Professor John Stanton of Saint Joseph’s University has been teaching on the SJU food marketing faculty since 1984. He has also held executive and consulting positions with companies involved in manufacturing, as well as retailing with Tengelmann in Germany, and in advertising. Notably, he contributed to the development of PLMA’s Executive Program at SJU in the early 2000s and was responsible for the creation of graduate level courses in private label sales and marketing strategy—among the first their kind to be offered by a major university.