Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

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DCFC79 wrote: »

Maybe its been discussed but does anyone know who makes the Logik range of electrical items for the DSGI group

thanks

Most of the DSGI own brand electrical goods are made by Vestel. Can't post a link but just Google 'Vestel'

"Vestel Group is comprised of 24 companies operating in manufacturing, technology development, marketing, and distribution fields in the consumer electronics, IT, digital technologies, and household appliances, with € 3.7 billion turnover. Vestel account for 21% of the total TV, 10% of the LCD TV, 25% of the digital set-top boxes, and 10% of the household appliances markets in Europe. "

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learning_to_drive

oldsam wrote: »

If you bringing home the bacon from a supermarket they may be all packed by the same firm , There is a bacon packing factory in Malton, Yorkshire which carried the job, Most of the products for the only difference was price - Skinless Sausages 75p for Asda- Morrison's charged 99p , Well that's we found in the box when their staff put the wrong labels on the product .

Can't be Morrisons' they are vertically integrated so have their own packhouses and abbatoirs.

learning_to_drive

2e1hsb wrote: »

I have one of those on my desk right now. I'm quite privileged that I live 100 yards from a Lidl, lots of cheap food there. :T

I have noticed that a lot of supermarkets put their cheap stock either way too high up, or so low down you have to crawl on the floor for the one at the back. I think it's some kind of "Humiliation for the poor" personally.

Boyfriend used to work for a large supermarket chain, if I recall correctly, he said the special offers shelves are filled twice as often as the normal shelves, to encourage more people to buy it. (remember, it wouldn't be on offer if they weren't making a substantial profit on it).

I work in drugs, but I assume the same applies for any produce: If you're gonna buy the expensive paracetamol, look at the Product Licence holder, these are who made this one. Now look at the one on the cheapest. 6 or 7 times out of 10, I find they're the same company. I have a friend works at one of the companies that makes the drugs, and he claims that they ARE all the same, just in different packaging.

BIG brands like Panadol may make their own, but at the end of the day, the active ingredient in it is the same, otherwise they wouldn't make it.

Or they could be filled twice as often because it sells twice as quickly? A lot of the offers are 2 for or BOGOF where people take two rather than one?

Sometimes, the top top offers are loss leaders, meaning the company loses money but relies on you picking up the rest of your shop there so they do make profit on the other lines that you purchase. Its used to get people into store.

learning_to_drive

bilbo85 wrote: »

Hi

Just wanted to say that my mum and dads farm in Hampshire supplies eggs for lots of companies including Marks and Spencer, Sainsburys, Waitrose and Morrisons.

All the free range eggs are put together and the best third of the batch (best colour/ size/ no fluff/ no marks or spots) are picked up by M&S and Waitrose because they pay a higher rate per egg. The rest is divided between farmers market and local retailers, Sainsburys and Morrisons and another company called 3663. The free range eggs are packaged as such in the shops and shops can charge more for them.

The caged hen eggs are dealt with in the same way, but are not distributed to Marks and Spencers/ Waitrose or farmers market (i dont know where they get their caged eggs from but its not us). The caged hens still walk around though and lay their eggs in basically the same way as the free range, the only main difference on our farm is the type of feed given to them is different, caged hens get cheaper feed.

M+S / Waitrose don't sell eggs from caged hens I believe, hence the lack of an order.

Suzanna1004

learning_to_drive wrote: »

M+S / Waitrose don't sell eggs from caged hens I believe, hence the lack of an order.

Hi, I used to work for M&S and they definatley only sell free range.

Stevehillpaper

Stephen_Baxter wrote: »

Hi found a great one! The big photopaper companies like Epson and HP don't make their own paper. A company called papermilldirect.com makes it for some of the big companies. Found this out from a mate who works for the parent company AND they sell direct to the public at a hell of a lot cheaper!

Fill your boots! :rolleyes:

Sorry chum, NOT true! I am a paper consultant and environmental conservationist, and I write books about paper and it's sources. It is true that printer manufacturers do not make their own paper (different industries, i.e. do Ford or Vauxhall make tyres?) but HP paper is generally made by one of the Mondi group mills and has to go through very exacting trials and meet huge specification requirements. If for any reason the equipment manufacturer falls-out with the paper mill, and yes I do mean MILL, these guys buy tonnes and tonnes of the stuff, they can switch suppliers, and often have a back-up mill just dreaming of taking on the business. Epson paper is likewise of very high standard, but again, while they do not make it themselves they buy it from favoured mills who specialise in that sort of thing.
To save money on copier/printer paper, go for Tesco own brand. It will only be 75g/m² instead of the standard 80g/m², but because it is made from Eucalyptus wood it will be as 'thick' (microns) as the 80g/m² that the main brands offer as standard.
Plus you have to build-in the fact that you get what you pay for. The higher the specification, the better it willwork on a particular machine. HP, Canon Colorlok Technology, and Epson best grades are all similar and work exceptionally well on colour-print inkjet printers. Smooth, opaque, bulky, with excellent colour rendition. You will NOT get this from cheaper brands, not even Staples bog-standard version.
If you intend to do colour photo reproduction there is little to coose between the brands once you take basis weight (g/m²) and gloss levels in to account.
Finally, if you have a laser printer, DO NOT put coated inkjet paper through it in an attempt to get good cheap photos. One, it will mess up your printer, two, the quaility of the reproduction just does not make it!
Hope this helps, and puts the record straight. Oh, ref. papermilldirect.com, they are just another on-line 'shop' selling paper from wherever they choose to get it. They DO NOT make the paper themselves.:cool:

dan536

geordie_joe wrote: »

Nobody in this world ever stopped speaking their native language because they got sick of it. They stop speaking their native language because their country gets invaded by another and the best way to get by is to learn to speak your conquers language.

Without wishing to derail this thread. Please do everyone a favour and stop correcting grammar, syntax and/or spelling when it is clear that you:

a) Cannot use apostrophes correctly (see your original post).
b) Misuse words yourself. See above - 'conquers' should be conquerors (the people who have done the conquering).

That is all.

Actually - just to add something to the thread - I used to work in a food packaging warehouse (many years ago) - but many of the 'foods' being processed were for different companies (Bird's Eye, Iceland) but were made from exactly the same ingredients, but maybe just in slightly different amounts. Potato waffles are one example I can remember. It's probably exactly the same now.

su4stu

Baxters make jam, pickled beetroot, soup and chutnies for M&S and Sainsburys. Used to work for them.

Stuartli

DCFC79 wrote: »

Anyone confirm for me whether grundig and goodmans freeview boxes are made by the same firm, the 2 look similar in terms of where the ports are on the back, the black top case and where the logo is on the top case

Yes! Bush is another brand name owned by the company, Alba (now in the control of Argos), although it has once or twice rebranded Humax PVRs under the Bush name.

Not unsurprisingly one such PVR gained a 100 per cent reliability rating from a well known consumer magazine's readers' survey (don't ask me which one).

See: http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/shortage-of-freesat-sd-boxes-continues for instance.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alba_%28electronics%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_International

flowerfairy159

I just brought some tinned tomatoes Tesco value brand but when i took the label off (to recycle tin and paper seperately) i found a label for



Napolina Chopped Tomatoes

So its not just brand stuff...they re-label items as well!!!