Resultat för “United Kingdom”

Colgate & Crest 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

New York and Cincinnati own your bathroom shelf.

• Lacalut German pharmacy toothpaste, aluminium lactate. 🇩🇪
• Ajona Stuttgart. A concentrate — one tube lasts months. 🇩🇪
• Weleda Swiss, plant-based, no fluoride options. 🇨🇭
• lavera Hanover natural cosmetics, certified organic. 🇩🇪

Harley-Davidson & Indian 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Milwaukee and Minnesota.

• BMW Motorrad Berlin-Spandau. The GS defined adventure touring. 🇩🇪
• Ducati Bologna. 🇮🇹
• KTM Mattighofen, Austria. Orange, and quick. 🇦🇹
• Triumph Hinckley, Leicestershire. 🇬🇧

Steam 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

PC gaming's storefront, and its DRM.

• GOG CD Projekt's Warsaw store: DRM-free, the games are actually yours. 🇵🇱
• Gamesplanet UK/German retailer selling legitimate keys, often cheaper. 🇬🇧
• Instant Gaming French game key retailer with strong European pricing. 🇫🇷
• Green Man Gaming London-based official key retailer. 🇬🇧

iPhone / Samsung Galaxy 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Premium phones, none of them made here.

• Fairphone Amsterdam-built modular, repairable phone with an 8-year support promise. 🇳🇱
• HMD Espoo-based maker of Nokia phones, including repairable models. 🇫🇮
• SHIFTPHONE German repairable phones with a deposit-return scheme. 🇩🇪
• Nothing London design-led Android phones. 🇬🇧

Domino's & Pizza Hut 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American pizza delivery, in the countries that invented pizza.

• Telepizza Madrid-founded, the biggest non-US pizza chain in Europe. 🇪🇸
• Kotipizza Finland's chain — one of its pizzas won a world championship. 🇫🇮
• Vapiano German fresh-pasta-and-pizza concept, cooked in front of you. 🇩🇪
• PizzaExpress London since 1965. 🇬🇧

Gillette 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The blade cartridge as a business model.

• MÜHLE Saxony since 1945. Safety razors and brushes, made in Germany. 🇩🇪
• Merkur Solingen. The 34C is the safety razor most people start with. 🇩🇪
• Edwin Jagger Sheffield. English razors and brushes. 🇬🇧
• Proraso Florence since 1948. The green tub. 🇮🇹

Microsoft Teams 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The chat app that arrived whether you asked for it or not.

• Element Matrix-based, federated, self-hostable, sovereign-ready. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Talk Chat, calls and screen sharing on infrastructure you control. 🇩🇪
• Stackfield German alternative combining chat, tasks and files. 🇩🇪
• alfaview Karlsruhe video conferencing built for large organisations. 🇩🇪

Discord 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Communities and voice chat, in a walled garden with a data appetite.

• Element Matrix spaces do communities, voice and video, across federated servers. 🇬🇧
• Revolt UK-built open-source Discord-alike, self-hostable. 🇬🇧
• Mumble Low-latency open-source voice chat, still unbeaten for gaming. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Talk Private group calls without an account on someone else's platform. 🇩🇪

Midjourney 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Beautiful images, opaque training data.

• Black Forest Labs (FLUX) Freiburg team behind FLUX; open weights for the smaller models. 🇩🇪
• Stability AI London-based, publishes open image models. 🇬🇧
• Photoroom Paris AI image editing built for product and e-commerce photography. 🇫🇷
• Freepik AI Malaga-based generation bundled with a licensed stock library. 🇪🇸

Vercel / Netlify 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Deploy in seconds, receive an invoice in dollars.

• Clever Cloud Nantes PaaS: git push, it deploys, it stays in the EU. 🇫🇷
• Platform.sh French PaaS with per-branch preview environments. 🇫🇷
• Northflank London platform for containers, jobs and databases. 🇬🇧
• Scaleway Serverless French serverless containers and functions. 🇫🇷

QuickBooks 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Intuit's books, with US tax logic bolted on.

