Small companies should stop selling themselves to bigger companies especially by a different country
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Yes. A good example is bottled water. Nestle, Pepsico and Coca Cola own local water brands all over the world.
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Example with Nestle (up-to-date and most of the brands included). I'll try to do the same with other companies (Coca Cola, Pepsico, P&G etc.)
#NESTLE Brands: Soft drink and ice market - S.Pellegrino - Nestle Pure Life - Perrier - Vittel - Poland Spring - Contrex - Arrowhead - Acqua Panna - Sao Lourenco Sugar And Confectionery Products Market - Smarties - Cailler - Kitkat - Crunch - Aero - Orion - Nestle Toll House - Wonka Canned and ambient food - Althera - Alfare - Alfamino - Boost - Peptamen Frozen food - Maggi - Stouffers - Hot Pockets - Buitoni - Digiorno - Jack's - Herta - TombStone - THOMY - Lean Cuisine Coffe and tea - Nescafe - Nespresso - Nescafe Dolce Gusto - Milo - Nesquik - Nescau - Nestea - Nescafe Original 3 in 1 - Coffee-Mate - Nescafe Gold - Nescafé Cappuccino - Starbucks Ice cream and frozen dessert - Milo - Milo to Go - Nesfit - Nido/Ninho - NestlE Bear Brand - NutriRindes - Ideal - Dreyer's - Movenpick - Haagen-Dazs - Nestle Ice Cream - Extreme - Carnation - Nido - Coffee-Mate - La Laitière Pet food - Purina - Friskies - Purina Alpo - Purina Felix - Purina One - Purina Pro Plan - Purina Cat Chow - Purina Gourmet - Purina Fancy Feast - Purina Beneful - Purina Dog Chow - Purina Bakers a. Nestle (Malaysia) Berhad, Malaysia 72,613% - subsidiary Brands: - Nescafe - Nestum - Milo - Maggie - La Cremeria - Mat Kool - Lactokid - Nankid - Nespray - Omega Plus - Drumstick b. Nestle Pakistan Limited, Pakistan 61,6% - subsidiary Brands: - Milkpak (Nestle SA) - Bunyad (Nestle SA) - Nesvita (Nestle SA) - Nido (Nestle SA) - Milo (Nestle SA) - Fruita Vitals (Nestle SA) - Everyday (Nestle SA) - Milkpak Cream (Nestle SA) - Milkpak Yogurt (Nestle SA) - Nesfruta (Nestle SA) - Nescafe (Nestle SA) - Nescafe Gold (Nestle SA) - Pure Life (Nestle SA) - Koko Krunch (Nestle SA) - Professional (Nestle SA) - Milkpak Whipping Cream (Nestle SA) - Milkpak Breakfast Creams (Nestle SA) - Milkpak Dairy Butter (Nestle SA) - Sweet `N' Tasty Yogurt (Nestle SA) - Podina & Zeera Raita (Nestle SA) - Laban (Nestle SA) - Milo Cereal (Nestle SA) - TRIX (Nestle SA) - Gold Cornflakes (Nestle SA) - Cerelac (Nestle SA) - Nangrow (Nestle SA) - Lactogrow (Nestle SA) - Nescafe Original (Nestle SA) - Nescafe Chilled RTD (Nestle SA) - Nescafe Ice (Nestle SA) c. L’Oreal S.A., France 20,13% Brands: - L'Oreal Paris - Garnier - Maybelline New York - Kerastase - Redken - Matrix - Lancome - Ralph Lauren - Cacharel - Inneov - Vichy - The Body Shop - Galderma - Kiehl's - L'Oreal Professionnel - Biotherm - La Roche-Posay - Skinceuticals - Helena Rubinstein - Giorgio Armani - Shu Uemura - SoftSheen Carson
Remember, kids:
Nestle are European, but they are still worthy of their own life-long boycott, because they're immoral dickheads.
Controversies of Nestle (Wikipedia)
Sadly, you might find the other mega-corporations are barely better.
That's a lot
P&G (headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio) Brands (Source: The Business Research Company):
Cutlery And Hand Tools Market: Braun, Venus, Fusion, Gillette, Mach3
Converted Paper Products Market: Bounty, Charmin, Tampax, Luvs, Always Discreet, Pampers
Toiletries Market: Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Herbal Essences, Rejoice, Olay, Old Spice, SK-II
Soap And Cleaning Compounds Market: Crest, Oral-B, Metamucil, Prilosec, Vicks, Cascade, Dawn, Fairy, Febreze, Mr. Clean, Swiffer, Ariel, Gain, Downy, Tide
Respiratory Diseases Drugs Market: Vicks
Musculoskeletal Disorders Drugs Market: Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Eli Lilly And Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Gastrointestinal Drugs Market: Pepto Bismol