Grocery retailers across the country are turning to innovative store brands products to attract loyal shoppers as competition heats up between brick and mortar and online retailers.
PLMA Private Label Trade Show, organized by the Private Label Manufacturers Association, looks to set a new all-time record for show size and attendance when it comes to the Rosemont Convention Center, just outside Chicago, from November 11 to 13.
Private label has been stepping up its game lately, and people, particularly millennials, are starting to take notice. Retailers are adding more premium items to their store brand lines, and people are actively seeking to buy private label products instead of choosing them just because they are less expensive than the national brand equivalent (NBE).
With the entrance of online behemoth Amazon and German discount retailer Lidl into the U.S. grocery market, its fate — and associated opportunities — were on the minds of exhibitors and attendees of the 2017 Private Label Trade Show, hosted by the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA) in Rosemont, Ill. this week (Nov. 12-14).
The Private Label Trade Show, operated by the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA), will take place in Rosemont, IL at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, from November 12–14. The event is just minutes from Chicago and in close proximity to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
In private label today, as we see elsewhere across the snack and bakery industry, clean label is still the current buzz phrase, and consumers continue to seek foods that fall into the larger better-for-you category.
Sales at Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate have exploded, particularly since moving to a facility on The Hill, an Italian neighborhood on the city's southwest side.
The gluten-free category is constantly in flux. Although people with celiac disease have always had a necessity to turn to the category for grain-centric snack products and baked goods, there are many who maintain an interest in eating gluten-free for other reasons.