Friday 4 May 2007

The Relentless Advance of Private Label



Boston Consulting Group have published a useful and concise article on the strategies of those manufacturers who are competing successfully with private label.


Some of the key poings strategies of those manufacturers are:


  • They adopt a total category approach. More importantly their definition of the category tends to be broader than most - encompassing usage, demographics and occasion

  • They have higher levels of investment in product quality and innovation

  • They leverage their economies of scale in manufacturing and supply chain management to provide more SKU varieties at lower costs

BCG have produced a series of questions manufacturer's should be answering to help them understand how well they are and can compete with private label.


See the full article here.

Jason Wenn

No comments: