{ "schemaVersion": "1.3.0", "language": "en", "slug": "kirkland", "brandKey": "kirkland", "canonicalName": "Kirkland", "canonicalUrl": "https://worldbrand.ai/brand-wiki/kirkland", "jsonUrl": "https://worldbrand.ai/brand-wiki/kirkland/json", "markdownUrl": "https://worldbrand.ai/brand-wiki/kirkland/md", "name": "Kirkland Signature", "oneLiner": "Kirkland Signature is Costco Wholesale's private-label brand, sold through Costco warehouses and online channels across food, beverages, household essentials, apparel, health products, and other merchandise.", "summary": "Kirkland Signature is the principal private-label brand of Costco Wholesale. It is sold primarily through Costco warehouses and Costco's online channels, rather than through a conventional network of independently operated branded stores. The name covers a broad assortment that can include packaged and fresh foods, beverages, snacks, coffee, wine and spirits in permitted markets, vitamins and supplements, personal-care products, cleaning supplies, paper goods, pet products, apparel, luggage, home furnishings, small appliances, batteries, and selected seasonal merchandise.\n\nThe brand is designed around Costco's warehouse-club model: large pack sizes, limited assortment, high inventory turnover, and prices intended to compare favorably with national brands. Costco generally develops specifications for products, works with outside manufacturers, and sells the resulting goods under the Kirkland Signature name. Manufacturing therefore varies by product and market; Kirkland is not a single vertically integrated producer. Some items are made by established manufacturers, but public claims about particular national-brand equivalents are often product-specific and should not be treated as a general corporate relationship.\n\nKirkland's value proposition combines quality control, scale purchasing, and Costco's membership-based distribution. The brand can reduce dependence on national suppliers, provide Costco with greater control over assortment and pricing, and support customer-perceived membership value. For shoppers, the appeal is typically a combination of familiar everyday categories, generous quantities, and a premium-versus-budget positioning that emphasizes practical quality rather than extensive advertising or celebrity endorsement.\n\nThe portfolio is intentionally wide. Food and beverage products help drive regular warehouse visits, while household, apparel, health, and personal-care products extend the brand into recurring and discretionary purchases. Product availability, formulations, packaging, and naming can change by country, supplier, regulation, and season. Some lines are permanent, while others are limited, seasonal, or periodically reformulated.\n\nKirkland Signature should be distinguished from Kirkland's, the former U.S. home-decor retail company, Kirkland & Ellis, and businesses associated with the city of Kirkland, Washington. In this dossier, the subject is Costco's private label. The brand remains active as part of Costco's retail operation; no separate public listing or independently reported corporate financial statements apply to the brand itself.\n\nKirkland Signature is the private-label brand developed and marketed by Costco Wholesale Corporation. The name is derived from Kirkland, Washington, which was Costco's corporate headquarters when the brand was introduced. Costco launched Kirkland Signature in 1995 as a unified store-brand identity intended to replace a collection of separate private labels and to give members a consistent quality signal across a broad range of merchandise. The brand is therefore not an independent Canadian company; “Kirkland Signature Kirkland” is best understood as a market-specific reference to Kirkland Signature products sold through Costco in Canada.\n\nThe line covers a wide assortment of consumer goods. Food products include coffee, bottled water, snacks, prepared foods, pantry staples, canned goods, meat, seafood, bakery products, wine where permitted, and pet food. Non-food categories include paper products, cleaning supplies, laundry products, personal care items, vitamins and supplements, diapers, batteries, clothing, luggage, household furnishings, and selected appliances and other durable goods. Product availability varies by country, province, season, regulatory requirements, and supplier arrangements.\n\nKirkland Signature's positioning combines private-label pricing with standards intended to meet or exceed comparable national-brand products. Costco commonly presents the line as a value-oriented alternative rather than as a low-quality generic. The operating model relies on Costco's membership warehouses, e-commerce channels, centralized purchasing, high-volume procurement, limited assortment, and relatively low merchandising overhead. Costco also uses outside manufacturers and suppliers, so the brand does not represent a single manufacturing company or one uniform production site. Formulations, package designs, suppliers, and product specifications can change over time.