Favourite Brands - and Why?

Porsche- similar outlook
Santoni- experience
Citizen- utility
Toyota- corporate culture
Sperry- experience
Levis- tradition
Donnay- retro innovation
ProKennex- proven utility

wow, for the most part the lists look really high end. maybe you do get what you pay for...

Wrangler pro rodeo jeans - the only jean to ride in (smooth inside leg seam)
Olathe boots- riding
Whites boots - packing
Ford Powerstroke
Apple I-mac - it just does
Pentax
Bridgestone tires -

kind of a sad list. Pretty basic I guess.

Hmm, hard list to follow.

Rite in the Rain--Notebooks
Eleiko--Weightlifting gear
Apple--from a design standpoint only.
Alden--footwear
B.A.D. Bags--duffel bags

Couldn't possibly go through all of them, but one that I keep coming back to:

Crumpler Bags (usually funky, not always my style, but very high quality)

Ping
Adams
Toyota
Izod
Ecco

Panerai (watches)
Brooks Brothers Black Fleece (shirts and khakis)
Woolrich Woolen Mills (jackets)
Canada Goose (parka)
Naked and Famous (jeans)
Peak and HDS (EDC flashlights)
Fratelli Rossetti,Alden, Church's, Tod's(shoes)
Viberg (work boots)
Partagas (Cuban cigars)
Aero Leathers of Scotland(horsehide leather jackets)

Apple (everything)
Goorin Brothers (hats)
Truefitt and Hill (shaving cremes)
Feather (blades)
Dunkin Donuts (coffee)
In-N-Out (burgers)
Brooks Brothers (shirts)
Manhattan Industrial Supply (machine shop supplies)
Dunhill (pipes)

Jeep- We had a Grand Cherokee with 235,000 miles ..It still had the original transmission and engine when we got rid of it.
Tilley
Red Wing
Spyderco
Winchester
Alden
Vintage Gillette and Merkur

Clarks shoes - yes, I used to have their shoes as a kid and still buy them
Marks and Sparks - we have them here but everything is 30% dearer than in UK and they only have a very limited selection of food with no fresh stuff. I don't miss much about the UK but M&S food hall is one thing I really miss. I still buy all my upes, socks and ties there despite the price.
Singapore Airlines - I fly a lot on business and pleasure and almost always use SQ if they do that route, again, despite the price. It's partly because I have Solitaire level FF membership so I get personal attention on the flight, even up the back of the bus, partly even without that the service is streets ahead of most other airlines and partly because I feel safer on an SQ plane in that I know the maintenance has been done properly.
Asahi beer(!)
Absolut vodka
Schweppes mixers

Bill's Khakis
Allen Edmonds

Adidas (great styles all around)
North Face
New Balance (their shoes are simply indestructable)
Montana Sling (thick, durable US made rifle slings)
Leupold (rifle scope)
PalmOlive shave soap & cream
Personna blades (the only blade that doesn't turn my face into shredded cheese)
Gillette DE's (anything pre-1970's)
Browning (though I like the new Winchesters, Weatherby & Sako as well)

I know there are a ton more brands i'm forgetting, so my list is pretty short. I'm also only listing brands that I currently own and use, not brands I wished I owned and used. If that were the case, my list would be much bigger.

Which brands do you instantly trust & have faith in?

My original list went back to this question.

I find it interesting as to what brands didn't make the lists.

For example:
I've owned only HP/Compaq computers going back to the mid 1990's---never had a bit of any problem with them other than one that was way past its usefull service life---there is a 8-9 year old desktop currently running my network--I keep buying them yet feel no particular loyalty or fondness of the HP brand name.

Same goes for the Walmart Great Value picante sauce--its all I ever buy---tastes good-priced right---but would change up in heartbeat if something better that was cheaper came along---yet when it comes to Heinz Ketchup anything else just won't do--even as much as I dispise putting money in John Kerry's pocket.

Apple (computers)
Kifaru (backpacks)
Andrews Custom Leather (holsters)
Allen Edmonds (shoes)
Lucchese (boots)
La Sportiva (hiking boots)
Dillon Precision (reloading)
US Optics (scopes)
Colt, Remington, Glock (firearms)
Snap On (tools)
Surefire (lights)

scottish steve said:

for me
Muji (not for all items, but for many)

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Thanks for that, I have walked past their store loads of times without ever going in. This time, I did go in & bought my first pair of cedar shoe trees http://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&Sec=5&Sub=22&PID=4564

....gillette

joking! Anything Never Summer ever made is pretty good and their industry isn't exactly consistent when it comes to manufacturing. ASUS probably too I haven't had many of their products fail on me. Texas Instruments calculators explode the competition. Carhartt. seems like "brands" nowadays are just an office somewhere that sends orders to manufacturers and distributors so it's hard to say they make good products when they don't really make anything at all.

My favourite non shaving brands:

Clothing:

Brooks Brothers
Samulsholn (suits)
J.Crew
Ralph Lauren Polo
Robert Talbot (ties)
Alden
Allen Edmonds
Sperry
Timberland.
Brooks (running shoes)
Nike

Sunglasses

Maui Jim
Serengeti

Sporting Goods:
Head (skis)
Salomon (bindings)
Technica (ski boots)
Trek (bikes)

Electronics:

Apple (Computer, iPhone)
NAD
KEF (Speakers)
Rotel
Bryston (amplifiers)

Automotive

VW
Mercedes Benz

Travel/Hospitality

Porter Airlines
American Airlines
Fairmont Hotels,
Air New Zealand
Quantas
VIA Rail (Canada's answer to Amtrak).

Rushman2112 said:

Asahi beer(!)

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Had a pint of this on Saturday, not often but once in a while you find a pub in London that has this on draught.

Qantas
Lexus
Bose
Apple
LL Bean
Festool
Llyods Shoes
Rock port Shoes
Yamazaki Single Malt
Sennheiser headphones
Leica cameras
Mont Blanc Pens
Seiko anything
Saddleback Leather
Samsonite Luggage
AMSoil oils
Monster Cable
Pioneer Televisions

This list is all over the place:

Kifaru
Mountain Hardwear
Arc'teryx
Ecco
Maui Jim
J. Crew
Banana Republic
Aveda
Apple
VW
GE
Maytag
H&K
SOG
Ka-Bar
Craftsman
Stranahan's Whiskey
Oskar Blues
Burris optics

Rolex
Mercedes Benz
Bally
LV
Klipsch
Zegna