Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

shajanscaria

I am working in a deserts/yogurts factory. We are supplying to Many High Street business the same product. I can confirm that there is any difference between these products. We are making the same quality products to M&S and Kwiksave! The difference is only on the labels and sleeves. M&S and TESCO is more concerened about the quality checks compare to other Supermarkets! That is the only difference! A line starting to run at 6 '0' clock with M&S products, for example. The product may not change until the end of the shift, but the company names will change more than one time.

GeoThermal

Seakay wrote:

Anyone know who will be taking over now that Golden Wonder have crashed?

The new owners might retain the contracts.

George_Bray

NewToThis wrote:

I too have heard that Clinique make the skin preparations and that Estee Lauder make the cosmetics (for M&S)

That could make sense because, at least when I did some work for Estee Lauder some years ago, Clinique and Estee Lauder were part of the same company/group.

Regards
George

Horasio

In 1987, Kelloggs Bran Flakes did some market research in my area, leaving me packet A and packet B to try. I could immediately tell the difference between them, preferring the Kelloggs version. The tight so and so wanted my half used packet back too!! I don't know much about own brands today but it put me off back then.

Nowadays, I do buy own brand muesli as opposed to Alpen which is very sweet, even the lower sugar variety.

Milk is milk so go for the cheapest, what is this filtered stuff anyway?

Low fat spread/olive oil is no different to the branded ones either.

Butter is different, Lurpack is miles different to Anchor.

I used to be a premium make up and cleanser person. These days toners, moisturisers etc are just as good at a more modest price.

megsykins

UK007BullDog wrote:

First of all I would like to point out that Aldi and Lidl are cheap food and goods discounters who are from Germany and are treating their staff cheaply too. have you seen the turn around of staff in their shops? Each time I go there they have new people working there. In Germany staff are taking them to court.

Aldi have been rated by The Times as one of the best graduate employers (22nd - which makes them the best in the field of retail.) https://www.top100graduateemployers.com
Don't know how they treat the shelf-stackers, but I've heard nothing but good stuff from people who've worked for them.

kaan_is

Have tried different stores...for milk .i.e./tesco,aldi,locals ,etc....find Azda the best.

before_hollywood

our jmb hoover (index own brand from when it existed) uses the same bags as various dirt devil ones.
and i think the alba group owns dirt devil (???)
makes sense as to where the majority of index own brand electricals used to come from (i had a theory back then but no real basis)

haven't_got_a_clue!

Ayesha wrote:

To reiterate what others have said - Cadbury's definitely do not make chocolates for Thornton's! There is a clear marked difference in taste! It is true though, having also worked for Thornton's, that they make chocolates for Marks & Spencer's although there are differences in appearance.

At university, and having done a project on Aldi, I was informed by my lecturer that Aldi's cornflakes are made by Kellogg's! Although Kellogg's famous strapline is, 'We don't make cereals for anyone else'!

I was also informed that Heinz make supermarket own brand baked beans although own brand versions are slightly watered down.

I work in Kellogg's Sales Dept. Kellogg's did make cornflakes for Aldi for a very short period a few years ago, but only for a few months. Since this one-off, they haven't made cereal for anybody else, so strapline is true!

martinw_3

i used to work in a dairy factory for st ivel ltd, amongst many things we made yoghurts for nearly every supermarket there was, inc marks and spencer.
m+s always insisted on better ingredients.
but the other reason m+s stood out was because they would visit the factory on a regular basis and would be very particular in regards to hygiene standards. st ivel would worry more about m+s, than they would over the health and safety executive or enviromental health.
we would rarely see any other retailers.
so by buying m+s you were generally garaunteed a good quality product

cheers martinw

cindyted

I was one of the Market Researchers who put out trials for Kelloggs. usually we gave out 4 packets, the main objective was to see if the respondent could tell the difference between Shops own brand and Kelloggs.
We were not being tight by taking the packets away, it was in the job instructions from Kelloggs, and as such had to be adhered to. I believe they did not want people sitting with 2 bowls comparing the two products. Anyway in the end people knew which one was shops own and which one was Kelloggs as the last 2 boxes had the brand name on them.

I would never go for the cheapest milk, Organic is best, tests have proved it.

CCStar wrote:

In 1987, Kelloggs Bran Flakes did some market research in my area, leaving me packet A and packet B to try. I could immediately tell the difference between them, preferring the Kelloggs version. The tight so and so wanted my half used packet back too!! I don't know much about own brands today but it put me off back then.

Nowadays, I do buy own brand muesli as opposed to Alpen which is very sweet, even the lower sugar variety.

Milk is milk so go for the cheapest, what is this filtered stuff anyway?

Low fat spread/olive oil is no different to the branded ones either.

Butter is different, Lurpack is miles different to Anchor.

I used to be a premium make up and cleanser person. These days toners, moisturisers etc are just as good at a more modest price.