Comments on: Holiday Inn, Dial Soap & Other Famous Not-So-American Brands

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:51:29 +0000

Remember too, that there are four major record companies that are responsible for 99% of all the music you hear on the radio today. These are the companies that make up the RIAA (they all have dozens, if not hundreds of smaller labels under their umbrella) so their demands for more money, and whining about copyright losses all come down to millions being funneled to other countries. Additionally, remember all that great American country music you saw on the ACM awards last night was all put out by foreign record companies who are all mighty glad to scoop all that American money.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:27:55 +0000

Aren’t there ANY American companies left?

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:45:15 +0000

Sam Adams = yuck. I’d rather give my money to the S. Africans.

Pilsner Urqell= yum.

Budweiser is good for a cheap, watery buzz, for which there certainly is a time and place.

My recaptcha is never very interesting. I feel cheated.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:15:43 +0000

Just so you Know : 7-Eleven convenience stores owned by a giant japanese convenience store operator

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:26:24 +0000

At one time Burger King was owned by Pillsbury

By: hifidigitalboy

hifidigitalboy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:39:21 +0000

Isn’t Coors jointly owned by the Canadians and the South Africans?

If the AB sell gets approved, Sam Adams will be the largest American based brewery.

By: Florida

Florida — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:42:28 +0000

Trader Joe’s is owned by Germans and 7-11 is owned by the Japanese, which explains why there are so many of them in Tokyo.

And Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch) was founded in America and has always been (until yeterday) an American company. It was NOT originally a foreign beer. If you’re talking about Budweiser Bier you’re talking about a different beer made by a different company.

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:43:10 +0000

It’s been a while but it seems even the media has forgotten that Budweiser was originally a FOREIGN beer–oh my!

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:30:20 +0000

I’m shocked by this list…I had no idea. Interesting stuff!

By: telee

telee — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:25:55 +0000

I assume the electronics colossus that bough Columbia is Sony, although not mentioned by name.

Casey, I thought Nestle had always been a Dutch company.

My Lucent phone has now lost a bit of its luster. Are there any of the old television brands not owned by French, British or Asian companies?