\n\nIn Canada, Kirkland Signature is distributed primarily through Costco Wholesale warehouse locations and Costco's Canadian online channel. Canadian products may differ from products carrying the same name in the United States or elsewhere because of Canadian labeling rules, ingredient requirements, bilingual packaging, taxation, logistics, and local sourcing. The Canadian market is consequently one national-market expression of a broader international private-label system, not a separately incorporated brand.\n\nThe brand's importance to Costco extends beyond individual products. It supports member loyalty, gives Costco greater control over product specifications and pricing, and helps differentiate Costco from other warehouse clubs and mass retailers. Its breadth also creates exposure to ordinary private-label risks, including recalls, supplier changes, regulatory scrutiny, and product-specific complaints. Such events concern particular Kirkland Signature products or suppliers rather than necessarily indicating a problem with the entire brand. No separate public-company financial statements or standalone stock listing exist for Kirkland Signature; its commercial performance is incorporated into Costco's broader reporting.\n\nThe portfolio is intentionally wide. Food and beverage products help drive regular warehouse visits, while household, apparel, health, and personal-care products extend the brand into recurring and discretionary purchases. Costco has continued to use the line across its warehouse and e-commerce businesses rather than operating Kirkland Signature as an independent retail chain. Kirkland Signature entered and expanded in international Costco markets, including Canada. Canadian distribution is shaped by Costco Wholesale's local warehouse network and online operations. Products sold in Canada may have different packaging, ingredients, sizes, suppliers, or availability from similarly named products in the United States. Canadian labeling and regulatory requirements, including bilingual presentation where applicable, also affect the market expression of the brand.\n\nThe brand has no separate listed entity, management team, or independently reported public financial results. It remains a Costco-controlled private label. Its history is therefore closely connected to Costco's broader warehouse-club expansion, procurement system, membership model, and international retail operations. Product-specific recalls or regulatory actions can occur, as with other large private-label portfolios, but they should be assessed at the level of the affected item, supplier, and market rather than automatically treated as evidence about the entire Kirkland Signature range.\n\nThe portfolio is intentionally wide. Food and beverage products help drive regular warehouse visits, while household, apparel, health, and personal-care products extend the brand into recurring and discretionary purchases. Product availability varies by market, and Canadian distribution in particular may differ in packaging, ingredients, sizes, suppliers, and labeling requirements from the United States.", "aliases": [ "Kirkland Signature", "Kikland Signature", "Kirkland Brand", "Kirkland Costco", "Kirkland Kirkland Signature", "Kirkland Signature brand", "カークランドシグネチャー", "カークランド", "カークランド コストコ", "Kirkland Signature private label", "Costco Kirkland Signature", "コストコ カークランド", "Kirkland Signature Costco", "Kirkland Signature (Costco)", "Kirkland Signature Kirkland" ], "entityType": "retailer_or_private_label", "l1Slug": "consumer-staples", "l1": "Consumer Staples", "l2Slug": "food-beverage-tobacco", "l2": "Food, Beverage & Tobacco", "l3Slug": "food-products", "l3": "Food Products", "l4Slug": "food-other", "l4": "Other Food Brands", "country": "United States", "headquarters": "Issaquah, Washington, United States", "operatingMarkets": [ "United States", "Canada", "United Kingdom", "Mexico", "Japan", "South 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beverages", "Meat and seafood", "Eggs and dairy products", "Vitamins and supplements", "Clothing and footwear", "Paper products and household essentials", "Pet food and pet supplies", "Food and beverages", "Fresh, frozen, and prepared foods", "Paper goods and household cleaning products", "Apparel and footwear", "Automotive, outdoor, and seasonal merchandise", "Beverages", "Wine and spirits in selected markets", "Pet products", "Batteries and selected household goods", "Luggage and home furnishings", "Coffee and tea", "Bottled water and beverages", "Wine, beer, and spirits where available", "Pantry foods and snacks", "Vitamins, supplements, and over-the-counter health products", "Diapers and personal-care products", "Laundry products and detergents", "Batteries", "Packaged foods and pantry staples", "Cooking oils and ingredients", "Vitamins and nutritional supplements", "Over-the-counter health products", "Cleaning and laundry supplies", "Diapers", "Pet food", "Cleaning and household supplies", "Batteries and office supplies", "Groceries and prepared foods", "Coffee, bottled water, snacks, nuts, eggs, butter, meat and seafood", "Wine, spirits and other beverages", "Paper goods, bath tissue, diapers and household consumables", "Laundry detergent, cleaning products and