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Report Highlights Benefits Of Private-Label Brands In Europe

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Report Highlights Benefits Of Private-Label Brands In Europe

EuroCommerce and the European Retail Round Table (ERRT) have launched a new report on the benefits of private label, revealing that retailer brands now make up some 30 per cent of the grocery retail market in Europe.

The report, Retailer Brands – Serving Consumers, SMEs and Innovation, was launched as a special event in Brussels, hosted by MEP Ivan Štefanec. It is based on a review of the current knowledge of the European grocery sector.

It focuses on four key areas: the benefits to consumers, how retailer brands foster competition and choice, how retailers innovate with private-label products, and how small and medium-sized enterprises thrive through their production.

Based on its findings, the report recommends that policymakers resist pressure to treat retailer brands as an unfair practice, and recognise private-label offerings as a significant driver of consumer choice and innovation.

"Our report shows that consumers value retailer brands, trust them, and buy them again and again. While price remains a top priority for consumers, they also look for quality and the ability to compare products and switch to what suits their wishes and needs," commented Christian Verschueren, director-general of EuroCommerce.

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"With a range of product options from premium to budget ranges, and organic, free-from and Fairtrade, retailer bands make a real contribution to customer satisfaction," he added.

Susanne Czech, director-general of ERRT, noted, "In a highly competitive environment, retailer brands are a means for retailers to differentiate and provide consumers with real choice.

"If retailers were all selling branded goods only, they would only compete on price. This would fuel a 'price race' to the bottom, with none of the benefits of choice, which retailer brands offer."

© 2016 European Supermarket Magazine – your source for the latest retail news. Article by Jenny Whelan. To subscribe to ESM: The European Supermarket Magazineclick here.

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