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Private Brands
Federated Group helps clients develop private brands to market to consumers
as less expensive alternatives to name-brand competitors. By Kathryn Jones
company profile
Federated Group Inc.
www.fedgroup.com
Headquarters: Arlington Heights, Ill.
Employees: 150
Services: Sales and marketing
Dave LaPlante: “We offer retailers
and wholesalers private brands to
sell to their consumer that deliver
the same quality as the national
brand at a much lower cost.”
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or those supermarket consumers who are grateful to find a marketing, design and labeling services
less-expensive alternative to a name-brand product but to clients through its wholly owned sub-
have always wondered where on earth these items come sidiary, SailPointe Creative, and supply
from, Federated Group Inc. has the answer. “The compa- chain logistics through another sub-
ny was founded in 1928 around the concept that independent sidiary, Golden Bay. “We are a sales and
grocery retailers needed a solution to compete with the large retailers with marketing company doing business with
private-label brands,” President and CEO Dave LaPlante says. “That pri- retailers, wholesalers and foodservice
vate-label brand was Red & White. Federated Group owns it and still distributors to assist them in their corpo-
sells it today successfully not just in the United States, but [globally].” rate brand needs,” LePlante emphasizes.