Why SuperValu is sowing Wild Harvest brand

Behind its popular organic and free-from private brand, company continues to innovate to help its retail partners differentiate

Fresh takes on mature products

Retailers and manufacturers of own brand products such as eggs, coffee and paper towels can inject categores with new life

Retailer News & Profiles

MPC rebrands SuperAmerica as Speedway

Rename of convenience store chain is part of MPC and Andeavor merger

Total Store

BJ’s Wholesale Club holds membership event without fees or commitment

Club retailer invites everyone to shop and to learn about latest features

Reading up on private brands

Greg Pohlmann is the author of a new e-book, “Thinking Store Brands First." Click below to watch videos on the making of the book. Click here to purchase the book.

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Retailer News & Profiles

Costco’s secret weapon to differentiate

‘It's one of the perks that helps persuade shoppers to dish out $60 or $120 for a membership every year,’ according to CNN Business

Aldi premieres new national ad campaign

Retailer brings laughter to customers with ‘Shop Differentli’ ads

Research & Data

Health and wellness, and store brands

FMI report details how retailers can position their store brands for success in category

Focus on Fresh

Safeway partners with Dole on private brand fruits and vegetables

Line to include ready-to-eat salads, snacks, fresh-cut platters and value-added vegetables

Product Development and Management

And the winners of PLMA's 2018 Salute to Excellence Awards are ...

Judges select 53 products — 38 food and 15 non-food items— for winners in annual awards competition

Research & Data

Report: Amazon launching ‘exclusive brands’

Products are online retailer’s brands, but are made and owned by other manufacturers that benefit from being promoted on Amazon.com

SB Growth 100

The fastest-growing store brands

The Store Brands’ Growth 100 list features product segments and categories where private brands post dollar sales and unit sales gains of 5 percent or more, and account for$5 million or more in total sales in the last year, according to data taken by market researcher IRI

Latest Blogs

From the Editors

Oct

Creating connections through coffee

Searching for coffee, I struck gold with a good price and an unexpected but welcome value in Meijer Gold’s flavorful brand

Oct

Why Target’s new Smartly line is sharp thinking

Retailer is offering consumers — through selling ordinary and even humdrum products — a perfect way to save money

Industry Briefs

Oct

Natural Grocers launches 360-degree website format

Oct

Why the Fresh Market is going back to its roots

Oct

Publix to expand headquarters, add 700 corporate jobs

Sep

Kroger expanding customizable seafood meals in Richmond, Va., area

Sep

Snak King celebrates 40 years with new website

More Briefs

2018 Buyers' Guide

Buyers' Guide

Podcast: How to improve the checkout experience

Digimarc Corp.’s Heidi Dethloff speaks with Store Brands Editor-in-Chief Lawrence Aylward about the dangers that poor checkout experiences can inflict on a retailer’s image, and how retailers can improve the process.

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