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Who Makes Store Brands?

Many name-brand manufacturers also make store brands for retailers such as Walmart and Sears where they may be sold at a lower price. Depending on the product, it may be specced differently, for example using cheaper parts. This is a guide about "Who makes store brands?".

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Fisher Swanson
January 17, 2001

When staring at the numerous different brands of products and their prices on shelves at the supermarket, you have to ask yourself: Is one product really better than another? Am I paying for product that tastes better? The truth is, in many cases, you are paying for advertising and packaging. Personally, as a consumer, I'm tired of paying corporations advertising bills.



If you go to the bulk section of your supermarket, you can buy numerous products for nearly half as much than their well advertised and heavily marketed counter parts. In fact, I have found that many bulk products taste better. If you are a person who tends to reach for the most expensive items because you feel they have a higher quality, I would recommend a blind taste test. More often then not, you will find the only real product difference, is the marketing.
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April 1, 2007

Does everyone know that RAGU actually makes Wal-Mart brand spaghetti sauce for $1.00 a jar (it's very good)! And with the recent recall of Peter Pan peanut butter, it became apparent that PP makes Wal-Mart's peanut butter also. Do people have other info about specific products, store brands and who makes them?



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April 2, 20071 found this helpful

The Target brand diapers are Pampers at least they used to be, i still think they are though. Most mac and cheese is produced in the same factory and packaged differently. And Thermasilk by Helen Curtis is made by Suave. If you want to find out more research the companies on the label try to find the parent company then you will know.

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I studied marketing in college and most companies will make the same product and sell it differently some to big fancy stores and some to dollar stores. Either way they make a buck. Check out this link for more info on branding.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Generic_brand

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July 26, 20070 found this helpful

Both my husband & I'm sure that Target's Market Pantry Salsa is the same as Pace Picante Sauce, which we totally adore.

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July 27, 20071 found this helpful

At Walmart, McCormick makes the Store Brand Spices; you will save so much by purchasing the store brand spices. My daughter was a Walmart Associate in the grocery department when she was in college.

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September 6, 20070 found this helpful

Can anyone tell me who supplies Walmart's "Great Value" Hazelnut Coffee Creamer?
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By myrajbell (Guest Post)
January 1, 20080 found this helpful

We are regular shoppers in Krogers and several years ago, up popped kroger Mayonnaise on the shelf "Made by Hellmans." After a couple weeks the "made by Hellmans" disappeared and it was just Krogers Mayonnaise. I recently purchased some Hellmans that was on sale, took it home and compared it. I sure couldn't tell the difference. They tasted identical to me.

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January 1, 20080 found this helpful

My next-door neighbor's son is a Mobil oil distributor, he says Wal Mart's store brand full synthetic motor oil is the same as Mobil 1. The difference in price is about $4 per quart. I don't know about the other store brand motor oils Wal Mart sells, just the full synthetic.

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By REBECCA (Guest Post)
January 22, 20080 found this helpful

Can anyone tell me who makes Presidents Choice Infant Formula? I was told it was actually made by one of the name brands.

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By Grannie (Guest Post)
January 23, 20080 found this helpful

Post By REBECCA (Guest Post) (01/22/2008)

Can anyone tell me who makes Presidents Choice Infant Formula? I was told it was actually made by one of the name brands.

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Hello Rebbecca, I don't know who makes it, what I do know is that a friend of mine that is pharmacy school and will graduate in one year, used walmart's brand of baby formula for both of his amazingly smart infants. He told me that ALL infant formulas are basically the same, that they MUST meet federal requirements. my grandchildren are breastfed, but occasionally, when my working daughter doesn't pump enough milk for the babysitter, they use walmart formula. All of my eight grandchildren are healthy and smart after being breastfed and using store brand formula.

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By sheena baker (Guest Post)
February 11, 20080 found this helpful

can you tell me what they,ve done to the( great value ) coffee creamer brand??? i,ve used this brand for 10 yrs, atleast, in the past 3 months, its changed it doesnt make your coffee light any more, & i havent changed my coffee brand so i blame it on the creamer, now i have to put 6 teaspoons of it in my coffee, have they taken something out""

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January 3, 2018

Who makes Walmart ice cream?


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January 3, 20180 found this helpful
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Great Value is Walmart Ice Cream's brand but it is made by Wells Dairy. Here is the history:

blog.walmart.com/.../meet-wells-dairy-30-years-of-making...

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January 6, 20181 found this helpful
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Walmart does not always stay/stick with the same company for their Great Value products as companies are allowed to bid every so often (1-5 years) but their Great Value ice cream is an exception.

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  • Their Great Value ice cream is made by Wells Dairy in Le Mars, Iowa and after using them for 30 years Walmart must be very happy with the results of this product.
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October 29, 2017

Who makes their brands, specifically soups and broth?


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October 29, 20170 found this helpful
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One of Safeway's brand distributors is by far the largest known. It is Lucerne Foods. This is one of the store brand manufactures for Safeway. The rest of the store brands are manufactured at the same manufacturing company as other store brands use. They are called Store brand manufacturers. They are companies that large chain supermarkets go to to have their private labels added on cans of food.

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In truth, there are thousands of companies that have hundreds of different categories for large chain stores to select from. The market selects it's product and the manufacture will add the label to this product and send it off to the store. So you see these are also generic store brand manufactures.

So if you buy one generic brand from Safeway, it is possible if you go to Vons and buy their generic brand they both come from the same Store brand manufacture. Only the labels added to the can are unique and the food in the can is the same for everyone who orders from them.

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April 11, 2019

Who is the maker of Walmart labeled butter?


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April 14, 20190 found this helpful
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Here is a quoted answer but I believe the products will have different product codes in different parts of the country as it is common with almost all Walmart products to have several distributors. Walmart works on contracts and these can expire (and not be renewed) and a different company chosen.

"According to the dairy code, it is made at California Dairies, Inc. - Visalia. According to the code 06-17652, that is where it's made. Most dairy products have the code somewhere on the package, including milk. Go and find where all your dairy products are from, regardless of which brand you purchase. You'll be surprised to find some of the "no-name" brands are products of the leading dairies."

www.gs1us.org/.../gs1-company-database-gepir

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April 9, 2019

Who makes Kroger original tomato ketchup?


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April 9, 20190 found this helpful
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Kroger has its own plants that manufacture its products.

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October 4, 2015

I would like to know what store brand mayonaise is really Dukes or is made by Dukes?


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August 8, 2010

Who produces Target's Market Pantry ice cream?

By Anonymous from Chicago, IL

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January 25, 2019

What company makes Great Value cream cheese?


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October 15, 2022

Does anyone know who manufactures butter for Demoulas Supermarkets (Market Basket) out of Tewksbury, MA?


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February 11, 2019

Who makes Kroger's Private Selection pizza?


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October 25, 2018

Who produces Market Pantry old fashioned oats, and do they contain Roundup chemicals?


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February 22, 2017

Who makes Kroger self rising pizza?


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July 31, 2016

What bakery makes the bread for Winn Dixie?


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July 7, 2019

Who makes Safeway brand peanut butter?


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