• Sage Newcastle-founded accounting, the European incumbent for SMEs. 🇬🇧
• Odoo Accounting Open-source accounting with localisations for most EU countries. 🇧🇪
• Pennylane French accounting platform built with accountants, not against them. 🇫🇷
• Fortnox Sweden's dominant cloud accounting platform. 🇸🇪

Expedia / Kayak 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

US travel conglomerates wearing many brand names.

• eDreams ODIGEO Barcelona-listed flight booking across Opodo, GoVoyages and eDreams. 🇪🇸
• Kiwi.com Brno-built virtual interlining -- routes no airline would sell you. 🇨🇿
• Omio Berlin multi-modal search across trains, buses and flights. 🇩🇪
• Trainline London rail booking covering most European operators. 🇬🇧

Coursera / Udemy 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Learning platforms with US course economics.

• OpenClassrooms French platform with state-recognised diplomas and apprenticeships. 🇫🇷
• FutureLearn UK platform founded by the Open University. 🇬🇧
• openHPI Hasso Plattner Institute's free German MOOCs on IT and digital health. 🇩🇪
• GoodHabitz Dutch corporate training in 20+ European languages. 🇳🇱

Duolingo 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Gamified language learning, increasingly AI-generated.

• Babbel Berlin-built courses written by actual linguists for European learners. 🇩🇪
• Busuu London platform combining lessons with native-speaker correction. 🇬🇧
• Lingoda Berlin live classes with real teachers, small groups. 🇩🇪
• Mondly Romanian-built app with 40+ languages and VR lessons. 🇷🇴

Gatorade & Powerade 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American sports hydration.

• Isostar Swiss, and the original European isotonic drink from 1977. 🇨🇭
• Dextro Energy German glucose sports nutrition since 1927. 🇩🇪
• SPONSER Swiss sports nutrition used across professional cycling. 🇨🇭
• HIGH5 UK endurance nutrition, informed-sport tested. 🇬🇧

Campbell's 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The soup can Warhol painted.

• Erasco Lübeck since 1931 — the German soup standard. 🇩🇪
• Maggi Swiss since 1872; the seasoning bottle is a European fixture. 🇨🇭
• Vitana Czech soups and seasonings since 1902. 🇨🇿
• Liebig French soups, part of Continental Foods. 🇫🇷

Tampax & Always 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Two Procter & Gamble brands, one aisle.

• einhorn Berlin, organic cotton, and unusually funny packaging. 🇩🇪
• The Female Company Stuttgart, organic cotton, plastic-free. 🇩🇪
• Natracare Bristol since 1989 — the original organic option. 🇬🇧
• Organyc Bologna, 100% certified organic cotton. 🇮🇹

WhatsApp 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Encrypted messages, unencrypted metadata, owned by Meta.

• Olvid French messenger with no server-side directory at all; certified by ANSSI. 🇫🇷
• Element Matrix messaging with encrypted DMs and no phone number required. 🇬🇧
• Wire Berlin-based encrypted messenger, popular in the public sector. 🇩🇪
• Delta Chat Chat over ordinary email; works with any mailbox, no new account. 🇩🇪

Netflix 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Streaming's incumbent, now with adverts.

• MUBI London-based curated arthouse cinema, hand-picked rather than algorithmic. 🇬🇧
• ARTE Free, ad-free European culture, documentaries and drama. 🇫🇷
• Filmin Spanish independent and European film streaming. 🇪🇸
• Viaplay Nordic streaming with strong Scandinavian originals and sport. 🇸🇪

PayPal 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Everyone's fallback wallet, everyone's least favourite fee schedule.

• Mollie Amsterdam payment provider; iDEAL, cards, Bancontact, transparent pricing. 🇳🇱
• Adyen Dutch platform behind much of European enterprise checkout. 🇳🇱
• Klarna Swedish payments, invoicing and instalments. 🇸🇪
• SumUp London-based card readers and online payments for small businesses. 🇬🇧

Celestial Seasonings & Bigelow 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American herbal tea.

• Teekanne Düsseldorf since 1882, and it invented the tea bag as we know it. 🇩🇪
• Yogi Tea Hamburg-based, organic ayurvedic blends. 🇩🇪
• SONNENTOR Waldviertel, Austria. Organic, and unusually transparent about growers. 🇦🇹
• Pukka Bristol organic herbal teas, B-Corp certified. 🇬🇧

Converse, Vans & New Balance 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The casual sneaker canon, all American-owned.

