Horizontally Differentiated Store Brands: Production Outsourcing to National Brand Manufacturers

We study a retailer's strategic decision with regard to outsourcing the production of such types of store brands (SBs) to national brand (NB) manufacturers. The wholesale price of NB is assumed to be set by the manufacturer, while that of the SB is assumed to be set by the retailer. When a reta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shun Shindo, Nobuo Matsubayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/949470