Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

troll_moomin

I work for L'Oreal and Lancome is actually one of their umbrella brands. Whether they use the same ingredients to make the same creams, I am not sure.

sandi7

Tescos own brand dishwasher tablets are exactly the same as their value brand, sorry cant remeber the tesco brand price but the value were £1.99 i think, think they were at least a pound chepaer!!

kickstart_3

Does anyone have any info on dog food, dog treats and biscuits? I would love to know if anyone makes the top brands and does the same in a supermarket brand (would save me a fortune!);)

WhiteHorse

Many years ago, I worked for Trading Standards (it was called 'Consumer Protection' back then). In that capacity, I visited quite a few food manufacturers.

In most cases the story was the same - they made products for a variety of retailers, simply inserting the same product into different packaging.

Several did however tell me that they made different 'grades' (ie qualities) of the same product, retailers specifying the desired quality.

Sus1e

Al_Inshearah wrote: »

This may be a posting of the obvious to most of you, but there is some people that are not aware that many car companies produce car under differant brands that are effectivelly based on the same design and just packaged differant to appeal to differant market segment. The following is not an exhaustive (sic) list, but mearly examples (cheapest car to the right)

• Audi TT = Audi A3 Mk1= VW Golf Mk4= VW Beetle = Skoda Octavia Mk1= Seat Leon
• Saab 9-3 = Vauxhall Vectra
• Jaguar X-Type = Ford Mondeo = Mazda 6Sorry, you are wrong about this one. Jaguar are owned by Ford but they are different models built at different plants. Jags are built in Castle Bromwich and Halewood, Mondeo's aren't
• Peugeot 407 = Citreon C5
• Porsche Cayenne = VW Touareg
• Mercedes CLK = Chrysler Crossfire
• Lotus Elise = Vauxhall VX220
• Smart Forfour = Mitsubushi Colt
• VW Sharan = Ford Galaxy = Seat Alhambra
• Vauxhall Astra = Pile of Poo

I'm sure there are many more

Hope this helps someone out there

Inactive

" Jaguar X-Type = Ford Mondeo = Mazda 6Sorry, you are wrong about this one. Jaguar are owned by Ford but they are different models built at different plants. Jags are built in Castle Bromwich and Halewood, Mondeo's aren't "

They are effectively the same cars tho', same running gear, just badged and priced up.

The Mazda 6 is far and away the best option.

IamBroke

So I have read a few posts on here saying that either clinique or clarins make the cosmetics and skincare at M & S. Can anyone confirm this?!

I spend a fortune on both clinique and clarins so would be grateful for a cheaper brand!!

Yogibear

don`t know how relevant this is but our cat would eat nothing but Whiskas

pouches we

tried different brands to no avail,for the last few weeks she has

been munching through Opticat pouches from Lidl,63p for 4 a fraction of the

price of Whiskas,it looks the same packaging,is it the same,I wonder?!!:j

before_hollywood

natalie1980 wrote: »

I work for M&S and the chicken comes from Grampian Chicken (formally Marshalls Chunky Chicken). All marks food is produced in a seperate part of the factory, I know that for a fact, marks and spencer bosses can turn up at anytime and shut the factory down if they dont like anything. I knew someone who worked for their meat supplier and seemingly u could have eaten ur dinner off the floors in the marks and spencer part. All marks products are made to marks recipes designed by their food technologists.

Think I posted on this thread before.

Bread - British Bakeries
Milk- Robert Wisemens
Chocolate - Thorntons (except the Swiss range rumour has it its Lindt)
Ready made meals - Some factory Ive never heard of in Hemel Hempstead, used to be sun valley some time ago
Biscuits - Burtons and McVities
Soup - Baxters (years ago my mother heard our store manager on the phone to Ena lol)

m and s milk comes from wisemans? the same wisemans who sell their own milk in their own packaging in netto?

before_hollywood

dunncha wrote: »

Thinking of buying a DVD player. Best advice is to buy the cheapest one you can find with the features you need. (5.1 sound and such like) There is about 4 DVD manufacturers in the world. 2 in China and SONY and Toshiba.

Sony/Toshiba spends a lot of time and effort ensuring their DVD Players only plays the films they would like you to watch. So if you want a multi-region Sony/Toshiba it will cost you a lot more money.

Better idea is to buy a cheap one from Tesco, Safeway or Woolies or any where else you can find one. (a good example is LG or Philips) These usually come from one of the Chinese Manufacturers. These Chinese manufacturers make one DVD player and sell them all around the world with a few software modifications for region coding. This software is easily switched back allowing you to buy your DVD's from anywhere. DVD's from America for example are about half the price we pay in this country. Full details on opening regions can be found on: ((http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks))
:rotfl:

An added bonus is these cheaper DVD Players play VCD's (Video CD) SVCD (Super Video CD) and Mini DVD's as well which Sony/Toshiba won't.

Sony/Toshiba also rebadge cheap DVD Players as their own as well. The list is too long to list but imagine buying a expensive DVD Player and finding its only a cheap one rebadged. A list of these can be found here as well ((http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks))

The same also goes for DVD Recorders
:T

a lot of manufacturers don't make things like their own disc drives (too expensive to set the production facilities up), so they buy them off another company- a company called liteon.
they now sell their own dvd recorders (did sell players at one time), a typical liteon recorder will come multiformat for about £100, cheap single format one is about £70, expensive one is £150+ and you can usually guess its got a liteon drive on it.

most asda electricals are made by either schneider or alba (they are massive and make most cheap a/v equipement anyway)