• VEJA Paris. Wild rubber, organic cotton, no advertising budget at all. 🇫🇷
• Superga Turin, 1911. The 2750 is the original. 🇮🇹
• Novesta Partizánske, Slovakia. Vulcanised by hand since 1939. 🇸🇰
• Camper Mallorca, family-run for four generations. 🇪🇸

Levi's & Wrangler 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

San Francisco and Greensboro invented the category and still own it.

• Nudie Jeans Gothenburg. Free repairs for life, and they mean it. 🇸🇪
• MUD Jeans Dutch. You can lease the jeans and send them back to be remade. 🇳🇱
• Kings of Indigo Amsterdam, organic and recycled denim. 🇳🇱
• ARMEDANGELS Cologne, fair-trade certified throughout. 🇩🇪

Amazon Prime Video 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The streaming service bundled with your parcels.

• Filmin Independent European cinema without the upsell carousel. 🇪🇸
• MUBI One curated film a day, plus a deep library. 🇬🇧
• Viaplay Nordic originals, films and live sport. 🇸🇪
• Pathe Thuis Dutch video-on-demand rental from the cinema chain. 🇳🇱

Microsoft Windows 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The desktop, with telemetry and a Microsoft account requirement.

• Ubuntu Canonical's London-run distribution; the most common Linux desktop. 🇬🇧
• openSUSE German-rooted distribution with the excellent YaST admin tooling. 🇩🇪
• Zorin OS Dublin-built and deliberately designed to feel like Windows. 🇮🇪
• Linux Mint The friendliest landing spot for someone leaving Windows. 🇮🇪

Kellogg's & General Mills 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American breakfast, exported with the sugar included.

• Kölln Elmshorn since 1795. Oats, done properly. 🇩🇪
• Jordans Bedfordshire, farm-sourced granola and muesli. 🇬🇧
• Brüggen Lübeck family mill, supplies half of Europe's own-brand muesli. 🇩🇪
• Dr. Oetker Vitalis Bielefeld. The muesli that actually tastes of nuts. 🇩🇪

Slack 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Workplace chat, owned by Salesforce, priced per person per month.

• Element London-based Matrix client used by the French and German governments. 🇬🇧
• Stackfield Munich team collaboration with end-to-end encryption, German servers. 🇩🇪
• Nextcloud Talk Chat and calls built into your own Nextcloud. 🇩🇪
• Twake French open-source Slack-style workspace. 🇫🇷

Adobe Photoshop 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The industry standard, now rented monthly forever.

• Affinity Photo Nottingham-built professional editor; one purchase, no subscription. 🇬🇧
• Krita Dutch foundation's free painting and illustration studio. 🇳🇱
• darktable German open-source RAW workflow, a real Lightroom replacement. 🇩🇪
• Photopea Czech browser-based editor that opens PSD files directly. 🇨🇿

McDonald's & Burger King 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Two American burger chains on every European high street.

• Hesburger Finland's own, and it beats McDonald's at home. The mayonnaise is the point. 🇫🇮
• MAX Burgers Swedish, climate-labels every item on the menu. 🇸🇪
• Quick The Franco-Belgian chain, since 1971. 🇫🇷
• Bembos See Goiko — Madrid-born burger chain now across Spain. 🇪🇸

Hanes & Fruit of the Loom 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American blank tees, made wherever is cheapest.

• Trigema Burladingen. Everything made in Germany, and it says so loudly. 🇩🇪
• Stanley/Stella Brussels. Organic blanks with a published factory list. 🇧🇪
• Continental Clothing UK, Earth Positive carbon-neutral range. 🇬🇧
• Sanetta German children's basics since 1800. 🇩🇪

Instant Pot & Crock-Pot 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American countertop cooking.

• Krups Solingen, now part of Groupe SEB. 🇩🇪
• Tefal French, and the inventor of the non-stick pan. 🇫🇷
• WMF Geislingen since 1853. Pressure cookers that outlive their owners. 🇩🇪
• Moulinex French, the Cookeo is the direct Instant Pot rival. 🇫🇷

Microsoft 365 / Office 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Word, Excel and friends, now rented rather than owned.

