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A lot of brands have flourished so much in the US that they "feel American", but are actually not at all!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

BiC (i.e. the pens, lighters, and shavers company)

(TIL via https://lemmy.ca/post/42203205)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

This is the most mind blowing one. 🤯

[–] Lemmyoutofhere 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you think they call them Canada Geese outside of Canada?

[–] Lemmyoutofhere 2 points 1 day ago
[–] cecilkorik 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And Reuters was bought out by a Canadian company in 2008

[–] MyBrainHurts 4 points 2 days ago

Holy hell, had no idea about Reuters. Wild!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Knorr is a German soup mix company that's owned by Unilever, a British company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ray-Ban is no longer an american brand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

TIL Luxottica is an Italian brand

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was surprised L'Oreal, Dove, and Eucerin weren't from the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

L'Oreal owns the following non-American brands:

  • Garnier
  • Biotherm
  • Diesel (jeans)
  • Lancôme
  • YSL
  • Kérastase
  • La Roche-Posay
  • Vichy
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Nestle has a large but non controlling ownership in L'Oreal, so they are brands to boycott.