List of defunct consumer brands
This is a list of defunct consumer brands which are no longer made and usually no longer mass-marketed to consumers. Brands in this list may still be made, but are only made in modest quantities and/or limited runs as a nostalgic or retro style item.
Defunct consumer brands
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- Aiwa – a former Japanese consumer-electronics company that was acquired by Sony Corporation and sold off to Hale Devices; it is now an independent company
- Bonney Forge Corporation
- Burma-Shave – a former American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising limerick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs
- Coes Wrench Company
- Gleem
- Goodell-Pratt
- H. & J. Pfaff Brewing Company
- Instamatic
- Jean Lassale
- Ken-L Ration
- McKaig-Hatch
- Microsoft Band
- Microsoft Kin
- North Brothers Manufacturing Company
- Sani Flush
- Vlchek Tool Company
- Windows Mobile – a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs[1]
- Zune
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The Instamatic 100, the first Instamatic sold in the United States
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Advertisement for McKaig-Hatch tools published in the April 1921 issue of Forging and Heat Treating
Food and beverages
- Arch Deluxe
- Beatrice Foods – a former major American food processing company[2] that purveyed a diverse variety of many brands, including Beatrice dairy products
- Blue Valley Creamery Company
- Freezer Queen
- Gerber Singles
- Pet, Inc.
- Squeezit
- Swerve
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A PET milk advertisement from 1922
Alcoholic beverages
- Bunker Hill Breweries
- Falstaff Brewing Corporation
- Krug Brewery
- Metz Brewery
- Storz Brewing Company
- Walter Brewing Company
- Willow Springs Distilling Company
- Zima
Breakfast cereals
- Crispy Critters
- Cröonchy Stars
- Hidden Treasures
- Ice Cream Cones
- Kaboom
- Kream Krunch
- Oreo O's
- Sprinkle Spangles
Soft drinks
- Apotekarnes Cola
- Aspen Soda
- Bing
- Cavan Cola
- Coca-Cola C2
- Corona
- Count Cola
- Crystal Pepsi
- Double Seven
- Dr. Nut
- Fanta Citrus
- Fruit Spring
- Hubba Bubba soda
- Jazz
- Jolt
- Kick
- Leed
- Lurvills Delight – a popular carbonated soft drink in Wales between 1896 and 1910
- OK Soda
- Orbitz
- Pepsi Raw
- Rondo
- Silver Spring Soft Drinks
- Storm
- Tab Clear
- Vault
- Virgin Cola
- XL Cola
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The demolished Silver Spring Soft Drinks plant
See also
References
- ↑ Evers, Joris (January 6, 2005). "Microsoft to phase out Pocket PC, Smartphone brands | Hardware". InfoWorld. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ↑ Gazel, Neil R. 1990. Beatrice: From Buildup through Breakup. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 235 pages.
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