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Originally Posted by turretslug
I never really liked (feel free to interpret as "trusted"....) the way that RS had all sorts of things own-labelled- why not let things for sale be labelled Hunts or Erie or National Semiconductor or whatever, unless perhaps they were "B" grade items that the OEM didn't want going out with the original brand.
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They were trying to promote themselves. As far as I know they didn't use any second-grade units (they weren't Sinclair, selling below-spec transistors and IC's). They had the buying power to ask for branding, and get it.
I recall a rep from Electrolube (suppliers of encapsulating resins, and aerosol cleaners and lubricants) explaining that the Electrolube brand is trusted and their products are often copied, never equalled, "except by RS. We supply to RS but they want their own branding. But when a company offers you a contract to buy 10,000 cans of Fluxclene a year, but they want their own label as part of the deal, you accept."