Private-label products shed low-quality image in China

Retail business shifts as customers become less loyal to foreign brands

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Alibaba's Taobao Choice stores, such as this outlet in Hangzhou, sell many private-label products.

NAOKI MATSUDA, Nikkei staff writer

SHANGHAI -- Private-label products are proliferating in China as their quality improves, and they are increasingly seen as delivering good value.

In the past, many domestic products were unpopular in China because they were seen as shoddy. Imports, by contrast, though more expensive, were seen as top notch. But the era of blind loyalty to foreign brands is ending as consumers begin to notice that Chinese companies, too, can make fine products.

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