• LibreOffice The Document Foundation's free desktop suite; opens and saves Microsoft formats. 🇩🇪
• ONLYOFFICE Riga-built suite with the best OOXML fidelity of the open-source options. 🇱🇻
• Collabora Online Cambridge-based LibreOffice-in-the-browser, self-hostable. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Office Documents, files and collaboration on your own server. 🇩🇪

Google Docs 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Collaborative documents in exchange for total content visibility.

• CryptPad Zero-knowledge collaborative editing -- the server cannot read your document. 🇫🇷
• ONLYOFFICE Docs Collaborative editor you can self-host or use in the EU cloud. 🇱🇻
• Collabora Online Multi-user LibreOffice editing, deployable on your own hardware. 🇬🇧
• Nextcloud Office Docs inside your own Nextcloud, with the same share links you already use. 🇩🇪

Google Search 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Ninety percent of European search, one American company.

• Qwant French search with its own crawler; no tracking, no profiling. 🇫🇷
• Ecosia Berlin non-profit; ad revenue plants trees. Now builds its own index with Qwant. 🇩🇪
• Startpage Dutch anonymised search, plus a proxy that opens results privately. 🇳🇱
• Mojeek Brighton-built independent crawler and index -- genuinely not a Bing wrapper. 🇬🇧

Google Maps 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Navigation in exchange for a permanent location diary.

• OpenStreetMap The community map of the world, stewarded by a UK foundation. 🇬🇧
• Organic Maps Estonian offline OSM navigation; no accounts, no tracking, no ads. 🇪🇪
• Mapy.com Czech maps from Seznam with the best hiking and cycling layers in Europe. 🇨🇿
• HERE WeGo Amsterdam-headquartered mapping used by most European carmakers. 🇳🇱

Adobe Illustrator 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Vectors, by subscription.

• Affinity Designer Vector and raster in one app, bought outright. 🇬🇧
• Linearity Curve Berlin vector design, formerly Vectornator, strong on iPad. 🇩🇪
• Penpot Madrid open-source design platform built on open standards. 🇪🇸

Wrigley's Extra & Orbit 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Chicago owns the checkout counter.

• Mentos Perfetti Van Melle, Breda — Dutch-Italian and family-owned. 🇳🇱
• Vivident Italian gum, same group as Mentos. 🇮🇹
• Fisherman's Friend Fleetwood, Lancashire, since 1865. Still family-owned. 🇬🇧
• Ricola Swiss herbal drops from thirteen Alpine herbs. 🇨🇭

Google Chrome 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The browser that decides what the web standard is.

• Mullvad Browser Swedish anti-fingerprinting browser built with the Tor Project. 🇸🇪
• Waterfox UK-maintained Firefox fork with telemetry removed and legacy add-ons kept. 🇬🇧
• Ghostery Private Browser Munich-based tracker blocking, built into the browser. 🇩🇪
• Vivaldi Norwegian power-user browser (outside the default EU scope). 🇳🇴

Tesla & Ford 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American cars on European roads.

• Volkswagen Wolfsburg. ID series for electric. 🇩🇪
• BMW Munich. 🇩🇪
• Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart. 🇩🇪
• Renault Boulogne-Billancourt. The R5 E-Tech is built in France. 🇫🇷

Weber 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The kettle barbecue, from Illinois.

• LANDMANN Osterholz-Scharmbeck since 1966. 🇩🇪
• Outdoorchef Swiss, and the funnel design genuinely stops flare-ups. 🇨🇭
• RÖSLE Marktoberdorf. Stainless steel, made to last. 🇩🇪
• höfats Allgäu design studio; the Cube and Bowl are award winners. 🇩🇪

Casper & Tempur 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Bed-in-a-box, American edition.

• Emma Frankfurt. Europe's biggest direct-to-consumer mattress brand. 🇩🇪
• bett1 BODYGUARD Berlin, and repeatedly Stiftung Warentest's top pick. 🇩🇪
• Dormeo Slovenian, sold across central Europe. 🇸🇮
• Hypnia French, made in Europe, 120-night trial. 🇫🇷

Keurig & Dunkin' 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American pod coffee and American drip.

