Following the trend of vertical development in the retailing industry, the downstream wholesalers or retailers begin to sell their private brand products to compete with the national brand products of manufacturers. The purpose of this study aims to construct an oligopolistic game theoretical model of channel competition to explore the factors of success of this private brand product strategy. It is shown that if the "sales of private brand products" or the "total channel sales" are sure to increase, the retailers can benefit from the private brand strategy. These conclusions are also in accord with the observed practice.