Source to determine true owner of organic companies....

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Great info, thanks Barb!

 

Cyndi

 

 

 

Barb <FirstYrs08

 

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:35 pm

[RFSL] Source to determine true owner of organic companies....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone had left this as a comment on one of the Mercola articles

discussing big businesses (those that typically cut costs and produce

junk) who buy organic/natural companies. I thought the comments were

just as useful because the list of bought out companies was sooooo

long. It may be just as easy to search out those that are still owned

by the original founders.....

 

Comments by remobec_203...

 

Here's a good way to figure out the connections of your favorite

brands, which, unfortunately, not everyone has access to.

 

Go to your local library's website. Look for a link to the databases.

Usually just called " databases " or " electronic resources " or some such.

There are a few different databases libraries can to that

give the user business profiles for nearly all businesses in the U.S.

(and sometimes farther abroad). Business & Company Resource Center is

one such. However, the best for our purposes is ReferenceUSA.

 

If your library has Reference USA, follow the link to that. You'll

probably need your library card to access it. Then search for the

company (use the search link sort of in the upper left corner). I put

in " Burt's Bees. " Whe

n the search results come up, look at the far

right column where it says " Corporate Family. " Click " view " and it will

show you and parent and child companies affiliated with it. In which

case I can see the Burt's Bees is owned by Clorox.

 

Reference USA is pretty common. Both the local library systems I use

have it, but I live in a large city. If your library doesn't have it,

oftentimes neighboring (and larger) city libraries will let you get a

library card for free and then you can access their databases from home.