This is a list of defunct notable consumer brands that are no longer manufactured and no longer available 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". 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
Airlines
Banking and accounting Arthur Andersen Barnett Bank Bank One Corporation BBVA USA Bear Stearns Commerce Bancorp Crocker National Bank Drexel Burnham Lambert First Bank System Fleet Bank Golden West Financial Lehman Brothers National City Corp. TCF Financial Corporation Wachovia Washington Mutual
Energy Clark Brands Enron Gulf Oil Sohio Texaco
Food and beverages Processing, distributing and retail companies
Beatrice Foods Bill Knapp's Blue Valley Creamery Company Borden, Inc. Burger Chef Freezer Queen Pet, Inc. Revco Sexton Foods ShowBiz Pizza Place White Tower Hamburgers
Dairy Golden Guernsey Louis Trauth Dairy Swerve
Pet food Ken-L Ration Ralston Purina
Food items Arch Deluxe Certs Gerber Singles
Alcoholic beverages
Breakfast cereals C3PO's Cereal Crazy Cow Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars Fruit Brute Halfsies Ice Cream Cones Kaboom King Vitaman Kream Krunch Morning Funnies Nerds Cereal Nintendo Cereal System Post Toasties Product 19 Quake Quisp S'mores Grahams Sprinkle Spangles Yummy Mummy
Soft drinks
Heavy manufacturing and processing Columbus Castings Bethlehem Steel Fokker Hawker Aircraft Jeffrey Manufacturing Company McDonnell Douglas North Brothers Manufacturing Company TRW Inc. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Media
Klasky Csupo Filmways HIT Entertainment TV Ano 30 The WB New World Pictures MTM Enterprises Screen Gems Gramercy Pictures Fox Kids
Retail Chain stores
Clothing and accessories Avenue Elgin National Watch Company I. Magnin Jean Lassale Structure (clothing brand)
Consumer electronics and software Apple Newton Apple QuickTake Commodore International Compaq Gateway 2000 iPod Microsoft Band Microsoft Kin Microsoft Lumia RCA Windows Mobile Windows Phone Zune Zune HD
Home consumer products Burma-Shave Darlie Gleem Sani Flush Wisk
Photography Instamatic Land Camera Minolta
Toy manufacturers Coleco Kenner Products National Amusement Devices Trendmasters
Railroads
Shipping Hanjin Shipping Union Company
Telecommunications 10-10-321 Adelphia Communications Corporation AT&T Broadband Bell System Cablevision Cingular Wireless GTE MCI Inc. Northwestern Bell Ohio Bell Pacific Northwest Bell Qwest South Central Bell Southern Bell Tele-Communications Inc. US West
See also
Lists of brands List of defunct breweries in the United States List of defunct department stores of the United States McDonald's Deluxe line New Coke
References