Own-label reports, insight and analysis – Page 2
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Category Report
Mega-egg trend dominates Easter NPD launches
Brands and retailers are super-sizing Easter eggs for this year’s festivities – at a higher price per kilo than smaller treats. Why?
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Analysis and Features
Will Asda’s discounter price matching scheme pay off?
Asda is the first supermarket to match both Aldi and Lidl
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Analysis and Features
Hot beverages 2023: Cost of living boosts own label instant coffee
For an affordable and convenient caffeine hit, more shoppers are turning to instant coffee
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Analysis and Features
Home baking 2023: Home bakers ditch brands for own label
Private label has shifted an extra 5.1 million kilos while brands have sold 1.3 million fewer
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Analysis and Features
Pizza 2023: Posher pizzas take the fight to own label
Own label is king in pizza, with 65.5% of the category’s value across chilled and frozen
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Analysis and Features
Face off: Top Products Survey 2023 pits brands vs own-label
It’s no longer a battle of the brands. The bigger battle, after two years of inflation, is between brands and own label. Who’s winning?
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Analysis and Features
Personal care - beauty 2023: Bargains on beauty lines drive growth
The lipstick effect took on a literal meaning in 2023
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Comment and Opinion
What planet is the CMA on with its profiteering witch-hunt?
The CMA’s reports have as much insight as a five-year-old’s review of War & Peace, says Ged Futter, director of The Retail Mind
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Comment and Opinion
Denise Van Outen spills the Christmas Secrets of Supermarket Own-Brands
Christmas is a time of trading up, splashing out and impressing guests. Does the necessary frugality of our times apply to the festive season?
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Comment and Opinion
Poor maths and anti-brand bias are the flaws in the CMA’s new report
The clumsy and manipulative presentation of the CMA’s findings left the door open to unwarranted criticism of brands, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Category Report
Can NPD help cheese wake from its nightmare?
Retailers have slashed branded cheese ranges and pushed own label. Brands are now fighting back with a ‘red tide’ of innovation
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Analysis and Features
Food retailers’ 12 trends of Christmas
The cost of living crisis may be ongoing, but retailers are tempting shoppers with high-end fare – from savoury profiteroles to posh brunches
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Comment and Opinion
How Hilton Foods is blazing a trail for British exports
Hilton Foods is now Britain’s biggest food and drink supplier. How?
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Comment and Opinion
Asda’s ready meals are just the start of own brand ambitions
We’ve invested over £80m to improve the quality of our own-label products, says Sam Dickson, VP own brand, commercial strategy & operations at Asda
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KVI Tracker
Oven chips 22% pricier as potato production declines
It comes as UK potato production dwindles and cooking oil remains in tight supply
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Category Report
Can Tucci perk up pasta?
With Stanley Tucci waxing lyrical and low prices luring shoppers, some believe the pasta category has an opportunity to get fancier
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Comment and Opinion
Own label’s popularity will outlive the cost of living crisis
Own label will play an increasingly vital role in grocery dynamics, says Rachel White, MD UK&I at NIQ
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Category Report
A feast for families: Dairymen ice cream category report 2023
Family tubs are the only sector of ice cream in volume growth, with sales driven by affordable prices and traditional flavours
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Analysis and Features
How Holland & Barrett is transforming its food offer
The health and wellness retailer is returning to its 19th-century roots but with a health twist, naturally
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Category Report
A crying shame for hipster coffee
Eye-watering price hikes are getting coffee shoppers in a tizz – and they’re being tempted away from trendy brands