Certain websites adopt white labels for facilitating a popular brand to provide a service
The name (white label products/services) has come from their packaging image. This packaging allows marketers to give their own trade dress to the products. The history of white label can be traced back to the era of vinyl records. At that time, DJs used to detach label from a trendy record so that the name of the track developer didnt get divulge to their rivals. As a result of this, white label record surfaced.
When generic electronic items such as televisions and DVD players are produced at the massive scale, the process is called white label production. Some companies sell their products under a sub-brand name that is used exclusively by them. For instance Brand-A may sell the same model-A of DVD while Brand-B may sell it as a model-B.
White labels are used by some websites to facilitate a successful brand for offering its services without investing in the development of infrastructure and technology. For instance Amazon.co.uk has been running the website of Waterstone’s until recently. Similarly, LoveFilm runs the DVD Rental services of Tesco. Most of the store brand or private brand products in supermarkets are provided by companies which sell to more than one supermarket, bringing change in labels only. Moreover, some manufacturers produce inexpensive or low-cost generic brand labels but they put the name of product, like Cola.
Sometimes, large banks take the responsibility of running smaller banks’ credit-card operations. The bigger bank charges fee from the smaller one to issue and process the credit cards as white label cards. 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.



