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    After the recent scare about peanut butter, I saw proof of what I
already knew: that "store brands" are made by big name companies, just
with a different label.  For example, some of Wal Mart's Great Value
peanut butter is made by Jiff.
   I was wondering if there was a list or website that offers numbers
to tell who made what.  I was looking at Cremora coffee creamer and
comparing it to the store brand.  The first three numbers were the
same and the packaging similar, but the Great Value brand was over a
dollar cheaper.  I wonder if it's made by Borden like Cremora.


Rick

  Rick wrote:

But you can never draw the conclusion that "made by" is "same as".

 Rick wrote:


Most all store brands are made by large manufacturers, although not
necessarily to the same formulations of in-house branded items.

There are few small manufacturers able to produce the quantity & pricing
required for house branding.

 

Sainsbury's vintage cider is made by Merrydown, whose cider they also sell.

I know because twice they bottled the wrong stuff, and I opened a bottle of
Merrydown and found I was drinking Sainsbury's own brand.

I complained to Merrydown who sent me vouchers for six free bottles both
times!  :oD

Hic!

 
Once, on a group camping trip, a can of house-brand baked beans was purchased.

One gentleman took out his Swiss Army Knife and carefully slit and removed the
can's label.  Underneath was another label for a brand name (S&W, if I recall)
product!  They'd literally relabeled the can to sell it as a house brand.

Art