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Private Label Strategy
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Private Label Strategy

by Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-benedict m. Steenkamp
February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 55m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Encircling Manufacturer Brands with Retailer Brand Portfolios

Wal-Mart’s annual private label portfolio sales: $115 billion

WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL private label follows one of the four propositions of generic, copycat, premium, and value innovator, most retailers manage a brand portfolio, which incorporates multiple types of store brands. By having a portfolio of own labels, a retailer can penetrate several different segments simultaneously. Traditionally, savvy segmentation of the total market has been a domain where branded goods manufacturers excelled. Nowadays, though, retailers implement a sophisticated mix of segmentation strategies to construct their own-brand portfolios.

Portfolio Segmentation Strategies

We broadly distinguish three ...

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