List of defunct consumer brands

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This is a list of defunct notable consumer brands that are no longer manufactured and no longer to consumers. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a consumer brand is "a product that is well known and that is bought by individual people rather than by companies". [1] Brands in this list may still be manufactured in modest quantities or limited runs as a nostalgic or retro style item. The items in the list are mainly American.

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A set of signs promoting Burma-Shave, on U.S. Route 66

Automobiles


Airlines

Banking and accounting

Energy

Food and beverages

Processing, distributing and retail companies

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A PET milk advertisement from 1922

Dairy

Pet food

Food items

Alcoholic beverages

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An advertisement for Bunker Hill Breweries' Boston Club Lager

Breakfast cereals

Soft drinks

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The demolished Silver Spring Soft Drinks plant

Heavy manufacturing and processing

Media

Retail

Chain stores

Clothing and accessories

Consumer electronics and software

Home consumer products

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The Instamatic 100, the first Instamatic sold in the United States

Photography

Toy manufacturers

Railroads

Shipping

Telecommunications

See also

References

  1. "consumer brand". dictionary.cambridge.org. 2025-09-10. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  2. Gazel, Neil R. (1990). Beatrice: From Buildup through Breakup . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN   978-0-252-01729-2.
  3. Charles Gipfel Milwaukee, Wisconsin Early Stoneware
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Galindo, Brian (February 15, 2013). "25 Cereals From The '80s You Will Never Eat Again". BuzzFeed . Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  5. Evers, Joris (January 6, 2005). "Microsoft to phase out Pocket PC, Smartphone brands | Hardware". InfoWorld. Retrieved July 14, 2011.