List of Brands Bought out by Large Corporations
Updated: Jun 3, 2022
Looking at the shelves in the store, there seems to be loads of brands, giving us the illusion of loads of choices. But what you might not know is that the majority of these brands are owned by just a few large corporations. When a large company buys out a smaller company, a lot of times the quality changes. Large corporations are looking to maximize their profits and most of the time they don’t care about the values originally put in place by the company they just took over.
Here are a few brands that have been bought out by large corporations:
Clorox owns the following brands:
Rainbow Light
Natural Vitality (popular for their CALM drink)
Burt's Bees
Renew Life
Hidden Valley Ranch
Brita Water Filter
Fresh Step
Pine-Sol
Glad
and many more!
General Mills owns the following brands:
Cascadian Farm
Annie's
LaraBar
Muir Glen Organics
Food Should Taste Good
Epic Provisions
and 100+ more!
Unilever owns the following brands:
Smarty Pants Vitamins
Seventh Generation
Vaseline
Schmidt's
Olly
Liquid IV
Ben & Jerry's
Living Proof
Shea Moisture
Love Beauty and Planet
Axe
Dove
and 400+ more!
Flowers Foods owns the following brands:
Dave's Killer Bread
Nature's Own
Wonder Bread
and many more!
Johnson & Johnson owns the following brands:
Zarbee’s
Benadryl
Tylenol
Zyrtec
Motrin
Neutrogena
Listerine
Band-Aid
and many more!
SC Johnson owns the following brands:
Method
Mrs. Meyer's
Glade
Pledge
Shout
Windex
Babyganics
ecover
and many more!
Kellogg's owns the following brands:
Kashi
Apple Jacks
Fruit loops
Cheez-it
and many more!
Nestle owns the following brands:
Garden of Life Vitamins
Pureology
Vital Proteins
Gerber
Cheerios
Nespresso coffee
Starbucks coffee at home
Purina
and 2,000+ more!
Proctor & Gamble owns the following brands:
Native
New Chapter Vitamins
Pampers
Luvs
Dreft
Downy
Bounty
Gain
Tide
Charmin
Always
Tampax
Herbal Essences
Head & Shoulders
Pantene
Dawn
Cascade
Mr. Clean
Febreze
Olay
Old Spice
Secret
Crest
Pepsi Bismol
Vicks
and many more!
Hershey's owns the following brands:
Dagoba Chocolate
Pirates booty
Skinny Pop
ONE (protein bar)
Lily's Chocolate
Dot's Pretzels
Reese's
and many more!
L'Oréal owns the following brands:
The Body Shop
NYX
Essie
Maybelline
Garnier
and many more!
Danone owns the following brands:
Delight creamer
Oikos
Silk
Activia
Evian water
and many more!
Colgate-Palmolive owns the following brands:
Tom's of Maine
Hello
Murphy Oil Soap
Irish Spring
AJAX
Softsoap
and many more!
Coca-Cola owns the following brands:
Odwalla
Honest Tea
Fairlife
Bodyarmor drinks
Dasani
Fanta
Sprite
Smartwater
Vitamin water
and 200+ more brands
Pepsi owns the following brands:
Naked Juice
Aquafina
Izze
Bubly
LIFEWTR
Mountain Dew
Mug Rootbeer
Muscle Milk
Propel
Starbucks ready to drink
Oceanspray
Voss water
Dr. Pepper
Lipton tea
Rockstar energy drink
and many more!
GlaxoSmithKline owns the following brands:
and many more!
Hormel Foods owns the following brands:
Applegate
Justin's peanut butter
Skippy peanut butter
Spam
and many more!
Amazon owns Wholefoods 365
Medly Pharmacy owns Pharmaca
This is WHY to avoid shopping at most stores, and shop from small businesses. It’s time to stop lining the pockets of big corporations who don’t care if they slowly poison us with toxic ingredients.
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