batteries", "Vitamins, supplements, personal care and beauty products", "Cookware, storage, home goods and selected sporting goods", "Snacks and confectionery", "Paper goods and household supplies", "Apparel, shoes, and accessories", "Diapers and family-care products", "Batteries and small household consumables" ], "flagshipOfferings": [ "Kirkland Signature nuts and snacks", "Kirkland Signature olive oil", "Kirkland Signature coffee and beverages", "Kirkland Signature vitamins and supplements", "Kirkland Signature diapers and household paper products", "Kirkland Signature bottled water", "Kirkland Signature paper products", "Kirkland Signature clothing and softlines", "Kirkland Signature pet food", "Kirkland Signature food and pantry products", "Kirkland Signature household consumables", "Kirkland Signature apparel and luggage", "Kirkland Signature pet products", "Kirkland Signature diapers and baby-care products", "Kirkland Signature nuts, snacks and pantry foods", "Kirkland Signature batteries", "Kirkland Signature rotisserie chicken and other prepared foods", "Kirkland Signature wines and spirits", "Kirkland Signature laundry and household products", "Kirkland Signature packaged foods", "Kirkland Signature cooking oils", "Kirkland Signature Extra Virgin Olive Oil", "Kirkland Signature nuts and snack foods", "Kirkland Signature clothing and activewear", "Kirkland Signature paper towels and toilet paper", "Kirkland Signature spirits and wine" ], "positioning": "A broad, value-oriented private label positioned to deliver dependable quality and large-format value through Costco's membership warehouse model, with product specifications and quality positioned against national brands.", "wikiPathKey": "Kirkland_Signature", "wikiTitle": "Kirkland Signature", "wikidataId": null, "sameAs": [ "https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature.html", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland_Signature" ], "claimStatus": "unverified", "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T12:15:36.831Z", "generatedAt": "2026-10-14T14:35:31.823Z", "executives": [ { "name": "Ron Vachris", "title": "President and Chief Executive Officer of Costco Wholesale Corporation", "isCurrent": true, "startYear": 2024, "endYear": null }, { "name": "Claudine Adamo", "title": "Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Merchandising, Costco Wholesale", "isCurrent": true, "startYear": null, "endYear": null }, { "name": "Jim Sinegal", "title": "Costco co-founder and former chief executive officer; executive sponsor of the Kirkland Signature consolidation", "isCurrent": false, "startYear": null, "endYear": 2012 } ], "news": [ { "headline": "Costco Canada recalls Kirkland Signature infant formula", "year": 2019, "summary": "Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. recalled Kirkland Signature Non-GMO Infant Formula for Babies Sensitive to Lactose due to possible Cronobacter contamination. Consumers were advised to discard the product or return it to the place of purchase. No illnesses had been reported in connection with the product.", "tags": [ "scandal" ], "isScandal": true, "sourceUrl": "https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/10/26/costco-brand-infant-formula-recalled-due-to-possible-bacteria-contamination/" }, { "headline": "Costco faces lawsuit over Kirkland tequila labeling allegations", "year": null, "summary": "A proposed class-action complaint reportedly alleged that certain Kirkland tequilas marketed as made from 100% Blue Weber agave contained ethanol not derived from agave. The allegations are not findings of fact, and the available reference does not establish the case's outcome.", "tags": [ "scandal", "lawsuit" ], "isScandal": true, "sourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/1oxh8fe/costco_sued_over_allegedly_falsely_advertising/" }, { "headline": "Allegations concerning Kirkland tequila's agave-origin labeling", "year": null, "summary": "A proposed lawsuit alleged that certain Kirkland tequilas advertised as made from 100% Blue Weber agave contained material amounts of ethanol from non-agave sources. The available reference reports allegations only and does not establish liability or a final disposition.", "tags": [ "scandal" ], "isScandal": true, "sourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/1oxh8fe/costco_sued_over_allegedly_falsely_advertising/" }, { "headline": "Kirkland Signature reaches its thirtieth anniversary", "year": 2025, "summary": "Media coverage marked three decades of the brand's development into one of retail's largest and most influential private labels.", "tags": [ "other" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.grocerydive.com/news/costco-kirkland-signature-private-brand-30-years-old/760002/" }, { "headline": "Kirkland Signature estimated at approximately $58 billion in 2023 sales", "year": 2025, "summary": "A marketing-industry analysis estimated that Kirkland products generated about $58 billion in 2023 and represented approximately one quarter of Costco revenue. The figure is a third-party estimate and should not be treated as audited standalone brand reporting.", "tags": [ "other" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.themarketingsage.com/how-kirkland-signature-became-the-most-formidable-brand/" }, { "headline": "Kirkland Signature chocolate chips return after an extended absence", "year": 2025, "summary": "Media reports said Costco shoppers observed the return of a popular Kirkland Signature chocolate-chip product after it had reportedly been unavailable for about two years.", "tags": [ "product_generation" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/costco-just-brought-back-beloved-112400853.html" }, { "headline": "A previously unavailable Kirkland Signature item begins returning to Costco shelves", "year": 2025, "summary": "A consumer-news report described the gradual reappearance of a Kirkland Signature item that shoppers said had been missing for approximately two years. The report did not establish a broader corporate product recall or discontinuation policy.", "tags": [ "product_generation" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.dexerto.com/food/popular-kirkland-signature-item-missing-for-two-years-is-finally-coming-back-3397477/" }, { "headline": "Kirkland Signature marks three decades as Costco's unified house brand", "year": 2025, "summary": "Trade and marketing coverage highlighted the brand's thirtieth anniversary and its evolution from a consolidated private-label identity into a cross-category house brand.", "tags": [ "other", "campaign" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://digitalagencynetwork.com/best-costco-marketing-strategies-campaigns-behind-costcos-global-success/" }, { "headline": "Kirkland Signature reaches its 30th anniversary as Costco’s private-label engine", "year": 2025, "summary": "Trade coverage described Kirkland Signature as a major contributor to Costco’s value proposition and reported that the label covered hundreds of products across categories including food, household goods, apparel, pet care, wine, and batteries.", "tags": [ "other" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.grocerydive.com/news/costco-kirkland-signature-private-brand-30-years-old/760002/" }, { "headline": "Reports estimate Kirkland Signature at roughly one-third of Costco sales", "year": 2025, "summary": "Press reports citing Wall Street Journal coverage estimated annual Kirkland Signature sales at approximately $86 billion. Costco does not separately report audited brand revenue in the supplied materials, so the figure is a media estimate rather than a company-reported standalone result.", "tags": [ "other" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://qz.com/costco-kirkland-private-label-walmart-target-1851773482" }, { "headline": "Costco continues expanding Kirkland Signature where it sees member value gaps", "year": 2025, "summary": "Coverage of Costco’s strategy described continued investment in Kirkland products when Costco believes it can provide members with an attractive combination of quality, value, and innovation, including as the retailer manages changing input costs and tariffs.", "tags": [ "other" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.thestreet.com/retail/inside-costcos-strategy-to-keep-prices-low-and-loyalty-high" }, { "headline": "Kirkland Signature estimated to generate approximately $56 billion in annual sales", "year": 2024, "summary": "A Fortune report described Kirkland Signature as one of the largest store brands in the world and estimated annual sales at approximately $56 billion. The estimate was not presented as a separately reported Costco financial figure.", "tags": [ "other" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/costco-built-56-billion-kirkland-120000770.html" }, { "headline": "Kirkland Signature launches as Costco's unified private label", "year": 1995, "summary": "Costco replaced numerous earlier house-brand identities with the Kirkland Signature name and a common visual identity.", "tags": [ "product_launch" ], "isScandal": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/business/costco-kirkland-signature" } ], "encyclopedia": { "history": "Kirkland Signature developed as Costco's house brand and became the retailer's principal vehicle for private-label merchandise. Rather than functioning as a standalone consumer-goods company, it is integrated into Costco's merchandising, sourcing, quality-assurance, and membership-retail systems. Costco uses the brand across a large number of product categories, allowing the same name to appear on food, household necessities, apparel, health products, and selected durable goods.\n\nThe brand's operating logic reflects the warehouse-club format. Costco limits the number of items carried in each category, buys at substantial scale, and concentrates sales through its own warehouses and digital storefronts. A private label gives the retailer more control over product specifications, packaging, assortment, and retail pricing than it would have when selling only national brands. It also gives Costco a recognizable product identity that can travel across categories and encourage members to purchase repeatedly.\n\nKirkland Signature products are generally sourced from third-party manufacturers under Costco specifications. Consequently, the brand does not represent one factory, one production method, or one uniform product formula. Suppliers and formulations can change, and products may differ among countries because of local regulations, ingredients, packaging requirements, and market preferences. Statements that a Kirkland product is identical to a particular national brand require product-level evidence and cannot be generalized across the portfolio.\n\nOver time, the assortment expanded beyond core groceries into consumables, health and personal care, pet products, clothing, travel goods, and home merchandise. This breadth makes the label strategically important to Costco: food and consumables support frequent shopping, while apparel and durable categories broaden the reasons for membership visits. Seasonal and limited-run products also allow Costco to refresh the assortment without turning Kirkland into a conventional advertising-led lifestyle brand.\n\nKirkland Signature's public image is consequently tied more to Costco's retail promise than to independent brand communications. Its visibility comes principally from warehouse presentation, packaging, member word of mouth, product reviews, and the purchasing experience. The name is associated with practical value and broad household utility, while the precise quality and sourcing story remains dependent on the individual item. The brand is active and continues to be managed within Costco Wholesale's broader merchandising organization.\n\nKirkland Signature was introduced by Costco in 1995. The name referred to Kirkland, Washington, the city associated with Costco's headquarters at the time. Its creation consolidated several Costco private-label initiatives under one identity and gave the retailer a more recognizable alternative to national brands. The move also fit Costco's warehouse-club model, in which a relatively limited assortment is purchased in large volumes and sold to members at competitive prices.\n\nDuring the following decades, Kirkland Signature expanded from selected grocery and household categories into a wide range of merchandise. Costco used the label for both frequently purchased consumables and higher-value items such as apparel, luggage, furniture, appliances, and other durable products. The brand's products are generally manufactured by third-party suppliers under Costco specifications, meaning that the identity is controlled by the retailer while production is distributed across multiple manufacturers and countries.\n\nThe Kirkland Signature name became a central part of Costco's differentiation strategy. A strong private label can provide the retailer with greater control over assortment, packaging, quality requirements, and pricing than resale of national brands alone. It can also encourage members to return to Costco for repeat purchases and make direct price comparisons less straightforward when the product is exclusive to Costco. Costco has continued to use the line across its warehouse and e-commerce businesses rather than operating Kirkland Signature as an independent retail chain.\n\nKirkland Signature entered and expanded in international Costco markets, including Canada. Canadian distribution is shaped by Costco Wholesale's local warehouse network and online operations. Products sold in Canada may have different packaging, ingredients, sizes, suppliers, or availability from similarly named products in the United States. Canadian labeling and regulatory requirements, including bilingual presentation where applicable, also affect the market expression of the brand.\n\nThe brand has no separate listed entity, management team, or independently reported public financial results. It remains a Costco-controlled private label. Its history is therefore closely connected to Costco's broader warehouse-club expansion, procurement system, membership model, and international retail operations. Product-specific recalls or regulatory actions can occur, as with other large private-label portfolios, but they should be assessed at the level of the affected item, supplier, and market rather than automatically treated as evidence about the entire Kirkland Signature range.\n\nRather than functioning as a standalone consumer-goods company, Kirkland Signature is integrated into Costco's merchandising, sourcing, quality-assurance, and membership-retail systems. Costco uses the brand across a large number of product categories, allowing the same name to appear on food, household necessities, apparel, health products, and selected durable goods. The brand's operating logic reflects the warehouse-club format: Costco limits the number of items carried in each category, buys at substantial scale, and concentrates sales through its own warehouses and digital storefronts. A private label gives the retailer more control over product specifications, packaging, assortment, and retail pricing than it would have when selling only national brands. It also gives Costco a recognizable product identity that can travel across categories and encourage members to purchase repeatedly.", "milestones": [ { "year": null, "title": "Development as