• Nespresso Swiss, with an aluminium capsule that Europe actually recycles. 🇨🇭
• Tchibo Cafissimo German capsule system, cheaper per cup. 🇩🇪
• Lavazza A Modo Mio Italian capsules, compostable options. 🇮🇹
• illy iperEspresso Two-stage capsule, genuinely better crema. 🇮🇹

Skittles & Starburst 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Mars owns the pick-and-mix.

• HARIBO Bonn since 1920. Family-owned, and it invented the gummy bear. 🇩🇪
• Katjes Emmerich. All-vegetarian since 2016. 🇩🇪
• Trolli Fürth, Bavaria. 🇩🇪
• Fini Murcia, Spain's biggest sweet maker. 🇪🇸

Nike & Under Armour 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Oregon and Baltimore, worn by most of Europe.

• adidas Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. The three stripes. 🇩🇪
• PUMA The same town, founded by the other brother. 🇩🇪
• Hummel Danish since 1923, and unusually vocal about ethics. 🇩🇰
• Joma Toledo, Spain. Football kit across southern Europe. 🇪🇸

Away & Tumi 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American suitcases with a marketing budget.

• RIMOWA Cologne since 1898. The grooved aluminium case. 🇩🇪
• Delsey Paris since 1946. 🇫🇷
• Roncato Padua, family-owned, made in Italy. 🇮🇹
• TITAN German, part of Bavarian maker Schaumann. 🇩🇪

Wayfair & Ashley Furniture 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American furniture retail, shipped a long way.

• IKEA Älmhult, Sweden. You already know. 🇸🇪
• JYSK Danish, 3,000 stores across Europe. 🇩🇰
• home24 Berlin online furniture. 🇩🇪
• HAY Copenhagen design at reachable prices. 🇩🇰

Tupperware & Ziploc 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American food storage.

• Brabantia Dutch since 1919, 10-year guarantees. 🇳🇱
• Mepal Lochem, Netherlands. Lunchboxes that survive schoolbags. 🇳🇱
• EMSA German, part of Groupe SEB. 🇩🇪
• Rosti Danish, the Margrethe bowl is a design classic. 🇩🇰

Whirlpool & KitchenAid 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Michigan white goods.

• Miele Gütersloh, family-owned, tested to twenty years. 🇩🇪
• Bosch Stuttgart. The European default. 🇩🇪
• Siemens Same group as Bosch, different styling. 🇩🇪
• Smeg Guastalla, Emilia-Romagna. The pastel fridges. 🇮🇹

Goodyear & Bridgestone 🇺🇸🇯🇵 US · JP · utanför EU

American and Japanese rubber on European roads.

• Michelin Clermont-Ferrand since 1889, and it invented the radial tyre. 🇫🇷
• Continental Hanover since 1871. 🇩🇪
• Nokian Tyres Nokia, Finland — it invented the winter tyre in 1934. 🇫🇮
• Semperit Austrian, since 1824. 🇦🇹

Starbucks 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Seattle's idea of what a European café is.

• Lavazza Turin, family-owned since 1895, still Italy's coffee. 🇮🇹
• illy Trieste. One blend, obsessively made. 🇮🇹
• Tchibo Hamburg. Coffee, plus an inexplicable weekly range of other goods. 🇩🇪
• Julius Meinl Viennese since 1862, and the coffee house tradition to go with it. 🇦🇹

Pringles & Lay's 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Kellanova and PepsiCo own the crisp shelf.

• funny-frisch German crisps from Intersnack, since 1965. 🇩🇪
• Chio Also Intersnack. The tortilla chips are the good ones. 🇩🇪
• Croky Belgian crisps, paprika flavour is a national position. 🇧🇪
• Estrella Swedish, and the dill flavour makes sense once you try it. 🇸🇪

Lululemon & Athleta 🇨🇦🇺🇸 CA · US · utanför EU

North American yoga wear at North American prices.

• Odlo Swiss, and the inventor of the modern sports base layer in 1946. 🇨🇭
• Casall Stockholm, training wear and equipment since 1984. 🇸🇪
• Björn Borg Swedish sport and underwear. 🇸🇪
• FALKE Schmallenberg. The sports socks are the quiet standout. 🇩🇪

Hasbro & Mattel 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Rhode Island and California own the toy aisle.

