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Once great brands ...... now junk.

NIMAN

Reading the Black Friday thread, and Polaroid was mentioned, got me thinking about some of the old names of my youth who were once innovative brands.

Back in the day, Blaupunkt was a brand you always fancied owning.
Or Alpine car stereos.

I know now that many famous brands have sold their rights to be used by other companies, so you buy a Hitachi, JVC, Sharp TV now at your peril.

Any others spring to mind?

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Cantona's Collars

Mitsubishi Black Diamond,used to be great until they were sold off to some Turkish company (Vestel I think)

B.A._Baracus

Sanyo was once a good quality brand name. Not sure if I can even say their new products are bad as they have pretty much disappeared over here.

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Fianna Fail

sabat

I remember back when the only Samsung you'd see was a microwave oven.

TheDavester

Liverpool Fc

NIMAN

glasso wrote: »

Fianna Fail

We have a winner.:D

Badly Drunk Boy

Back in the day, we had a Pye telly. And a Ferguson. (Not the tractor).

Kodak would probably be the sort of brand in this category.

NIMAN

If I was to buy a TV now, I wouldn't think about any manufacturer that isn't in this list:

Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, LG.

freshpopcorn

Lucozade!

Your Face

Russell and Joe.

Not sure if they were ever great though.

Tom Mann Centuria

Any brand that Sports Direct have got their paws on.

jrmb

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Kodak would probably be the sort of brand in this category.

Polaroid, Kodak, Memorex, Praktica, Maxell

david75

The Catholic Church

ceadaoin.

Thought this said bands, not brands. I was slightly confused reading the replies for a few seconds.

Anyway, probably all of them. Things don't seem to last the way they used to

ambasite

Tommy Tiernan

SpatialPlanning

Tommy Hilfiger. Used to do really high quality, durable clothes. I had jumpers that lasted years. Now the stuff is pure crap.

SuperS54

Philips, used to be a good brand, moved pretty much everything to China and outsourcing and are peddling tat these days.

Greybottle

Nokia.

Still around, but still make excellent phones, but are nowhere near as prominent as a few years ago.

magentis

NIMAN wrote: »

If I was to buy a TV now, I wouldn't think about any manufacturer that isn't in this list:

Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, LG.

Even some of the lower end Panasonic's are made by vestel.

Optimalprimerib

Sketchers. Their shoes only last a few months

Archeron

Cadburys.

Wanderer78

Its called 'profit maximisation', get over it, it's good for us, apparently!

padd b1975

Mercedes Benz.

flaneur

Hoover

JohnBoy26

NIMAN wrote: »

Reading the Black Friday thread, and Polaroid was mentioned, got me thinking about some of the old names of my youth who were once innovative brands.

Back in the day, Blaupunkt was a brand you always fancied owning.
Or Alpine car stereos.

I know now that many famous brands have sold their rights to be used by other companies, so you buy a Hitachi, JVC, Sharp TV now at your peril.

Any others spring to mind?

Alpine are still a top brand in car audio and are not junk. Blaupunkt was always an overrated brand which had very poor quality head units, especially towards the end of the 90's, unreliable and terrible sound quality.

RobAMerc

Nordmende and Telefunken

nullzero

One that still successful but makes products that just don't last as well as their competitors is Gillette. In fact they probably dominate their market place but man those razors are bad.

JohnBoy26

As with the many other once great brands toshiba tvs are also now made by vestel. Before I think some of the higher end models were a toshiba design with the lower end stuff being made by vestel for years. I think all European toshibas are made by vestel nowadays.

md23040

The irony of the name - Quality Street.

Really cheap choclate that's excessively sweet. Pure muck.

md23040

The irony of the name - Quality Street.

Really cheap choclate that's excessively sweet. Pure muck.