Costco's principal private label", "summary": "Kirkland Signature was developed as Costco's main house brand and expanded across food, household, apparel, health, and other merchandise categories. A definitive launch year is not established in the supplied source material.", "sourceUrl": null }, { "year": null, "title": "Expansion across international Costco markets", "summary": "The label became available through Costco operations in multiple countries, including Canada, with product ranges and formulations varying according to local market conditions and regulations.", "sourceUrl": null }, { "year": 1995, "title": "Kirkland Signature introduced", "summary": "Costco introduced Kirkland Signature as a unified private-label identity, named after Kirkland, Washington, consolidating several Costco private-label initiatives under one brand.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature.html" } ], "products": [ { "name": "Kirkland Signature food and snacks", "category": "Food and beverage", "description": "A wide group of packaged, fresh, frozen, and snack products sold under the Kirkland Signature name. Examples can include nuts, baked goods, pantry staples, prepared foods, and seasonal items. Assortment and formulation vary by warehouse, supplier, and country.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature beverages and coffee", "category": "Food and beverage", "description": "Coffee, juices, bottled drinks, and other beverages form an important part of the consumables assortment. Alcoholic beverages may also be sold under the label in markets where Costco is permitted to offer them, subject to local laws and changing product availability.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature vitamins and supplements", "category": "Health and wellness", "description": "The health portfolio includes vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, and related wellness products. These products are marketed through Costco's retail channels and are subject to the regulatory requirements applicable in each market.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature household essentials", "category": "Household consumables", "description": "Household lines include paper products, cleaning and laundry supplies, batteries, storage products, and other recurring-use essentials. Large pack sizes and warehouse distribution are central to the category's value proposition.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature apparel and travel goods", "category": "Apparel and accessories", "description": "The label is also used for clothing, footwear, luggage, bags, and selected accessories. These ranges are often seasonal or assortment-driven, so products and styles may rotate more frequently than core consumables.\n\nThe range extends beyond consumables into clothing, footwear, luggage, furniture, appliances, and other selected durable merchandise. Product assortment is seasonal and market-dependent, and many individual items are sold for limited periods rather than maintained as permanent lines.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature home and pet products", "category": "Home and pet care", "description": "Home merchandise can include furnishings, textiles, small appliances, and seasonal goods, while pet products can include food and care items. Availability depends on Costco's current buying program and local assortment.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature food and beverage", "category": "Food and beverage", "description": "A broad grocery portfolio spanning coffee, bottled water, snacks, pantry staples, prepared foods, bakery items, meat, seafood, and other products. Specific formulations, pack sizes, suppliers, and availability vary by market, including between Canada and the United States.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature household products", "category": "Household consumables", "description": "Everyday household merchandise such as toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, laundry products, cleaning products, food storage items, batteries, and related consumables. These products support Costco's high-volume replenishment model and are commonly sold in large-format packs.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" }, { "name": "Kirkland Signature health and personal care", "category": "Health and personal care", "description": "Products sold under the label include vitamins, supplements, over-the-counter health items, personal-care products, and family-care goods. Availability and permitted claims are subject to the regulatory framework of each market, including Canadian requirements.", "launchedYear": null, "status": "active" } ], "campaigns": [], "scandals": [ { "year": 2019, "title": "Costco Canada recalls Kirkland Signature infant formula", "summary": "Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. recalled Kirkland Signature Non-GMO Infant Formula for Babies Sensitive to Lactose due to possible Cronobacter contamination. Consumers were advised to discard the product or return it to the place of purchase. 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