Download or read book Private labels buyer power and competition policy written by Christopher Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Private Labels Brands and Competition Policy written by Ariel Ezrachi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing use of private labels in recent years has affected significantly the landscape of retail competition, with major retailers no longer being confined to their traditional role as purchasers and distributors of branded goods. By selling their own-label products within their outlets they are competing with their upstream brand suppliers for sales and shelf space. This unique relationship, and the continued strengthening of private labels, raises important questions as to their pro-competitive effects and possible negative effects. This book provides an in-depth review of the range of competitive and intellectual property issues raised in connection with private brands in Europe and the US. It examines the development of private labels and their impact on retail competition, then moves on to focus on policy and questions the adequacy of current economic and legal analysis in light of the characteristics of own-label competition, and finally it presents a thorough evaluation of the legal issues in the field, including chapters on horizontal and vertical effects, dominance, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, copycat packaging and consumer welfare. The book contains a collection of essays reflecting the debate on the impact of private labels upon competition, investment and innovation in the retail sector. The ideas and arguments underlying the articles have been developed through a series of seminars held in the Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy over the last three years. Participants in these seminars have included competition officials, law academics, practitioners and representatives from industry.

Download or read book Competition Policy and the Control of Buyer Power written by Peter C. Carstensen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the economic and competition policy issues that buyer power creates. Drawing on economic analysis and cases from around the world, it explains why conventional seller side standards and analyses do not provide an adequate framework for responding to the problems that buyer power can create. Based on evidence that abuse of buyer power is a serious problem for the competitive process, the book evaluates the potential for competition law to deal directly with the problems of abuse either through conventional competition law or special rules aimed at abusive conduct. The author also examines controls over buying groups and mergers as potentially more useful responses to risks created by undue buyer power.

Download or read book Unchallenged Market Power The Tale of Supermarkets Private Labels and Competition Law written by Ariel Ezrachi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed a distinct increase in the sales and popularity of private labels. The growing market share of private labels has transformed the landscape of retail competition in developed countries. Major retailers are no longer confined to their traditional roles of purchasers and distributors of branded goods. By selling their own label products within their outlet they compete with their upstream brand suppliers on sales and shelf space. This 'vertical competition' is not confined solely to 'value' categories of products. These days, retailers offer private label goods catering for the value, specialized and premium markets. These developments, and the increasing confidence that consumers have in private labels, have increased the bargaining position and market power of retailers as their labels compete directly with the leading manufacturers' brand and its 'value' alternatives. This unique relationship and the increased role played by private labels in Europe, and more specifically the United Kingdom, raises fundamental questions as to their pro-, and possible anti-, competitive effects. It further highlights the shifting power balance between the producer and distributor and between the private label and branded good. This paper focuses on the effects of private labels, sold in major supermarkets, on retail competition and consumer welfare. In particular, it considers how supermarkets may affect competition due to the fact that they retain control over shelving, in-store promotion and the pricing of branded and own label goods. Furthermore, it reviews the enforcement of European competition laws in a private label environment and the difficulty in balancing the beneficial short-term effects of private labels and their possible, harmful, long-term effects. It subsequently questions whether these difficulties imply a lack of competitive harm or reflect a gap in regulation, as traditional analysis fails to encompass the increased market power of retailers and the existence of vertical competition.

Download or read book Brands Competition Law and IP written by Deven R. Desai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the emerging field of brand law and explores its interaction with the economics of modern branding.

Download or read book Private Label Strategy written by Nirmalya Kumar and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth in private labels has huge implications for managers on both sides.

Download or read book The Antitrust Paradox written by Robert Bork and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important book on antitrust ever written. It shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses.

Download or read book Brand Management written by Paolo Popoli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an original, high-quality collection of chapters about highly topical and important brand management issues, and it shows both theoretical and empiric analysis. The 10 selected chapters are referred, with original contents and rigorous research methodologies, to some important challenges the brand management has to face in the current competitive contexts, characterized by the dominance of the intangible resources and the new information and communication technologies. Written by leading academics, this book is dedicated not only to marketing and management scholars but also to students wanting to investigate the knowledge concerning special fields and special brand management themes. As well to the practitioners who can find a wide reference also to the managerial implication from the strategic and operative perspectives.

Download or read book Brands Competition Law and IP written by Deven R. Desai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brands and brand management have become a central feature of the modern economy and a staple of business theory and business practice. Contrary to the law's conception of trademarks, brands are used to indicate far more than source and/or quality. This volume begins the process of broadening the legal understanding of brands by explaining what brands are and how they function, how trademark and antitrust/competition law have misunderstood brands, and the implications of continuing to ignore the role brands play in business competition. This is the first book to engage with the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective, hence it will be a must-have for all those interested in the phenomenon of brands and how their function is recognized by the legal system. The book integrates both a competition and an intellectual property law dimension and explores the regulatory environment and case law in both Europe and the United States.

