private label goods

Private label goods and services are available in a wide range of industries from food to cosmetics to web hosting.

Macy recently announced plans to offer its private label goods to other, noncompetitive retailers.

Most private label goods were made overseas or as a kind of afterthought by brand-name manufacturers.

In 1981, Mr. Gross saw that there might be a market for private label goods that had a distinctive look.

Offering many national brands at private label prices, Mars maintains a limited line of their own private label goods.

Catering to low- and middle-income consumers, Alexander's offered discounted designer fashions and high-quality private label goods.

Typically, the selection of private label goods by retailers was done by teams composed of buyers, product managers, marketing executives and some fashion specialists.

They said the chain might have too many stores, with 62, and that some of the private label goods made specifically for Saks Fifth Avenue were overpriced.

It is also the key to the expansion of private label goods, like film and orange juice, which are generally sold well below the price of name brand goods.

Also, the team set up a product development department to give the chain more exclusive private label goods, which provide 50 percent of its sales and which can be highly profitable.

In February 2007, Pathmark partnered with Wild Oats Markets by adding Wild Oats-brand private label goods to the 141 Pathmarks.

It distributes both brand name and private label goods branded as Centrella and Silver Cup Value Buy to about 240 member-owner grocery stores in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

The company then tries to attract more shoppers by passing those savings on with better prices and by offering higher-quality private label goods and conveniences like in-store dry cleaning and gas stations in parking lots.

The Super Saver stores offered Acme products for private label goods rather than the Albertsons brand, much as the original Acme Super Saver chain sold the company's Alpha Beta products instead of the Acme Ideal brand of the time.

The NSF Consumer Products Division tests and certifies consumer products and appliances used in and around the home including home appliances, cookware, bakeware, small kitchen electronics, bottled water and beverages, nutritional and dietary supplements, private label goods and personal care products.