Generic brands how do I find out who made them?!
Generic brands how do I find out who made them?
When I go to a store, you see for ex: several brands of ketsup, on is the magor brand like hunts and some are store brand. Where can I find a web site that will reveal who makes the generic brand on a side by side line up. Example name brand produce, and who makes the genric brand? Thanks everyone for your help, just woundering if a name brand company make a product then where can I find who made the same product but in a genric brand?
Answers:
All brands have a code of who made them. Some foods are processed and labeled by another company; i.e. S&W = Kroger
Or pharmacuticals become generic when the 'time runs out' for the patent on the original drug; i.e. Nyquill = Equate Nite Time
So if you find a drug or food that you are curious about, google it and you will find most of the information you need.
Good luck.
I know of several companies here in Canada that produce the generic brands for all the major supermarkets, ketchup, soft drinks, mustard, bread and other product, most of the time the same company makes the same product for various stores, check out the bottles and packaging, how similar the one is to the other at other stores of the same value.
The brewerys make cheaper brands of beer and sell them at reduced prices, even big companys like Kelloggs, Hunts, Heinz and General Mills make there own varietys. The quality is minimally different, not inferior but the quality of the ingredients, thickeners and sugar/salt content tend to be the major difference between name brand and generic, I was a chef for 20 yr and did work in retail grocery as a consultant .