1.   All of the nonperishable items were national brand products.

2.   Starting with a spectacular seizure of thousands of leading brand products, the US Food and Drug Administration has begun cracking down on misleading food labelling.

3.   Buyers worked closely with suppliers, both new and established, to identify opportunities and develop exciting new Sainsbury brand products.

4.   -- No cigarette brand products would be placed in movies.

5.   But for Wal-Mart, the real value of private-label merchandise may be its usefulness in driving down the prices for brand products.

6.   Designer Holdings would give underwear maker Warnaco about a third of the manufacturing and distribution of Calvin Klein brand products, reported the Wall Street Journal.

7.   For consumers the news of cheaper brand products will go some way toward alleviating long-held suspicions that manufacturers and retailers alike fix prices for goods.

8.   Hardie said to improve its U.K. performance, W.H. Smith will refocus its brand products and is experimenting in London with stores carrying different products and with different layouts.

9.   It retained the Monroe shock absorber business and the packaging business that makes Hefty brand products.