White Label Program Name Comes from Picture of a White-Label Made on Package where Marketer Can Put Its Trade Dress
March 23rd, 2010Some websites provides white labels to successful brands to enable them concentrate on services
The name has originated from the white labels image on the packaging where the trade dress of the marketer finds place. The origin dates back to vinyl records. At that time, DJs used to take out the label from a known record, concealing the actual source of that record from other DJs. The removal of labels from DJ records popularizes the term white label record.
When generic electronic items such as televisions and DVD players are produced at the massive scale, the process is called white label production. A number of companies keep a sub-brand for their products and these brands are particularly used by them. For example, you can sell a DVD player model-A from brand-A, which is also sold as model-B by brand-B.
Some websites provides white label programs to successful brands to enable them concentrate on services rather than investing in the creation of technology and infrastructure establishment. To illustrate, until recently, Waterstones website was run by Amazon.co.uk, and LoveFilm run the DVD Rental services of TESCO. A majority of store brand or supermarket private brand products are offered by companies which change only the labels of the products and then sell them to various supermarkets. Besides, there are some manufacturers who develop generic brand labels of low cost bearing merely the products name (Cola).
Credit-card operations are occasionally outsourced by smaller banks to larger banks. Cards are issued and processed by larger banks in the form of white label cards, usually for a fee. This, in turn, enables smaller banks to brand credit-cards as their own without any need to make any considerable infrastructure investment, which would otherwise lead to excessive overhead.
