While it sounds absurd at face value, the realities of marketing are quite different. As specially on a global scale.
In the US, we have the same ice-cream called by different company names on the east coast and the west coast.
I knew someone whose mother worked in a soup canning plant. They would finish their run of the major brand. Then they would continue, placing different labels on the same cans of soup.
As I have been given to understand it, there are several known brands of DE blades that are just re-branded blades.
It is thought that King C. Gillette DE blades are re-branded Gillette Platinum's, primarily intended for the US market.
A member on this forum has pointed out that the only blades from the PPI plant that were intended for sale in Russia were the Sputnik and Rubie. All the others are produced for export.
As such, you really could have the same blade rebranded for sale in different countries.
Starting off... when blades were really manufactured in their original countries, they were made of a particular steel. When manufacturing is moved to another country, are they still using that same steel? Very doubtful?
The PPI plant produces many different blades. How many different types of steel are used in the PPI plant? Not many, I guess?
Then you take brands that have many varieties of blades, like Lord, Super-Max and Treet. I really doubt whether these are really completely different blades.
Consider also, the complete lack of transparency of the companies themselves. Many of them do not even operate websites. Others that do, say very little concerning their own different blades.
Very few industries operate today in this fashion...
Just for the record, <looks all around cloak-and-dagger style> I don't find it absurd at all.
In the thread I was referring to, the original poster (I'm convinced) was just reposting what the author had posted on a Russian shaving themed site... similar to Reddit.
He initially posted the link which was taken down by moderators due to forum rules.
However, I copied the link beforehand and followed the crumb trail to the Russian site. Then using the Chrome browser and the magic of Google translate, I read through the whole thing plus postings and questions that followed. It certainly makes for interesting reading if you're curious about DE blades like myself. But to get all the meat, it's necessary to scroll down, wade through the comments and 'expand' some of the thread answers.
If you think it might interest you, let me know and I'll be happy to PM the link so you may browse/read at your leisure.
edit: some gets lost in translation. For example, satellite is Sputnik but vest, I have no idea.
Also, he wrote that the St. Petersburg plant gets steel from 3 different suppliers.
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