Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

ally_g_2

While in Costco last week an assistant told me their 'Lakeland' own brand batteries are made by Duracell, (£9.39 for 48 AA).

croyle1970

Walkers actually make the supermarket crisps as well as there own brands, they produce for Mark & Spencer, Tesco, Asda and even kiwk Save, the only difference being the flavourings!!!!!!!!!!!!

rfburke

Asda petrol is made by shell, the only difference is that they add less additives, which only make any difference if you drive a very high performance car like a Ferrari F1.
My friends dad works for shell at their refinery, shell have broke down their various business into cost centers "refining, exploration and commercial" and found that their refining business was selling petrol to asda cheap than to its own commercial wing.

lipidicman

Marigold123 wrote:

Sorry, but 'real' soap is made with whatever fat you choose to make it with. All fats will saponify to make soap, but use different quantities of sodium hydroxide.

However, I can quite understand that as a vegetarian you would object to using soap made from animal fats. (Though of course after it has been through the saponification process it is changed chemically, and is no longer actually fat.) I agree that this is something that soap manufacturers ought to put on their labels, as it is relevant to those eating a vegetarian diet. (Though it's perhaps more strictly a vegan issue, as many vegetarians still wear leather shoes.)

Personally my concerns would be more with the added chemicals, preservatives, scents, etc, being bad for you, but this is only my view.

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EDIT: Sorry, lipidicman. Didn't see you'd already answered that post.

S'ok, your answer is probably better than mine, I was being a bit flippant!

trickytrolleys

I bought a Goodmans stereo and then noticed the exact same one being sold in NEXT under the name of Morphy Richards!!

Robbie_2

spuckle wrote:

Kelloggs UK don't make cereal for anyone else here, but Kelloggs elsewhere supply own brands cereals in the UK.

Kellogs certainly make some cereals for Asda. It was reported in the Daily Telegraph business section a couple of years ago that Asda had struck a deal with Kelloggs to supply them with cereals. I know for a certainty that Asda's Crispy Nut Corn Flakes are the same as Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes: I've done the taste test.

pinkvixen

I can vouch that biscuits are made by the same manufacturer for most brands such as Spar, Forbouys, Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda and.. M&S. Working in the biscuit factory at various levels for 14 years, I witnessed this from start of production to finish.

Working as a biscuit packer on the custard cream plant, the line would have 8 packing machines running, the first one or two would be for one brand, the next another, and so on. There is one major difference though, the use by dates were far shorter for the 'better brands' such as M&S and therefore shelf life was shorter, resulting in fresher biscuits.

Having said that, I had a theory on the freshness of a single biscuit that might slip the net. OK, a row of biscuits are fed into the packing machine. The packet containing the biscuit is faulty, it goes into a metal tray for stripping. The packet is stripped and put into a poly tray and taken to the cold store. When there is a breakdown on the line, to keep production levels going, the polytray comes out of the cold store and and the biscuit is fed amongst others into the packing machine. The biscuit in question ends up in a faulty packet, which is stripped, poly trayed, clod stored..... and so on. The life of that biscuit could be months old before it gets away to the shops.
This is an extreme theory as probably 99.9% of biscuits are fresh in the pack but you get the drift??

In answer to the original question though, McVities biscuits are the same as major as well as minor brands but the freshness is the difference.

koala_sister

My fridge freezer says Hotpoint Zanussi, so who really made it?

Concern user

ilovefreebies_2

Philious Fog make tescos own range of doritos

byb3

I remember being told by a friend that Asda were the skimpiest supermarket when it came down to buying meat. I'll try and get the list off him about which supermarkets bought the best quality meat, but I definitely remember Asda being bottom.