This article responds to Professor Benjamin Klein's recently published article that describes a comprehensive procompetitive rationale for RPM - resolving the incentive incompatibility between the brand manufacturer and the retailers that sell that brand. Retailers commonly have insufficient...

In this paper, we investigate how retailer competition and asymmetry affect store brand strategy when some of the consumers are one-stop shoppers. We find that when the intensity of competition between retailers is low, store brands can be used to shield consumers loyal to the national brand...

This research was conducted in Three Districts of South Rajasthan (Udaipur, Chittorgarh and Pali) and explores the reasons behind the preference of purchasing Private label brands (PLBs) from an organized retail chain store by consumers. Participants indicated that their decision to purchase...

The consolidation of retailers across markets has considerably altered the competitive dynamics between leading brand manufacturers and retailers. The era in which brand manufacturers dictate the game to compliant retailers is long gone. Nowadays, with more equal negotiation power retailers are...

The image perceived by the clients of supermarkets and hypermarkets is not only the result of the companies' informative actions conducted by means of advertising, public relations, online presence or brochures with insertions about the sold items, the best prices and the most attractive offers,...

Store brands account for 41% of the Spanish market share in 2011, and a further increase is expected in next years due to economic crisis, which makes up an increasingly competitive market with great research interest. In this context, our study aims to analyze which variables have a relevant...