 items across 435 stores. At the center of the pr Read More...

Store Brands Get a Big Shot in the Arm from Consumer Reports

The coming of age of store brands is resoundingly confirmed in the October issue of Consumer Reports where store brands were found to be equally good -- or better -- than national brands nearly 80 percent of the time. Comparative blind tests were conducted in 29 food categories among various prod Read More...

Wal-Mart Exec Likens Great Value Brand to Coca-Cola, Tide and Cheerios

Wal-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...

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...

Meijer and Kroger Forecast Double-Digit Store Brand Growth

While 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, retail Read More...

U.K.’s Waitrose Gets Solid Sales Boost from New ‘Essentials’ Line

Since the launch of its new Essentials line of staple products, British food retailer Waitrose saw sales rise 8.4 percent and attracted 250,000 new shoppers in the past four weeks compared to prior year, according to Nielsen data. Sales per transaction were also up 5 percent. 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...

Store Brands Drive Differentiation and Profit

Gone are the days when one store satisfied all family and household needs. Today, shoppers are less loyal to the stores they shop in and many shop in several different formats to satisfy their varied and fickle needs.     Grocery retailers understand this trend full well.  Read More...