Private Label Buyer is the industry leader covering the retail and wholesale market for buyers and executives who purchase food and non-food private label products.

Private Label Buyer is intended for the retail executives and buyers responsible for purchasing private label products for supermarket chains, drug store chains, and mass merchandise chains.

Each issue contains news relevant to the private label industry, including product information, new product developments, private label trends and market growth.

Private Label Buyer is the only monthly magazine dedicated to all aspects for retail private label - from purchasing to merchandising. It is a source of useful information for retailers responsible for successful private label programs., finance and trade services, and domestic and international economic development to assist our readers in making their business profitable.

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Read the Digital Issue: Private Label Buyer, June 2009

Cover Story
Operation Expansion
A&P is continuing its year-long 150th anniversary celebration with a massive expansion of its “Own Brands” private label program.

The retailer wants to provide not only a competitive point of difference with proprietary, innovative high-quality products, but also “consumer-centric” solutions that speak to health and wellness, value and other needs.
Cover photo by Vito Palmisano.

4 Editor’s Insight
6 The Private Eye
Today’s consumers are giving private label products high marks for quality; The Nielsen Co. reports that 97 percent of all U.S. households now use store brand foods and beverages on a regular basis; and more.
12 Thinking Inside the Box
Tom Stephens encourages retailers to reinforce the private label message day in and day out.
13 Trend Watch — Non-Food Trends
Retailers now are tapping into the social media realm. But they need to be prepared to deal with the good, the bad and the ugly.
40 Special Report — Retail Executives of the Year
PL Buyer honors the star performers in the private label industry with its annual Retail Executives of the Year Awards.
43 Special Report — Resurgence of the Center Store
Private label is taking a run at center store, hoping to grab a bigger share of more than $21 billion in dry grocery sales across channels.
46 New Products
48 Randy’s Ramblings

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PL Buyer provides retail executives compelling information on merchandising and marketing private label products through in-depth features on leading retail chains, up-close category analysis and a focus on industry trends, all designed to help maximize quality and profitability in private label programs.

PL Buyer is an informational franchise that serves the private label retail market. The printed magazine is published monthly, packed with a wide range of useful information that retailers can incorporate into their own store brand programs, helping them build share and the bottom line.

PL Buyer’s electronic format (www.privatelabelbuyer.com) includes a state-of-the-art Web site offering information that is not found in our monthly printed publication and a weekly electronic newsletter called the eReport. The eReport offers exclusive information about private label developments, providing the all-important “perspective” that executives want to know.

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