Who owns who?

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brisket

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 £182million 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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machelMember VIP10 yearsModerator

bachelors as a company went years ago (family worked there) and was taken over by oxo - the bachelors factory in worksop had a huge oxo sign on it, the factory shop suddenly had all manner of products!

2/9/117:30 AM

El 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.

2/9/117:38 AM

brisketMember Memoriam

I think Bachelors took over Campbells didn't they - or was it Baxters?
The people who make Henderson's Relish are a family company. But it may be just familiar in the South Yorkshire area.

2/9/117:41 AM

Former Member

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

2/9/118:23 AM

AmythistMember 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.

2/9/119:46 AM

Former Member

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

2/9/1111:31 AM

Karma_Member

Unilever's the same, they own half the world

2/9/1111:36 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

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.

2/9/1111:41 AM

MargueritaMember

Unilever's the same, they own half the world

You are not wrong there it is amazing what they own all these big household brand names are owned by them,my works pension is Unilever I have got to say they are one of the best and safest pensions to have and very good to their pensioners..

2/9/112:01 PM

Ensign MufMember

Reference:

my decision is mainly because of the way they have treated Cadbury's

Cadburys used to have a message on their wrapper stating that no slave labour was used in the production of it's chocolate. Last time I checked, it has disappeared

2/9/113:48 PM

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