NEW YORK—The Private Label Manufacturers Association has announced a new and unprecedented virtual event for February 1-5, 2021: PLMA Live! Presents Private Label Week. The announcement comes as the association has found it necessary to cancel its 2020 Private Label Trade Show in light of continuing uncertainties concerning the health and safety of participants at
NEW YORK —Former Walmart president and CEO Bill Simon will be a featured speaker at PLMA’s first Virtual Washington Conference, to be held October 6-7, the association said Wednesday. Simon’s presentation will focus on Retailing and Economy, looking at the unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing retailers and their suppliers as they make their business plans
NEW YORK – The board of directors of the Private Label Manufacturers Association has named Peggy Davies acting president. Her appointment follows the death of president Brian Sharoff, who passed away last month after a brief illness. Since 2016, Davies served as PLMA vice president of association relations. “For four decades, Brian was the face
NEW YORK – Private Label Manufacturers Association president Brian Sharoff died on Saturday after a brief illness, according to Tim Simmons, the trade group’s vice president of communications. Sharoff was named president of PLMA in 1981, shortly after the association was founded. During his tenure the PLMA’s membership grew from two hundred manufacturers, suppliers, and
NEW YORK — Sales of store brand merchandise in the mass channel (mass merchants, club stores and dollar stores) increased last year on a dollar basis and a unit basis, the Private Label Manufacturers Associated (PLMA) said on Wednesday, citing sales data from Nielsen. Dollar sales rose 9.3% in 2017 and unit sales increased 9.1%,