As a result, beyond the rapid rollout of private brands and frenemy partnerships, retailers are also building a new mousetrap for sourcing their proprietary lines.
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The growing share of private label brands, international expansion and e-commerce strategy will further aid growth.
Costco maintains its strength on this front by offering private label brands and bulk purchases.
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The private label brands have low prices, higher margins and are comparable in quality to national brands.
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It offers a number of private label brands such as Kirkland Signature that have high value associated with them.
This includes an extensive collection of company-owned private label brands, which offer value priced alternatives across numerous merchandise categories.
One of the latest additions to its pool of private label brands is Green Mountain Coffee coffee cups.
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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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Like his other works, the book would not exist without the sponsorship of the three prominent private sector brands: EMC, FedEc and Cisco.
The firm says it will continue to acquire luxury brands such as Kate Spade, which it bought last December, to focus on customers who find private-label brands unappealing.
Robert Drbul of Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, estimates that private-label brands are 10-15% more profitable.
If so, the future for private-label brands may well be outside their parent companies' doors.
Mr Cohen predicts that department stores will respond by creating stand-alone shops for their private-label brands and selling their wares in other stores.
Furthermore, private-label brands do not appeal to all buyers.
But Belling and cofounder Pat Turpin, an ex-investment banker who managed private-label brands for Costco, needed to get the snack out there fast before they could persuade chains like Safeway and Whole Foods to clear shelf space.
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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.
It also carries many popular brands and private labels.
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But ambitious private companies are acquiring foreign brands in hopes of speeding up their evolution into international competitors.
Last month the company said it will sell a majority stake in its Mexx brands to the private equity buyer Gores Group.
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The hope will be that, as with private schools, successful institutions will develop brands which inspire confidence and attract parents.
The private equity firms will control a portfolio of brands that include Ding Dongs, Twinkies and Ho-Ho cupcakes.
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Scott also discusses how private equity managers, often excel at identifying underperforming brands and turning them around financially, are doing the same thing in sports.
The chain eliminated all private-label sunglasses and now focuses on only 20 brands--40% of them made by Luxottica (up from from 15% a year ago).
The struggles of these companies and their brands are the fallout of the growth of private-label goods and the rise of hard discounters like Germany's Aldi and Lidl chains.
Speculation about a private equity buyout of its beverage operations, which include such brands as Dr Pepper and Snapple, has caused its shares to jump 35%.
According to the WSJ, stores have been increasing the prices on their private-label foods faster than the prices of the equivalent national brands.
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Obama wearing their brands' clothing when they prepare investment packages for bankers and private-equity investors, Mr. Burke says.
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