The companies I work for produce components and product for other manufacturers. The fact is that many things are manufactured by companies who's name never appears on the final product, documentation or packaging. Some manufacturers are merely assemblers of other peoples product and others simply pay other people to produce product (product, documentation and packaging, the whole complete thing) for them. Such are the commercial realities of the world.

One company I work for is a minor production partner helping to produce a product which is branded by many companies. The product has a 70% share of the global market and yet is sold under many names at many prices. This is just how it is.

A old respected name branded product sometimes isn't all it seems. So for me badge snobbery is often rather silly, as is looking down on the new boy who's probably been making the thing for others for decades anyway.