{"id":76587,"date":"2016-07-25T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=76587"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:50:10","slug":"fascinating-graphics-show-who-owns-all-the-major-brands-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/fascinating-graphics-show-who-owns-all-the-major-brands-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Graphics Show Who Owns All the Major Brands in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All the biggest product brands in the world are owned by a handful of corporation. Food, cleaning products, banks, airlines, cars, media companies… everything is in the hands of these megacorporations. These graphics show how everything is connected.<\/p>\n

Consumer goods <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the supermarket<\/a>\u2014as you can see in the graphic at the top\u2014Mondelez, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Nestl\u00e9, Pepsico, P&G, Johnson&Johnson, Mars, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg’s, and Unilever own everything.<\/p>\n

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This graphic is sightly outdated, but it shows Johnson&Johnson’s brand connections. The graphic on top is up to date.<\/p><\/div>\n

Financial assets<\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn’t stop in the supermarket, of course. Our money is all in the hands of a few megacorporations too.<\/a> Here’s all the stuff that merged into Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo since 1996. Now, according to MotherJones,<\/a> 54% of all the financial assets in the United States are owned by just 10 institutions.<\/p>\n

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Studios and media companies<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TV channels<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Airlines<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cars<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Your beer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Everything else<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This graphic is from 2003 but it shows all the connections between all brands, from liquor to clothing to music labels.<\/p><\/div>\n

Go to Original \u2013 gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All the biggest product brands in the world are owned by a handful of corporations. Food, cleaning products, banks, airlines, cars, media companies… everything is in the hands of these mega corporations. The following infographics show how everything is connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}