• LEGO Billund, family-owned, and the largest toy company on earth. 🇩🇰
• Playmobil Zirndorf, Bavaria, since 1974. 🇩🇪
• Ravensburger Puzzles and board games since 1883. 🇩🇪
• Schleich Hand-painted figures, Schwäbisch Gmünd. 🇩🇪

Duracell & Energizer 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Two American battery brands.

• VARTA Ellwangen, German battery maker since 1887. 🇩🇪
• ANSMANN Assamstadt. Rechargeables and chargers. 🇩🇪
• Jupio Dutch camera and device batteries. 🇳🇱

Hershey's, Mars & Mondelez 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Three American groups own most of the confectionery aisle.

• Ritter Sport Waldenbuch, family-owned, square, and militant about it. 🇩🇪
• Lindt & Sprüngli Zurich, 1845. Owns its whole chain from bean to bar. 🇨🇭
• Ferrero Alba, Piedmont. Family-owned, Nutella, Rocher, Kinder. 🇮🇹
• Neuhaus Brussels, and the inventor of the praline in 1912. 🇧🇪

Oreo & Chips Ahoy 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Mondelez biscuits, everywhere.

• Bahlsen Hanover since 1889, still family-owned. Leibniz butter biscuits. 🇩🇪
• Lotus Biscoff The speculoos from Lembeke that conquered coffee saucers worldwide. 🇧🇪
• Delacre Belgian biscuits since 1891. 🇧🇪
• Griesson - de Beukelaer German family biscuit maker. 🇩🇪

Pampers & Huggies 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark own the nappy aisle.

• Bambo Nature Danish, Nordic Swan ecolabelled, dermatologically tested. 🇩🇰
• Libero Swedish, from Essity. The Nordic default. 🇸🇪
• Naty Swedish, plant-based materials, no plastic against the skin. 🇸🇪
• LILLYDOO Frankfurt subscription nappies, free of chlorine bleaching. 🇩🇪

Monster & Rockstar 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American energy drinks — though the category's inventor is Austrian.

• Red Bull Austrian, and the company that invented the category in 1987. 🇦🇹
• HELL Energy Hungarian, and the volume leader across Central Europe. 🇭🇺
• Tiger Polish energy drink, dominant at home. 🇵🇱
• Booster German energy drink at supermarket prices. 🇩🇪

Gap, Abercrombie & Ralph Lauren 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American high street, imported wholesale.

• COS Stockholm. H&M's grown-up label. 🇸🇪
• ARKET Also H&M, Nordic and durable. 🇸🇪
• Massimo Dutti Inditex, Galicia. 🇪🇸
• MANGO Barcelona. 🇪🇸

Timberland, Merrell & Crocs 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American footwear for European terrain.

• Birkenstock German since 1774, and the actual original of the shape. 🇩🇪
• MEINDL Kirchanschöring, boots since 1683. Resoleable. 🇩🇪
• LOWA Jetzendorf, Bavaria. Still made in Europe. 🇩🇪
• SCARPA Asolo, Veneto. Mountaineering boots. 🇮🇹

Fossil & Michael Kors watches 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American fashion watches, assembled far away.

• Swatch Biel/Bienne. Swiss made, and the reason Swiss watchmaking survived the 1980s. 🇨🇭
• Junghans Schramberg, Black Forest. The Max Bill is a design classic. 🇩🇪
• NOMOS Glashütte Saxony. In-house movements at a fraction of Swiss prices. 🇩🇪
• Tissot Le Locle since 1853. 🇨🇭

iRobot Roomba & Shark 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American robot vacuums that map your home.

• Vorwerk Kobold Wuppertal since 1883, sold door to door and repaired for decades. 🇩🇪
• Kärcher Winnenden. The yellow machines, and a robot range. 🇩🇪
• Miele Scout Gütersloh, built to the same twenty-year standard. 🇩🇪
• Rowenta Groupe SEB, France. 🇫🇷

Trek, Specialized & Cannondale 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American bikes, in the continent that races them.

