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Private Label Services

UL Solutions’ private label and store brand solutions support innovation while helping you drive differentiation, profitability and consumer satisfaction.

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The private-label marketplace

Retailers appreciate private-label goods for their potential for optimized production to suit consumer demand. Retailers can reduce advertising costs and exert better control over the supply chain. Private-label goods also often cost less to manufacture and transport, allowing retailers to pass the savings on to consumers. Those savings make private-label products popular with consumers, as well. People gravitate toward private labels because they offer quality products at competitive prices. Private-label product sales have grown along with e-commerce, and they also tend to thrive during challenging economic times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just like name-brand goods, many private-label products require testing and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance certification before they can enter the North American and other markets. In addition, testing and certification can help mitigate certain risks that come with creating and selling private-label products.

Offerings

UL Solutions offers solutions to help your private-label brand compete with national brands and increase customer brand loyalty. UL’s private label testing and analysis services can help you and your suppliers comply with national and international safety and quality regulations. Our industry knowledge and expertise can help you improve your consumer product experience, achieve higher ratings on your products, manage quality and product development costs and stand out among competitors.

UL Solutions’ quality assurance services help you develop products comparable, equivalent or superior to the national brand to meet and exceed your customers’ expectations. Our laboratories have full analytical, microbiological, physical, shelf-life and performance testing capabilities to help verify that your store-brand and private-label products comply with such regulatory and standard bodies as the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Pharmacopeia Convention (USP), ASTM International, the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC), AOAC International, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

UL’s private-label solutions include:

Quality compliance testing
Regulatory compliance testing
Performance testing
Claims substantiation
Label reviews
Shelf-life and stability
Product specification development
CAPA management
Sensory testing, consumer studies, and focus groups
Protocol development

Audits and certifications

Sustainable solutions

Ethical business practices

Health-conscious solutions

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UL Solutions has a global team of certified and trained auditors who can audit and certify facilities for:

Good Manufacturing Practices audits, either under UL Solutions' programs, such as UL’s Retail Certification program or National Brand Certification program or as accredited bodies of well established schemes, such as:
Global Retailer Manufacturer Alliance (GRMA) Certification Program
Supplement Safety and Compliance Initiative (SSCI) audits
UL Solutions and Natural Products Association (NPA) Certification Program

UL Solutions has a global team of certified and trained auditors who can audit and certify facilities for:

Good Manufacturing Practices audits, either under UL Solutions' programs, such as UL’s Retail Certification program or National Brand Certification program or as accredited bodies of well established schemes, such as:
Global Retailer Manufacturer Alliance (GRMA) Certification Program
Supplement Safety and Compliance Initiative (SSCI) audits
UL Solutions and Natural Products Association (NPA) Certification Program

At UL Solutions, our product testing team will work with you every step of the way from concept to completion. Learn more about how our services for your private label’s products can position your products competitively in the marketplace and reduce risk.

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