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I have always been surprised when I discover that the firm/cpmpany/business is not what I thought.
I am old-fashioned I suppose and I don't grasp the machinations of corporate businesses.
I often been surprised to discover that what I imagined was a cosy little family firm (often re-inforced by canny advertising) is actually owned by a world-wide conglomeration.
The business world baffles me.
I can't understand how they can pootle along for ages with a massive debt round their necks.
For example......

Premier Foods to reduce a big debt,  sold their canning business - which includes Crosse & Blackwell and Fray Bentos - for ÂĢ182million to Princes.
Princes, in turn, is owned by Mitsubishi.
All these are owned by Premier Foods......







I am pleased the days of the family business are not entirely lost and gone forever.
S C Johnson is a family business. They make Pledge, Sparkle, Toilet Ducj, Mr Muscle, Glade, Oust, Brillo, Klear, Raid Goddards.
S C Johnson was established over 100 years ago and the same family own and run it today
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El LoroEl LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator
This will be of little interest to most, but it has been a requirement for some years that any UK limited company has to disclose in its annual accounts who is the ultimate controlling party. So if you got hold of the accounts of a company it is possible to find out who controls it. Wouldn't apply to the top company in a group as if it is a public company then it would be owened by lots of shareholders.

My mother wrongly used to say that Boots owned everything.
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There was a 'home-produced' booklet that most protesters had during the 90s called Dirty Fingers in Dirty Pies which listed the holdings of the mutlnationals. Required reading if you were, for example, and animal rights protester and wanted to boycott companies that were vivisectors.
It is mind boggling when you actually discover who owns what - and how large and powerful these organisations are. It's no wonder that a lot of governments are reluctant to pass legislation that limits their activities in any way
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AmythistAmythistMember 10 years
Its really hard to shop ethically when you buy any brand, I remember my aunt wouldnt buy Heath and Heather herbal teas from the health food shop because they owned another company which sold one day old chicks for experiments.

Also all free range egg farms (except the individual small farms that sell locally) feed male chicks live into a shredder because they dont need them.

Im not an animal rights campaigner but there are some horrible practices in the food industry.

I guess the giant multinationals can do what they want and we pay the price they ask.It doesnt seem healthy to me.
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I don't touch anything manufactured by Kraft

including  Dairylea triangles (I lubbed them) and others including:

  • Philadelphia Cheese
  • Oreo
  • Maxwell House
  • Nabisco
  • Capri-Sun
  • Ritz
  • Miracle Whip
  • Planters Peanuts
  • Toblerone
  • Velveeta
  • Dentyne gum
  • Halls Medicine
  • Cadbury
  • Bubaloo
  • Stimorol
  • Trident gum
  • Sour Patch Kids
  • Stride gum
  • Swedish Fish
  • Bubblicious
  • Certs Mints
  • Clorets gum
  • Mentos
 my decision is mainly because of the way they have treated Cadbury's 
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DirtyprettygirlthingDirtyprettygirlthingMember
Coca Cola & Schweppes

Proctor & Gamble


etc etc etc...  


There is about to be an investigation into the companies that supply heating oil (which has been rising in price at a ludicrous rate lately)...    there are rumours that all the companies listed on the couple of "best price" sites (e.g. boilerjuice) are all ultimately owned by the same company.
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