Rochester turned to catheter sales in Europe, mostly private label, which were declining rapidly.
Ninety-five percent of its products are private label and the store is a strictly no-frills operation.
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If you look at private label ice cream you might find 1.75 quarts or 1.89.
The growing share of private label brands, international expansion and e-commerce strategy will further aid growth.
Freshlink Foods is the largest private label frozen sausage supplier in the UK retail market.
Yet not all consumer-goods firms have succumbed to the onslaught of the private label.
Costco maintains its strength on this front by offering private label brands and bulk purchases.
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This includes additional benefits from its store localization program and continual emphasis of its private label merchandise.
The private label brands have low prices, higher margins and are comparable in quality to national brands.
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The weak results could be a consequence of recession-wary consumers continuing to shop for cheaper private label items.
On the merchandising front, trends have been positive for Saks reflecting, in part, its attention to private label merchandise.
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It offers a number of private label brands such as Kirkland Signature that have high value associated with them.
Penney in 2002, he oversaw its massive supply chain and was widely praised for launching the JCP private label.
It tried to offer cheaper CDs and improved its private label range Worth-It, which did well for school uniform.
This includes an extensive collection of company-owned private label brands, which offer value priced alternatives across numerous merchandise categories.
All leading online travel agents are aggressively pursuing private label partnerships with airlines.
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One of the latest additions to its pool of private label brands is Green Mountain Coffee coffee cups.
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Retailers often mimic the trademark and packaging of a top-selling brand to stimulate sales of private label offerings.
In addition, management has worked hard to develop private label fashion merchandise that will appeal to a more value-oriented customer.
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The retailer has been increasing the penetration of private label brands within its merchandise by about 0.5% to 0.75% annually.
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In response, department stores have increasingly focused on selling private label apparel that they produce themselves and sell through their own stores.
Categories vulnerable to private label are where there is very little differentiation.
Today private label sales account for up to 50% of total apparel sales by U.S. department stores, up from 25% a decade ago.
Many offer private label card credits or store specific cards and could use swipe fees to steer shoppers toward these products.
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At the same time, pushing the private label keeps the pressure on manufacturers of nationally branded goods to keep their own price increases in check.
It sells about 10% marked down fashion merchandise from full line stores, 25% is private label and the rest is specially bought merchandise at regular prices.
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For brand owners and innovators it has been increasingly difficult to differentiate on functional features and benefits to get ahead of competitive brands and private label.
Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and distributes branded and private label vitamins, nutritional supplements and nutrition bars in the United States and throughout the world.
In an innovative twist on the traditional e-commerce formula, Light in the Box leverages those Chinese factories to churn out lower-cost private label products made precisely to customer specifications.
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The emphasis for Treehouse is on the private label business, a segment that thrives during tough economic times as customers become more inclined to switch from national brands to store brands.
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