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Different brand same product

  • 23-08-2011 03:11PM
    #1
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,175 ✭✭✭


    On Kellogs boxes it says we don't make our product for anyone else. This got me thinking, Who does?

    My mothers friend told her the other day that she knows that the Kiltealy gold butter in Aldi is made by Dairygold and is exactly the same, Haven't tried it myself yet but my mother said there is no difference at all, Apart from the fact that it's €1.50 or so cheaper.

    Does anybody know any others?


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  • #2
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    I think Nestle make the generic supermarket brand cereals , hence the slogan on the Kelloggs.


  • #3
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    Ya, that goes on a lot. A load of the supermarkets "own brand" items are made by other large producers, like with your butter example, and sold for far less. Can't think of any myself now though.


  • #4
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    Low fat milk is just full fat milk with a drop of water. Semi-skimmed is just low fat.

    Its the worlds largest conspiracy. All the dairy farmers are in on it.


  • #5
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    You wont find a job reading cereal boxes young man


  • #6
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Factories that make OEM parts for the motor industry also make no-name aftermarket parts that are sold for a fraction of the price*



    *this is what I've heard. If you replace OEM parts with after market I won't be held responsible :)


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  • #7
    Karona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    The Killeen factory make brand name brillo pads, they also make the cheap ones.


  • #8
    Paarse Krokodil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Paarse Krokodil


    happens all the time with consumer electronics products.

    A somewhat recognised brand in Europe will get some Chinese manufacturer to stick their own brand on the Chinese stuff. Its just a service the chinese manufacturer offers to sell more stuff.

    Some company might buy a bunch of Chinese battery chargers and negotiate a deal to sell with Argos while a small importer will buy the same things to sell at lesser known shops and open air markets for a fraction of the price.

    Brands like 'Power Devil', 'Challenge' and own-brand electronics like Maplin are notorious for it. Its not like Maplin owns a little factory in China somewhere making power supplies and batteries its all the same crap sold under lots of different names


  • #9
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    Pretty much every name brand made by the Kerry Group has a supermarket own band equivalent, also made by the Kerry Group.


  • #10
    redfacedbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭redfacedbear


    I reckon that nearly all the frozen pizzas in the shops come from the same factory.

    I've heard some pre-sliced cheese brands are the same too.


  • #11
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    I think Jacobs make alot of the own brand biscuits.


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  • #12
    Mongarra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Mongarra


    Not sure if OP means food only but a friend went to a tyre/batteries agent for a tractor battery and agent asked him which brand stickers he wanted on the unmarked battery.


  • #13
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    dunnes have the same clothes supplier as New Look and I think Dorothy Perkins, you'll often find the exact same dresses in the 3 shops with different labels and prices.


  • #14
    Cormac2791
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Cormac2791


    That premium milk you buy in dublin is really avonmore!


  • #15
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    Low fat milk is just full fat milk with a drop of water. Semi-skimmed is just low fat.

    Its the worlds largest conspiracy. All the dairy farmers are in on it.

    Dairy farmers have no control over milk once it's sold to the creamery


  • #16
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I know for a fact that the own-brand cheese that Dunnes (for example) sell is identical to the fancier branded stuff (Kilmeaden, Charleville) etc...

    I imagine it's the same for many other products


  • #17
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Degag wrote: »
    I think Jacobs make alot of the own brand biscuits.

    They make the dunnes brand biscuits anyway, or at least they used to 2 or 3 years ago, not sure if they still do.


  • #18
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    Dunnes and tesco brand butter is made by Dairygold.....how do I know this?I worked as a manager and found a creepy hybrid carton of butter with a Dunnes and tesco cover on it:pac:


  • #19
    Paarse Krokodil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Paarse Krokodil


    tallaghtmick wrote: »
    Dunnes and tesco brand butter is made by Dairygold.....how do I know this?I worked as a manager and found a creepy hybrid carton of butter with a Dunnes and tesco cover on it:pac:

    Could it not just be that all the cartons come from the same supplier?


  • #20
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    tallaghtmick wrote: »
    Dunnes and tesco brand butter is made by Dairygold.....how do I know this?I worked as a manager and found a creepy hybrid carton of butter with a Dunnes and tesco cover on it:pac:
    The thing that should not be!

    Largo foods who make Tayto/King/Hunky Dorys also make a lot of own brand stuff.


  • #21
    crotalus667
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭crotalus667


    Avenmore and Premier milk come from the same dairy/factory


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  • #22
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    Low fat milk is just full fat milk with a drop of water. Semi-skimmed is just low fat.

    Its the worlds largest conspiracy. All the dairy farmers are in on it.
    Doubt that's right. I have both low-fat and whole milk here in my fridge - the low-fat has a higher protein and sugar content, so it wouldn't make sense that it's just a watered-down version.


  • #23
    Paarse Krokodil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Paarse Krokodil


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    Doubt that's right. I have both low-fat and whole milk here in my fridge - the low-fat has a higher protein and sugar content, so it wouldn't make sense that it's just a watered-down version.

    Fat free milk is just milk with a very large drop of water. Even if its not, it fecking tastes like it is.


  • #24
    Magic Beans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Magic Beans


    baraca wrote: »
    On Kellogs boxes it says we don't make our product for anyone else.
    When did you read that? AFAIK Kelloggs admitted to manufacturing LIDL cereal a couple of years ago. The cheap flakes market was just to big to ignore.


  • #25
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Check out this thread for a list of companies who make supermarket own brands :)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=70930797


  • #26
    Cormac2791
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Cormac2791


    crotalus667 wrote: »
    Avenmore and Premier milk come from the same dairy/factory

    I said that! :P


  • #27
    kwestfan08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭kwestfan08


    Every large supermarket chicken comes from the same factory just with a different label. Same goes for the stuff like wings, legs etc


  • #28
    andala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭andala


    Sometimes, due to increased demand, a famous lighting company whose name starts with P buys bulbs from China and repacks them to sell as their own brand

    Also, the Dutch Cow and Gate equivalent is not a Dutch product as it's stated on the box, it's made in Poland and boxed in the Netherlands


  • #29
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    Did you see this in the Irish Times OP?

    Also a holla out to that poster that said food sold in Aldi is sub standard. :D
    The company which supplies Aldi’s steaks and its fresh burgers is AIBP Meats. The same company supplies meat to Londis, Tesco and Superquinn.
    Premium fillet steaks in Superquinn cost €9.99, or €49.95 a kilo. In Aldi, the same fillets from the same animals cost €13.99 for 400g, or €34.97 per kg.


    Aldi’s Snackrite Okey Dokeys Crinkle Cut Crisps cost €1.99 for twelve 25g packets. The crisps are made by Largo Foods, better known as the makers of Hunky Dorys crisps. A six-pack of identically-sized Hunky Dorys was selling last week in another major supermarket for €2.15 – or over 100 per cent more expensive.


    Well-known relish and jam makers from Cork, and artisan producers of yoghurts and bread also make products for Aldi which sell for less than their own branded products. This begs the question why more Irish people are not hunting out these supermarket-branded products.


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/pricewatch/2011/0822/1224302803354.html


  • #30
    Paarse Krokodil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Paarse Krokodil


    andala wrote: »
    Sometimes, due to increased demand, a famous lighting company whose name starts with P buys bulbs from China and repacks them to sell as their own brand

    I thought all LED bulbs made by the said company come from China


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  • #31
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,054 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Aldi flour (or maybe Lidl, not sure) is just odlums in a different pack afaik.


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