White label is the same generic product sold to many brands with just your logo added, cheapest, fastest, zero differentiation. Private label is a factory's base formulation customised and sold exclusively to you (your shade, your scent, your packaging), a real middle ground most Indian D2C brands start on. Contract manufacturing is your own formula made only for you, giving you the most control and the highest cost, time and MOQ.
3 resources, 3 link-checked.
The single clearest three-way comparison we found, laid out side by side rather than as three separate glossary entries.
From brightinnovationlabs.com by Bright Innovation Labs
Written for total beginners deciding which model to test an idea with, the exact stage most first-time D2C founders are at.
From dropship.io by Dropship.io
Written by an actual private-label manufacturer, so the explanations are grounded in what factories can realistically offer at each tier.
From indigoprivatelabel.com by Indigo Private Label
The same ground, over in Build the product, our Starting Up track.
