A lot of brands have flourished so much in the US that they “feel American”, but are actually not at all!
BiC (i.e. the pens, lighters, and shavers company)
(TIL via https://lemmy.ca/post/42203205)
This is the most mind blowing one. 🤯
New York Fries.
Do you think they call them Canada Geese outside of Canada?
What?
Ground News… so many American Youtube sponsorships… I was surprised to learn it’s Canadian.
Similarly, Reuters, one of the main worldwide news distributors that most other news media rely on, along with Associated Press (AP), both are pretty much omnipresent in the US and around the world. Reuters is a UK company.
And Reuters was bought out by a Canadian company in 2008
Holy hell, had no idea about Reuters. Wild!
Knorr is a German soup mix company that’s owned by Unilever, a British company.
Ray-Ban is no longer an american brand.
TIL Luxottica is an Italian brand
I was surprised L’Oreal, Dove, and Eucerin weren’t from the US.
L’Oreal owns the following non-American brands:
- Garnier
- Biotherm
- Diesel (jeans)
- Lancôme
- YSL
- Kérastase
- La Roche-Posay
- Vichy
Nestle has a large but non controlling ownership in L’Oreal, so they are brands to boycott.
