Neil Harrison, Director of Private Label Products for RS Electronics
On this episode of the RS Expert Advice podcast, Neil Harrison, Director of Private Label Products for RS Electronics plays a game of “Myth or Fact.” We asked RS customers to send some of the myths and disparagements they hear most often about private label products in the industrial sector and we do some fact checking to help set the record straight.
This is Neil’s second time on the RS Expert Advice Podcast, and you can listen to his first episode “Roles and Benefits of Private Label Products for B2B Industrial Customers” here.
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Pressed for time? Jump directly to specific sections in the podcast:
2:21 – Myth or Fact: Private label products are cheaply made, targeted at customers who only care about price and can’t be trusted for high-risk applications.
5:37 – Myth or Fact: Industrial private label products are made from lower-quality materials and manufactured to less stringent standards than leading brands.
7:57 – Myth or Fact: In both the consumer and industrial spaces, private-label products are often manufactured by the same suppliers to the same standards as name brands, and that much of the price difference between the two is due to marketing and branding costs.
9:18 – Myth or Fact: Industrial private label brands do not have the same functionality as leading brands. You can only find private label versions of simple products for a limited number of simple applications.
12:01 – Any last words of advice for engineers, builders, designers and maintainers out there considering using private label components in their applications?