Download or read book Trademarks and Brands in Merger Control written by Damiano Canapa and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of intellectual property rights in merger control procedures has not received the attention it warrants. Most research has focused on the assessment of intellectual property rights in anticompetitive conducts rather than on how a firm can monopolise a market by accumulating such assets. This is despite the fact that access to such assets, whether used or unused, is often a key factor, if not the only one, motivating mergers. This book, the first to address trademarks and brands from the perspective of merger control procedure, studies the legal issues of the topic. It provides a comprehensive response to the question of how European and Swiss competition authorities should consider trademarks and brands when assessing a merger. The author's thorough and critical approach addresses topics such as: - the in-depth assessment of the legal and economic foundations of both trademarks and brands, and merger control; - why trademarks and brands may be relevant to the assessment of mergers, including the distinction between trademarks and brands, the origin of the brands' strength according to marketing sciences, and how and why brands may provide market power to their holder; - the conditions under which the assignment or licence of a trademark may qualify as a concentration under the definition of the European Union Merger Regulation or of the Swiss Cartel Act; - the role played by trademarks and brands in the substantive assessment of a merger, including the definition of the relevant markets, different types of mergers, and the invocation of the failing firm defence; - the provision of detailed guidelines describing the possible influence of trademarks and brands on the outcome of the merger assessment; and - the importance of trademarks and brands in the design and assessment of remedies. At every stage of the study, special attention is given to the decisions of both the European Commission and the Swiss Competition Commission. As the first detailed analysis of the role of trademarks and brands in the assessment of mergers, this book constitutes a deep and illuminating answer to the uncertainties regarding the outcomes of the assessment of mergers that derive from the 'more economic approach' prevailing in European Union Law. It cannot fail but capture the interest of practitioners, businesspeople and academics whose work involves competition and intellectual property.

Download or read book The Explosive Growth of Private Labels in North America written by Philip B. Fitzell and published by Global Book Productions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique perspective, beginning in the 19th century, of the growth and change of the food and drug store businesses in the United States, Canada & Mexico. It examines the evolution of the concept of controlled BRAND owned by retailers, wholesalers along with the emergence of the private label concept as a viable profit-maker for trade customers and smaller manufacturers. This analysis tracks the development of the cooperatives and food and drug store chains. The impact of the supermarket concept, the monopoly of manufacturers brands, the restrictions imposed by local, state and legislative actions; the debut of dedicated private label manufacturers; the maturation of the private label industry, all these subjects are covered in this book.

Download or read book Buyer Power and Competition in European Food Retailing written by Roger Clarke and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, experts in the field of retail examine the effects of the contemporary growth in concentration in the European food retailing sector. In particular, the book develops a number of buyer power propositions and builds on the previous work of several of the authors, to consider how the growth of large supermarket chains affects competition in food retailing. The authors outline the theoretical and policy analysis underpinning the work and assess evidence on the size and growth of supermarket chains across the EU. Whilst not entirely critical, they suggest that there is strong evidence in some countries that supermarkets use their buying power to impose unfair terms and conditions on suppliers, particularly affecting small suppliers. The authors use case studies to provide in-depth analysis of four European countries, namely France, Germany, Spain and the UK. The book ends with a discussion of policy issues against a backdrop of likely future trends in concentration in this area.

Download or read book Brands Product Differentiation and EU Competition Law written by Ioannis Lianos and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing written by Francisco J. Martinez-Lopez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume highlights the latest research presented at the 7th International Conference on Research on National Brand & Private Label Marketing (NB&PL2020, Barcelona, Spain). The topics covered include: retailing, private label portfolio and assortment management, marketing of premium store brands, using national brands to exclude (delist) and include, optimal assortment size, consumer store patronage, etc. Several contributions also focus on private label pricing and promotion, especially on the relative pricing of standard and premium private labels, and with regard to the national brands in the assortment. Further questions addressed here include: Should store brands be promoted? If so, what types of promotion should be used? How can private label penetration, especially premium private labels, best be dealt with? Are dual branding and coupons viable options?

Download or read book Antitrust Policy written by Dominick T. Armentano and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Errata slip laid in. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Download or read book The Interrelation Between Private Label Brand Image and Store Image A Systematic Literature Overview written by Jana Defontis and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2,0, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to provide a systematic overview of existing literature, dealing with the concept of private label brand Image and store image and about the studies that have dealt with the interrelation between the two variables. Private label brands (PLBs) have gained tremendously in significance over the past decades. While at their first appearance in the market place in 1920 they only had to face little competition by now numerous large wholesalers offer private labels in a large number of product categories. Since competition has intensified retailers have become more engaged in developing an efficient differentiation strategy. In this context it has been found that the implementation of a private label program can contribute to a number of benefits for retailers as well as for consumers. Alongside an improved bargaining power vis-à-vis manufacturers resulting in lower wholesale prices for national brands (NBs). Private label brands can account for higher margins compared to NBs and they furthermore have the potential to serve as a significant determinant for store differentiation by expanding a retailers' merchandise with a unique alternative that is store specific and thus can contribute to increased store traffic and ultimately to more customers being loyal towards a certain store

Download or read book Buyer Power written by Nicola Mazzarotto and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: