Strategies & Solutions

BJ’s serves up store brands sides for Thanksgiving
Items are included in a promotion that could earn shoppers a free turkey.
Supplements producer turns influencers into private brands
Healthy Extracts is giving influencers with more than 500,000 followers a way to develop a private label product.

Americans could buy 161M pounds of butter this holiday season

Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin predicts that the sale of butter will continue to surge between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Tim Hortons, Justin Bieber team up for Canadian collaboration

Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons has launched a new exclusive partnership with music superstar Justin Bieber, including three new flavors of Timbits, and merchandise to come soon.
October online grocery sales numbers carry over from September

Brick Meets Click and Mercatus' Grocery Shopping Survey showed nearly identical online grocery sale numbers in October compared to September.
Hershey gets into the private label pretzel biz

Candy company bolsters salty snack business with $1.2 billion acquisition.
Organic Garage adds crunchy snack to private label line

Canadian retail chain Organic Garage has announced a new addition to its Kitchen Originals private label line.
7-Eleven adds caffeine to the Replenish sports drink line

7-Eleven has added two new caffeinated flavors to its own brand Replenish line of sports drinks.
Southeastern Grocers earns 2 awards for own brand foods

SE Grocers continues to see its own brand products win acclaim as PLMA honored two products with Salute to Excellence Awards.
Petco develops exclusive holiday collection to reach pandemic-driven pet parents

More than 400 unique items from holiday-inspired toys, costumes and more for dogs, cats and small animals to be featured in its Merry Makings at Petco branded collection.