While service providers continue to overwhelmingly prefer to use a manufacturer’s premium brand (79 percent in 2010, up from 71 percent in 2009), attitudes toward private label and second line brands have shifted in the past year. Fewer service providers reported a preference for private label and second line brands in 2010, dropping four and five points, respectively, as the chart below illustrates.
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