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
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
Energy
Food and beverages
Processing, distributing and retail companies
- Beatrice Foods[2]
- Bill Knapp's
- Blue Valley Creamery Company
- Borden, Inc.
- Burger Chef
- Freezer Queen
- Pet, Inc.
- Revco
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
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
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
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
- consumer brand dictionary.cambridge.org, 2025-09-10, retrieved 2025-09-13^
- Neil R. Gazel. Beatrice: From Buildup through Breakup. University of Illinois Press, 1990^
- Charles Gipfel Milwaukee, Wisconsin Early Stoneware^