Center store dollar sales are up by more than 10% among more than half of grocery retailers in 2020, according to Supermarket News’ 2020 Center Store Trends Survey, with a total of 86% of retailer respondents saying they expect to see an increase in sales in the category in 2020 versus 2019.
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The Private Label Manufacturers Association International Council has named 43 retailers winners in its 2020 International “Salute to Excellence” Awards, recognizing the best food and non-food products of the year. The competition first began in 2014.
Aldi is sharing the results of its second annual Fan Favorites survey, and perhaps unsurprisingly, people love pizza.
Target Corp. is adding a premium collection called Good & Gather Signature as part of a 600-item expansion of its year-old Good & Gather label, which will become the retailer’s largest private brand.
Target reported its strongest quarter to date, highlighted by an increase in same-store sales of 24.3% for the second quarter ended Aug. 1.
About nine out of 10 consumers trust private brands as much as they do national brands, according to a new report from Daymon.
Albertsons’ O Organics and Open Nature store brands grew faster than its overall business in the first quarter, according to the retailer’s earnings call on July 27.
With National Ice Cream Day around the corner on July 19, Albertsons has launched new flavors of own brands ice cream under its Signature Select line and introduced a range of non-dairy, plant-based flavors under its innovative Open Nature brand.
Trader Joe’s has some unique own brand dessert beers brewing for the colder months ahead, one of the few categories in-store where they tend to lean on branded breweries to stock the shelf.
Price Rite Marketplace, a division of Wakefern Food Corp., now offers a greater selection of the Bowl & Basket and Paperbird brands at its 59 stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Maryland.