February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 55m
English
Percentage of all private labels that are copycats: 50 percent
DESPITE ALL THE BUZZ surrounding new developments in the private label landscape, such as premium store brands, we should not forget that traditional private labels—generics and copycats—are still the dominant types of store brands around the world. And retailers that venture into private labels typically start here. Hence it is appropriate to start this discussion of retail strategies vis-à-vis private labels with these still-ubiquitous types of store brand.
Private labels, especially in the U.S., started as cheap, inferior products. Historically, they did not even carry the name of the store and were therefore ...
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