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National brands and store brands: Competition through public quality labels
Author(s) -
Hassan Daniel,
MonierDilhan Sylvette
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/agr.20070
Subject(s) - private label , econlit , quality (philosophy) , agribusiness , competition (biology) , marketing , business , product (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , sign (mathematics) , advertising , value (mathematics) , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , mathematics , political science , ecology , paleontology , philosophy , mathematical analysis , programming language , geometry , medline , epistemology , law , biology , agriculture , machine learning
In this article the authors study one aspect of the proliferation of quality labels in the agro‐food sector: the coexistence of two signs on one same product and its consequences on the value of each sign. The context is that of the competition between national brands and private labels on a certain number of goods carrying a public quality label. The authors show that the value of a sign decreases when it is combined with another one on the same product. This result is verified for six products involving four quality labels. This allows for an interpretation of retailers' strategy concerning their private labels. [EconLit Classification: D120]. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 22: 21–30, 2006.