Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

kezerb

shokadelika wrote: »

Same with bar soap used to use imperial leather can't now biggest ingredient in all bar soap sodium tallowate (cow,pig,goat fat you are washing yourself with lard!) a host of preservatives (to stop it going off)and parfum to mask the lovely (sic!) natural smell.
Real soap is made with olive,palm oil or other nut seed oil and has little or no preservatives.

Sorry to drag up an old comment but I make my own soap and no I don't use fat to make it. I do however use Sodium Hydroxide (Drain cleaner!!) as do a lot of other home soap makers. Which would you rather wash yourself with? Lard that has proven over the years to work and also softens your skin, or sodium hydroxide which, if some bozo mixes up the oils and lye incorrectly is potentially hazordous.
I also add scents to my homemade from scratch soaps as the smell (even when oils I use are Olive, Coconut, Avacado and I also use a bit of shea butter) is vile!

sillywilly

flowerfairy159 wrote: »

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!!!

So Tesco Value tomatoes are actually Napolina chopped tomatoes? Hmm that's a lie!
I remember getting some Tesco value beans, peeling back the label and underneath was a Heinz label!

The thing is I have actually tried Tesco Value beans and tomatoes and there is no way they are "premium" brands re packaged as Value products. They look, smell and taste completely different, funnily enough, cheap.

Bookworm63

flowerfairy159 wrote: »

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!!!

Strange, I've used both in the past and I would say that the Value ones are definitely more watery...

chigozieo

3663 spells food on a telephone keypad, hence the company name.

wiganshale

I've got as far as page 19 and getting repeated deja vu.
In summary: perfumes and clothes are made by small firms, often out east, titivated by name companies over here and then sold on for for re-branding by supermarkets and designer brand, at varying prices.
Celebrity name brands are only different in that they collect royalties for using their names.
(reminds me of a famous TV football star who was embarassed by having it made clear that he hadn't read his own "auto"biography.)
Supermarkets don't make their own stuff but buy from anyone who'll sell it, including big names such as Heinz and Kellogs, but the quality standards may be lowered.
M&S are like the supermarkets but reverse the quality control angle and charge for it.
Many products are made on the same assembly line but are simply put in different packaging, whilst some will have small changes in the base product, such as the type of oil added.
You can check if two canned products are from the same source because of an imprint on the base. E.g. corned beef from Argentina, which is labelled over here.
ditto generic medicines can the same as name brands, so look at the PL (product licence) number on the packaging.
Similar things happen with TV sets and other electrical goods but, whilst some items are identical, apart from the name tags, others may have better quality components e.g. Plasma screens may be of differing quality in otherwise identical TV's (no details of how to tell).
There's a lot of idiosyncratic stuff worth reading such as the pea-green spiders but my brain can only hold so much info and this much will do for now.

wiganshale

One thing, which has irritated me, is a number of " I like Tesco xxxxx's , they are simply delicious". These may be genuine comments but they are not helpful and they are highly suspicious.
If people could be trusted, then a new thread where various brands of washer were listed, would be useful.
As someone mentioned "Which" can only sample a small number of machines and they have to use the ones supplied, but different people are expressing opposing views on the same models.
Perhaps if readers could add a "5 years and still running" for each model, we could get a big enough sample to do some number crunching for objective rather than subjective comparisons. Even a comparison of named manufacturer's might be useful.

wiganshale

Stevehillpaper raises an interesting thought for a thread. A list of factory shops such as the kesteven chocolate shop but preferably on-line. I don't fancy driving to Norfolk for cheap choc but it'd be nice to bulk buy cheap A4 copier paper.

hugh-m

hi,
I work in the aircraft maintenance industry, not quite the same subject I know, but my company sources parts for aircraft, if the manufacturer [Boeing,Airbus,Lockheed etc] can't supply the parts then we ring round the world to see if the part is in stock somewhere or find a company approved to make/overhaul the part, if that fails & we have the capability we get authorization to make/overhaul the part in house.
Almost all manufactured goods have many parts supplied by component manufacturers they are just assembled in one place & given a Brand name.
A friend of mine worked in a small factory near Cambridge pressing car suspension & sub frames for Rover, Jaguar & Ford!! & I worked at a company making floors & interior parts for many different aircraft manufacturers.

babs2008

wiganshale wrote: »

One thing, which has irritated me, is a number of " I like Tesco xxxxx's , they are simply delicious". These may be genuine comments but they are not helpful and they are highly suspicious.
If people could be trusted, then a new thread where various brands of washer were listed, would be useful.
As someone mentioned "Which" can only sample a small number of machines and they have to use the ones supplied, but different people are expressing opposing views on the same models.
Perhaps if readers could add a "5 years and still running" for each model, we could get a big enough sample to do some number crunching for objective rather than subjective comparisons. Even a comparison of named manufacturer's might be useful.

Isn't this the food shopping and groceries board though???

sillywilly

wiganshale wrote: »

I've got as far as page 19 and getting repeated deja vu.
In summary: perfumes and clothes are made by small firms, often out east, titivated by name companies over here and then sold on for for re-branding by supermarkets and designer brand, at varying prices.
Celebrity name brands are only different in that they collect royalties for using their names.
(reminds me of a famous TV football star who was embarassed by having it made clear that he hadn't read his own "auto"biography.)
Supermarkets don't make their own stuff but buy from anyone who'll sell it, including big names such as Heinz and Kellogs, but the quality standards may be lowered.
M&S are like the supermarkets but reverse the quality control angle and charge for it.
Many products are made on the same assembly line but are simply put in different packaging, whilst some will have small changes in the base product, such as the type of oil added.
You can check if two canned products are from the same source because of an imprint on the base. E.g. corned beef from Argentina, which is labelled over here.
ditto generic medicines can the same as name brands, so look at the PL (product licence) number on the packaging.
Similar things happen with TV sets and other electrical goods but, whilst some items are identical, apart from the name tags, others may have better quality components e.g. Plasma screens may be of differing quality in otherwise identical TV's (no details of how to tell).
There's a lot of idiosyncratic stuff worth reading such as the pea-green spiders but my brain can only hold so much info and this much will do for now.

And your point is.....????? ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :T

Nice start.