• Canyon Koblenz. Direct-to-consumer, which is why the prices work. 🇩🇪
• Cube Waldershof, Bavaria. 🇩🇪
• Bianchi Treviglio, 1885 — the oldest bicycle maker still in production. 🇮🇹
• Pinarello Treviso. Tour de France winners. 🇮🇹

DiGiorno & Totino's 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American frozen pizza. In Europe. Yes.

• Dr. Oetker Ristorante Bielefeld. Europe's frozen pizza benchmark. 🇩🇪
• Wagner Saarland family business, Steinofen range. 🇩🇪
• Gustavo Gusto Munich upstart with a genuinely good crust. 🇩🇪
• Buitoni Italian heritage, Nestlé-owned, made in Europe. 🇨🇭

Purina & Pedigree 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Two American groups feed most of Europe's cats and dogs.

• Josera Bavarian family mill since 1942, makes everything itself. 🇩🇪
• Edgard & Cooper Bruges-based, fresh meat first, compostable packaging. 🇧🇪
• Brit Czech maker with its own factory and vet nutrition range. 🇨🇿
• Yarrah Dutch organic pet food, certified since 1992. 🇳🇱

Miller, Coors & Samuel Adams 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American mass-market lager.

• Budweiser Budvar České Budějovice, state-owned, and the original claim to the name. 🇨🇿
• Augustiner-Bräu Munich's oldest brewery, 1328, and still the locals' choice. 🇩🇪
• Warsteiner Sauerland family brewery since 1753. 🇩🇪
• Heineken Amsterdam, 1864. 🇳🇱

Dasani & Aquafina 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Bottled tap water with an American logo on it.

• Gerolsteiner Volcanic Eifel spring, exceptionally mineral-rich. 🇩🇪
• Mattoni Karlovy Vary mineral water, Czech since 1873. 🇨🇿
• Evian Filtered for fifteen years through the French Alps. 🇫🇷
• San Pellegrino The sparkling one from Lombardy. 🇮🇹

The North Face, Columbia & Patagonia 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American outdoor gear, on European mountains.

• Fjällräven Örnsköldsvik, 1960. G-1000 fabric, waxed not coated. 🇸🇪
• Jack Wolfskin Idstein, Germany. 🇩🇪
• VAUDE Tettnang. Climate-neutral in Germany, and audited about it. 🇩🇪
• Norrøna Norwegian since 1929, family-owned, lifetime warranty. 🇳🇴

Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena & Olay 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American skincare, in a continent full of pharmacies.

• NIVEA Beiersdorf, Hamburg, 1911. The blue tin. 🇩🇪
• La Roche-Posay French thermal spring water, dermatologist-standard. 🇫🇷
• Avène Pierre Fabre, made at the spring in the Cévennes. 🇫🇷
• Bioderma Lyon. Sensibio micellar water is the category original. 🇫🇷

DeWalt, Stanley Black & Decker 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American power tools.

• Bosch Professional The blue ones. Stuttgart. 🇩🇪
• Festool Wendlingen. Expensive, and worth it if you do this for a living. 🇩🇪
• Metabo Nürtingen since 1924. 🇩🇪
• Hilti Schaan, Liechtenstein. Construction-grade everything. 🇱🇮

3M Post-it & Sharpie 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Minnesota and Atlanta own the desk drawer.

• STABILO Heroldsberg. The BOSS highlighter is the original. 🇩🇪
• STAEDTLER Nuremberg, 1835. Still makes pencils in Germany. 🇩🇪
• Faber-Castell Stein, family-owned since 1761. 🇩🇪
• LAMY Heidelberg. The Safari fountain pen. 🇩🇪

Philadelphia & Kraft cheese 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American processed cheese, in the dairy aisle of Europe.

• Almette Hochland, Bavaria. Whipped, and much lighter. 🇩🇪
• Exquisa Karwendel, Bavarian family dairy since 1932. 🇩🇪
• Buko Danish cream cheese from Arla, the farmer-owned cooperative. 🇩🇰
• Boursin Normandy garlic-and-herb, invented 1957. 🇫🇷

Victoria's Secret 🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

An American brand with a complicated decade.

