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.
Automobiles
- American Motors
- Austin
- Checker Motors Corporation
- Dadi Auto
- Daewoo Motors
- DeLorean Motor Company
- De Soto
- De Tomaso
- Edsel
- Facel Vega
- Gurgel Motores
- Hispano-Suiza
- Holden
- Hudson Motor Car Company
- Jensen Motors
- King Midget
- LaSalle
- Leyland Motors
- Matra
- Mercury
- Oldsmobile
- Packard
- Plymouth
- Pontiac
- Saab
- Saturn Corporation
- Simca
- Stanley Motor Carriage Company
- Studebaker
- Thunderbird
- Talbot
- Trabant
- Wartburg
- Xiali
- Xinkai
- Yellow Cab Company
Airlines
Banking and accounting
Energy
Food and beverages
Processing, distributing and retail companies
Dairy
Pet food
Food items
Alcoholic beverages
- Abner-Drury Brewery
- $1,000 Beer
- Ashland Beer
- Atherton Whiskey
- Braumeister Beer
- Billy Beer
- Boston Club Lager
- California Cooler
- Chief Oshkosh Beer
- Cream City Beer
- Falk Beer
- Falstaff Beer
- Gipfel Union Beer[3]
- Goebel Beer
- Jung Beer
- Krug Beer
- Metz Beer
- Obermann Beer
- Pfaff's Beer
- Storz Beer
- Walter's Beer
- Willow Springs Sour Mash Whiskey
Breakfast cereals
Soft drinks
- Apotekarnes Cola
- Aspen Soda
- Beep
- Bing
- Burple
- Cavan Cola
- Coca-Cola C2
- Corona
- Crystal Pepsi
- Delaware Punch
- dnL
- Double Seven
- Dr. Nut
- Fanta Citrus
- Fruit Spring
- Hires Root Beer
- Hubba Bubba soda
- Jazz
- Jolt
- Josta
- Kick
- Leed
- Like Cola
- Lurvills Delight
- Northern Neck Ginger Ale
- OK Soda
- Orbitz
- Pepsi Kona
- Pepsi Raw
- Quatro
- Rondo
- Sierra Mist
- Silver Spring Soft Drinks
- Slice
- Squeezit
- Storm
- TaB
- Tab Clear
- Teem
- Vault
- Virgin Cola
- XL Cola
Heavy manufacturing and processing
Media
Retail
Chain stores
- Ames Department Stores
- B. Dalton
- Bed Bath & Beyond
- Big Bear Stores
- Blockbuster LLC
- Bombay Company
- Borders
- Builders Square
- Carter Hawley Hale Stores
- Checker Auto
- Child World
- Circuit City
- CompUSA
- Computer City
- DEKA (New Zealand)
- The Denver Dry Goods Company
- Eaton's
- Eckerd Pharmacy
- Elder-Beerman
- Fishers_Big_Wheel
- Fred Schmidt
- Fretter
- F. W. Woolworth Company
- Fred's
- Gadzooks
- Gart Sports
- Globe Discount City
- Gold Circle
- Gottschalks
- The Great Indoors
- Hill and Stewart
- Hills Supermarkets
- Hollywood Video
- HomeBase
- H. H. Gregg
- Incredible Universe
- KB Toys
- Kragen Auto
- Lechmere
- The Limited
- Lionel Kiddie City (1980-1993), Lionel Playworld (1969-1993), Lionel Toy Warehouse (1969-1990)
- Lowe's
- Manga Store
- Media Play
- Microsoft Store (retail)
- Musicland
- Target Canada
- The May Department Stores Company
- Mervyn's
- Montgomery Ward
- Murray's Discount Auto
- OnCue
- Pace Membership Warehouse
- Pamida
- Payless Cashways Building Materials, Furrow Building Materials, Lumberjack Building Materials,Hugh M. Woods Building Materials, Knox Lumber, Somerville Lumber, Contractor Supply
- Pier 1 Imports
- Phar-Mor
- Pic 'N' Save
- Radioshack
- Rite-Aid
- Sam Goody
- Sears Canada
- Shopko
- Shucks Auto Supply
- Silo
- SoundTrack
- Steve & Barry's
- Suncoast Video
- Sports Authority
- TG&Y
- Toys "R" Us
- Tweeter
- Ultimate Electronics
- Waldenbooks
- Western Auto
- Woodward & Lothrop
- Zayre
- Zellers
Clothing and accessories
Consumer electronics and software
Home consumer products
Photography
Toy manufacturers
Railroads
Shipping
Telecommunications
See also
References
- ↑ "consumer brand". dictionary.cambridge.org. 2025-09-10. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
- ↑ Gazel, Neil R. (1990). Beatrice: From Buildup through Breakup. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01729-2.
- ↑ Charles Gipfel Milwaukee, Wisconsin Early Stoneware
- 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.
- ↑ Evers, Joris (January 6, 2005). "Microsoft to phase out Pocket PC, Smartphone brands | Hardware". InfoWorld. Retrieved July 14, 2011.