Which ALDI Products Comes from The Original Brand/ Manufacturer?

mmd on 09/12/2021 - 17:04
Last edited 09/12/2021 - 18:23 by 1 other user

Which Aldi products comes from the same original brand/manufacturer?

For example I used to buy Smith's crinkle cut original potato chips. I bought a pack of Sprinters original to try, and it tasted exactly the same! I compared the nutritional information of both brands and it is identical. I'm going to assume that Aldi has a contract with Smith's to provide them Sprinter's original.

Why they would do this? Aldi doesn't have processing plant so they need to source a supplier. It is probably cost prohibitive to ship potato chips from overseas, so they ask Smith's to supply. Aldi makes money and so does Smith's.

Unfortunately I tried the salt and vinegar version and it is not the same.

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  • dasher86 on 09/12/2021 - 18:03
    +16

    Welcome to how home brand usually works…

  • Ocker on 09/12/2021 - 19:24
    +1

    Smiths find a buyer of bulk product and give discount - same in any industry

  • Ryanek on 09/12/2021 - 20:45

    The Aldi toilet paper appears to to be Quilton

    • dust on 10/12/2021 - 06:41

      There was a misprint on the cardboard on the Aldi toilet paper which "proved" this.

      • orangetrain on 10/12/2021 - 09:23

        Aldi was all like "we loved your bum"?

  • Peter Enis on 09/12/2021 - 21:39
    +4

    One day you'll buy those Sprinters chips and they'll taste different - somewhat similar but nowhere near as good. Aldi will have found a cheaper supplier.
    That is the Aldi way.

    • Yola on 12/12/2021 - 09:07

      The same with all plain label products.

  • iDroid on 09/12/2021 - 21:49

    If smiths don't sell their product through Aldi, someone else will.

    Smiths increase their sales.

    Smiths conquer another market segment.

    I only see wins for Smiths really.

  • Craze on 09/12/2021 - 22:14
    +2

    Sometimes it is beneficial for a manufacturer to produce for home brands as it would reduce overhead costs for them. In my experience the recipes are normally tweaked a little so that it would not match 100% of the manufacturer's branded products, but sometimes they can be exactly the same (think cake mixes and soup mixes).

  • dassaur on 09/12/2021 - 22:17
    +1

    The butter is the same as buttersoft
    https://mainland.com.au/butter/buttersoft/buttersoft-salted.…
    Same nutritional info, ingredients % and even packaged the same way.

  • inherentchoice on 09/12/2021 - 23:06

    Most things will be made by the big brands, but they probably use some cheaper ingredients. For example powdered milk instead of fresh milk in the frozen lasagne.

    Pretty sure their frozen pizzas are from McCain. And their tinned Spaghetti is from Heinz. Their dry pasta and sauce sachets are surely from Continental but with some cheaper ingredients.

    • dasher86 on 10/12/2021 - 16:02
      +2

      It really depends how their manufacturing lines are set up, and how hard it is to maintain a bill of material for every type of SKU going through the plant.
      A lot of the time it's easier to run the same product through with different packaging rather than stopping production to use different ingredients etc.
      Sometimes it doesn't make sense to use 'cheaper' ingredients.
      But yes for some products like let's say frozen veggies there is a grading process.

  • WizMuncher on 10/12/2021 - 07:06
    +2

    There pies and sausage rolls are Mrs Macs.

  • lgacb08 on 10/12/2021 - 22:13
    +2

    Pepsico has been producing smiths snack for Aldi for ages, their plant has extra capacity so it doesn't hurt making extra for Aldi, albeit with smaller margin. Aldi has similar agreement with many other food manufacturer around the country, in fact you'll find most of their daily staple are australian made, unlike the greedy colesworth who doesn't give a damn about jobs or environment footprint shipping pre-bake bread all the way from Ireland.

    • dasher86 on 13/12/2021 - 18:48

      Yep! A majority of the made in Australia stuff come from the big brands.

  • Ughhh on 13/12/2021 - 18:52

    Who makes Aldi fruit loops? Taste eww compared to the Kellogg's.

  • iand on 14/12/2021 - 23:30
    +1

    I was told years ago it's cheaper to run a production line 24hrs a day than close it for 6hrs, it's also usually cheaper to just change a label than a formula maybe add a bit of extra water but that's about it

    On a side note not Aldi but for anyone who doesn't know the cadbury cooking choc is the same as the original ie: white is dream, milk is dairy milk and dark is 40% old gold and it's quite often cheaper last week dairy milk was $3.50 and the cooking was $3.00

    • mmd on 15/12/2021 - 01:15

      On a side note not Aldi but for anyone who doesn't know the cadbury cooking choc is the same as the original

      which house brand?

      • cookie2 on 23/12/2021 - 06:41

        They mean the Cadbury cooking chocolate is the same as the Cadbury chocolate itself. I can confirm this with the milk chocolate.

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