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  • Building on Success: Your Feedback Powers What's Next at FMI

    Oct 16, 2025 2 min read
    Results of the FMI member satisfaction survey show where FMI has succeeded and how we can continue to improve your membership ...

  • Why Private Brands Leaders Are Feeling More Confident

    Sep 12, 2025 3 min read
    Respondents in this year's survey said private brands are extremely or very important to their organizations. In fact, 86% of the industry plans to moderately or significantly increase private brand investments in the next two ...

  • Can Shoppers Name That Private Brand?

    Jun 23, 2025 3 min read
    Name recognition and recall for private brands is a big deal because historically manufacturer brands had the upper hand, given their big promotion and advertising budgets....

  • Why Business Planning Works Better Together

    Jun 4, 2025 2 min read
    The FMI Annual Business Conference is built for business planning. Over three days, it brings together senior-level retail teams and suppliers across all key categories — fresh, grocery, health and wellness, private brands, general merchandise and ...

  • Transfiguring Food Industry Terms: Discover FMI's Updated Glossary

    Jan 17, 2025 2 min read
    The food industry loves their acronyms and has a unique set of terms. We've worked to re-build and update the Food Industry Glossary to help define terms and provide a modern website ...

  • A Game Plan to Maintain Strong Private Brands Momentum

    Oct 15, 2024 3 min read
    The newest Power of Private Brands report — Industry Strategies to Sustain Momentum — outlines the Industry's take on actionable steps to maintain positive trends, tackle challenges and provide concrete strategies....

  • Gen Z Shoppers and the Power of Private Brands

    Jul 29, 2024 2 min read
    Wandering through the aisles, my attention was caught by the packaging of my store's private brand. Gen Z is reshaping the grocery landscape, favoring private brands with quality, taste and ...

  • How to Make Private Brands Even More Powerful

    Jun 17, 2024 3 min read
    FMI’s newly released Power of Private Brands 2024: What's Ahead for Shoppers and Private Brands report identifies upbeat shopper perceptions and buying behaviors, based on a national consumer ...

  • Five Key Directions to Advance Private Brands

    Feb 15, 2024 3 min read
    Private brands have quickened the pace of innovation to be on target for changing shopper needs and have provided exceptional ...

  • Unexpected Key Finding in Private Brands Research

    Oct 10, 2023 3 min read
    FMI's newly released Power of Private Brands report paints an upbeat picture of how consumers feel about private ...