As the author says, "Go buy a Schick..." Which is produced by a company that is largely owned by the same investment firms that own Gillette. Nobody gets hurt when you switch your brand loyalty from one brand to another. The same number of razor blades are still being sold and the same people are still profiting off of their sale. Not so sure about that. Schick is produced by Edgewell and Gillette by P & G, which are separate companies.
You can also buy a Bic, made by a French company, Société Bic, which, though public, is still dominated by the family that founded it.
"Not so sure about that. Schick is produced by Edgewell and Gillette by P & G, which are separate companies. "
I didn't say the razors were produced by the same companies, I said that whichever company you buy your blades from it is largely owned by the same investment firms that own the company that you are boycotting.
An interesting paper that documents the web of shared corporate ownership:
The Network of Global Corporate Control
Abstract
The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.