• Hunkemöller Amsterdam since 1886, Europe's largest lingerie chain. 🇳🇱
• Triumph Bad Zurzach, founded in Germany 1886. 🇨🇭
• sloggi Same group, and the everyday European default. 🇨🇭
• Etam Paris since 1916. 🇫🇷

Gerber & Beech-Nut 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American baby food.

• HiPP Pfaffenhofen. Organic since 1956, and stricter than the EU requires. 🇩🇪
• Holle Swiss demeter-certified biodynamic baby food since 1933. 🇨🇭
• Bebivita German, same quality controls as HiPP at lower prices. 🇩🇪
• Babybio French organic, made in Brittany. 🇫🇷

Tommy Hilfiger & Calvin Klein 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Two brands, one New York parent company.

• BOSS Metzingen, Germany. 🇩🇪
• Tiger of Sweden Stockholm tailoring. 🇸🇪
• Sandro Paris. 🇫🇷
• Lacoste French heritage, now under Swiss-based MF Brands. 🇨🇭

Fanta & Sprite 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Orange and lemon-lime, both Atlanta-owned.

• Almdudler Austria's national soft drink: alpine herbs, since 1957, still family-owned. 🇦🇹
• Sinalco Germany's oldest soft drink brand, 1902. 🇩🇪
• Bluna German orange soda with a cult following. 🇩🇪
• Fritz-limo Lemonades from the fritz-kola people, less sugar throughout. 🇩🇪

Heinz & Hellmann's-style US condiments 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Pittsburgh decides what ketchup tastes like.

• Hela Ahrensburg. Curry ketchup is a German food group and Hela invented the good one. 🇩🇪
• Develey Bavarian family mustard and ketchup house since 1845. 🇩🇪
• Bautz'ner Saxon mustard. Eastern Germany will accept no substitute. 🇩🇪
• Amora Dijon mustard and French mayonnaise. 🇫🇷

Coca-Cola & Pepsi 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

The two colas that colonised every fridge on the continent.

• Kofola The Czech cola that outsells Coke on draught at home. Less sweet, more herbal. 🇨🇿
• Fritz-kola Hamburg-born, high caffeine, sold on stubbornness rather than advertising. 🇩🇪
• afri-cola German cola since 1931, back to its original recipe. 🇩🇪
• Cockta Slovenian since 1953, made with rosehip and eleven herbs. No caffeine, no phosphoric acid. 🇸🇮

Jack Daniel's & Jim Beam 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Tennessee and Kentucky, on every back bar in Europe.

• Jameson Midleton, County Cork. Triple-distilled Irish. 🇮🇪
• Becherovka Karlovy Vary herbal bitters, recipe from 1807. 🇨🇿
• Absolut Åhus, Sweden. Everything made in one town. 🇸🇪
• Metaxa Greek brandy blended with muscat wine, since 1888. 🇬🇷

Ben's Original & Minute Rice 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American parboiled rice, in a continent full of risotto.

• Riso Gallo Lombardy since 1856, six generations of the same family. 🇮🇹
• Riso Scotti Pavia, in the middle of Italy's rice country. 🇮🇹
• Oryza German rice brand, part of Euryza in Hamburg. 🇩🇪
• Reis-fit The other German rice standard. 🇩🇪

Yankee Candle & Bath & Body Works 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

American scented candles, in paraffin.

• ipuro German home fragrance, widely stocked and inexpensive. 🇩🇪
• Diptyque Paris, boulevard Saint-Germain, since 1961. 🇫🇷
• Cire Trudon Founded 1643. It supplied candles to Versailles. 🇫🇷
• Millefiori Milano Milan diffusers and candles. 🇮🇹

Procter & Gamble cleaning brands 🇺🇸🇺🇸 US · utanför EU

Ariel, Fairy, Lenor, Flash — one Cincinnati company.

• Henkel (Persil) Düsseldorf since 1876. Persil, Pril, Somat, Bref. 🇩🇪
• Frosch Werner & Mertz, Mainz. Recycled bottles, plant-based surfactants. 🇩🇪
• Ecover Malle, Belgium. The original green cleaning brand. 🇧🇪
• Sonett Baden-Württemberg, fully biodegradable, no enzymes. 🇩🇪