Articles Tagged with ''private label''

Outstanding store brands products can now be found everywhere across the country and just about anywhere across the retailing spectrum – a reality that is clearly underscored by the winners of PLMA’s Salute to Excellence award for 2015.

ConAgra Foods, Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its private label operations to TreeHouse Foods for approximately $2.7 billion in cash, excluding transaction-related expenses.

The Kroger Co. announced a new line of corporate brand products, imported directly from the most food-rich regions of the world. HemisFares™ is a guided tour of the best-of-the-best tastes the planet has to offer – found exclusively at the Kroger family of stores.

As consumers continue to lean toward healthier meal and snacking options, Meijer announced an expansion of its assortment of real food products through the launch of the True Goodness™ by Meijer brand.

Private label food products are getting some much needed attention, especially from young shoppers, according to the Private Label Foods: What’s Driving Purchase? - US, February 2015 report from market intelligence agency, Mintel. Per the report, 42 percent of Millennials (age 18-36) agree store brand food products are more innovative than name brand products.

Many consumers feel eating healthier is too expensive. Organic and natural products are obviously a part of the healthy eating trend, and roughly a quarter of Americans eat organic foods on a regular basis—though the level has remained the same for years due to high prices.

It is certainly not uncommon these days to purchase at least some natural and organic products and even occasionally shop in a specialty gourmet retailer.

TreeHouse Foods, Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., said it completed its previously announced acquisition of Flagstone Foods, the Minneapolis provider of private label healthy snacks

McGladrey LLP, a Chicago-based accounting, tax and consulting firm, released its 2014 McGladrey Manufacturing & Distribution Monitor: Food and Beverage Report.