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Special Report: Retail Roundtable

Private Label Food World Moving Faster Than Ever

Retailers also reveal the ways suppliers can make an impact on them and their private label plans.
May 10, 2013

Grabbing chairs at the ECRM Private Brands Food conference in Napa, Calif., in March, a small group bantered around ideas about private label today.


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Private Eye: Laundry & Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

Our secret shoppers head to their local retailers to find out what’s happening in cleaning and laundry products.
May 10, 2013

Detergents are a $7 billion category, with private label holding a 4.4 percent dollar share and a 6.7 percent unit share (1.4 billion units), according to Nielsen records compiled for the 2012 PLMA Private Label Yearbook.


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Private Eye: Beverages

Beverage Battle

Our secret shoppers head to their local grocers to find out what’s happening in beverages
April 8, 2013

Bottled water is the 11th largest category in private label, with $1.9 billion in sales and a 28.8 percent share of the category, according to Nielsen records compiled for the 2012 PLMA Private Label Yearbook.


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Shoppers Say Quality Better, Buying Habits Will Remain

Benchmark survey shows private label expected to hold share even if economy improves in 2013.
April 8, 2013

 Drugstore retailers should be wary of the discounts they offer on over-the-counter pharmaceuticals in their private label products, according to a new survey conducted exclusively for PLBuyer by Consumer Science. 


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Perishables Buyer Cover Story

Seafood Marketing Snapshots

Although seafood is challenged by sustainability and traceability concerns, retailers can drive sales through private label, value-added products and other initiatives.
March 21, 2013
The newswires have been buzzing of late about the recently released results from Oceana, Washington, D.C., regarding widespread labeling fraud in the seafood industry.
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Perishables Spotlight: Frozen

Better-For-You Pizza

In order to foster improved frozen-pizza sales, manufacturers are diving into more specialty niches that touch on health-leaning metrics.
March 20, 2013
While frozen pizza saw a bit of revenue growth during the most-recent recession, overall—in the big picture—the category has continued to slip.
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Private Eye: Paper Products

Paper Product Battle

Our secret shoppers head to their local grocers to find out what’s happening in paper products.
March 14, 2013

Paper products are the fourth-largest category in private label by dollar volume, and fifth by unit volume, according to Nielsen records compiled for the 2012 PLMA Private Label Yearbook.


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Retailer Profiles

The World According to Trader Joe’s

A look inside the tireless cultural phenomenon—yesterday and today—including its notable take on private label.
March 12, 2013
Back in the late 1950s, before the Hawaiian shirts, cedar planks and hidden parrots, there was Pronto Market—more of a convenience-store concept, with units scattered around greater Los Angeles that, beyond beer, wine and liquor, added specialty attractions like house-packaged nuts and cheeses, as well as fresh-squeezed orange juice.
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Retailer Profile

Publix—Grocery Gem of the Southeast

By offering a savvy mix of forward-trending and traditional options, Publix should be smartly poised to meet the competition head-on.
February 6, 2013
Spend any appreciable amount of time in Florida and, chances are, you will find yourself stepping inside a Publix supermarket.
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Consumer Survey

Shoppers Say Quality Better, Buying Habits Will Remain

January 17, 2013

Benchmark survey shows private label expected to hold share even if economy improves in 2013.


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The PLBuyer Top 10, April 2013

The following stories were the top 10 most-read items posted to the PLBuyer website during the month of April—and we’ve collected them here for quick and easy review. Click through to read the full stories.

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Coming with a clear, comprehensive plan was the key to success for Longo Brothers Fruit Markets when the grocer decided to roll out a two-tier private label strategy, Jenny Longo and Robert Koss tell PLBuyer editor Chris Freeman in this podcast.

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May 2013

The May 2013 Issue of Private Label Buyer includes a cover story on deli choices, as well as Category Insights on milk and juice and cheese products. Check it out today!

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