10 Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Buy

[LateX'Dog]

Spoiler

Not really surprised, just shocked at the extent.

 

[Glaucus]

do you buy a lot of snack food?

 

[Nymins]

Nearly every snack food and cleaning/hygiene product I buy.

Half that stuff is American only as well.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

You're missing gsk(GlaxoSmithKline)

 

[Tom0]

There are a few missing off there too, Unilever make/pack Pepperamis for example.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

Nearly every snack food and cleaning/hygiene product I buy.

Half that stuff is American only as well.

This. My caring quota for today remains empty.

 

[Schlong&Stable]

Swap the word 'control' with 'supply' and this article becomes much less paranoid.

 

[pitchfork]

Not me, I don't buy much big branded stuff in terms of the hygeine and food markets.

If you're at all into advertising check out the war between cadburys, nestle and mars, it's an interesting case I thought. I love those old fashioned overly scripted but cleverly worded ads.

 

[Cosimo]

Swap the word 'control' with 'supply' and this article becomes much less paranoid.

You have to make the thread attractive to the conspiracy theory mob.

 

[D.P.]

Swap the word 'control' with 'supply' and this article becomes much less paranoid.

This, and actually, supply is not even that true. The parent companies for most of these don't supply the products, but support management and finances of the child companies.

 

[DanielMMS]

By "control" do you mean "produce"? And why does that matter unless you are a conspiracy theory nut?

 

[div0]

The most surprising thing about your post is how little I buy from the 10 corporations that allegedly control everything I buy.

There's not even a fuel company on there?

That's mainly a list of junk food providers

 

[Judgeneo]

Looking over that, I buy - in order of decreasing frequency - only three items:

Mars Bars
Oral-B toothpaste
Head and Shoulders


Needless to say, its not nearly everything I buy.

 

[Mr_White]

Incorrect.

 

[aardvark]

also nestle may have a share of loreal but they certainly dont control them.

 

[godinman]

It's idiot opening posts and people like this that make it difficult to distinguish between genuinely concerning business practices and internet wanna be blade runner bull****.

 

[Shadez]

Whats more surprising is that the small company i work for has active projects with 3 of those big names and has worked with others in the past

 

[Schlong&Stable]

Whats more surprising is that the small company i work for has active projects with 3 of those big names and has worked with others in the past

You don't work for a Super Villain by any chance do you?

 

[WillyNelson]

You're missing gsk(GlaxoSmithKline)

Aside from Beechams branded stuff and some toothpastes (Aquafresh I think) they don't make that much branded stuff. And they're in the process of flogging off their Consumer Healthcare business meaning that Lucozade & Ribena won't be theirs much longer.

 

[Col_M]

Most of those companies indirectly pay my wages, without them there's a chance I'd be jobless