
Nir Wegrzyn asks, how do brands account their price point to the consumer when private label is becoming increasingly savvy?
20 December 2011

The news that Tesco is pitting itself against the top brand leaders in the £1.2bn yoghurt sector with the launch of its new own-brand yoghurt offer — Yoo — is, I’m sure, making more than a few brands sit up and take notice.
23 March 2011

Sam’s Club, one of the largest membership-only warehouse club retailers in the U.S., a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., introduced this month a private brand tequila — Calle Azul.
29 November 2010
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The following is the second of three installments. In the first installed, an evaluation of the current market landscape was covered and can be reviewed here on POPSOP. The conclusion of this series will take a closer look...
Eric Ashworth, Anthem Worldwide
23 November 2009
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The time is right for the marriage of CPGs’ new product development expertise and retailers’access to shoppers and ability to execute. Today there are constant questions about traditional media’s effectiveness, a segmented customer base, and a vast majority of purchase decisions being made...
Eric Ashworth, Anthem Worldwide
16 November 2009
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Australia’s Yellow Tail wine is often named among the best examples of packaging opportunities in wine marketing.
21 August 2009
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By the end of this year UK grocery chain Budgens will introduce two new private label ranges, designed by Pentagram, as Design Week reports. The launch of Better and Best (the working titles yet) will follow the...
9 July 2009

At the end of 2003 international retailer HEMA contacted the Dutch design firm Koeweiden Postma to ask them to design a number oа packaging for food ranges. The agency had never designed any packaging...
22 May 2009

When MEGA launched its private label, the objective was, first, to create a label that will deliver lower price without 'damaging' the overall shopping experience. Second, to develop a design which will support the overall message of healthy nutrition (each pack offers a tip for...
7 April 2009

Partida Tequila is named by some experts the best tequila money can buy by. Beginning March, J. Gary Shansby, founder and chairman of Partida Tequila, announced the additions of Michael Mondavi and Maurice Kanbar to the Partida Tequila Board of...
12 March 2009
“For an average consumer the value of branding is down to making the right choice”

Sara Jones, Creative Director at brand development and packaging design agency Anthem Worldwide, shares her round up of the top five print innovations, which have the potential to create real standout, as long as they’re used to enhance –- rather than ‘be’ -- the brand idea.
If you had to choose the ultimate business super power, what would it be? Big budgets, global reach, an innovation pipeline full to bursting, a PR machine capable of generating positive press 24/7? Without hesitation, I answered “agility.”
Cheryl Swanson, Head of Toniq, once again explores the consumer trends for different age groups in the USA.
Before we had Apple Macs, Photoshop and a myriad of other programmes, design centered on tradition and craftsmanship, on the physical and the tactile. Yet now, we see the worlds of digital design and physical craftsmanship joining to create new expressions and celebrations of the power of making.
There’s a natural relationship between the style of our daily surroundings and how we feel. A great space can make us feel better, more hopeful and even more productive. And we often use our own space to express a vision of ourselves.

