This how to article will show you how to add more brands / manufacturers to your Magento Commerce store.

Manufacturer / Brand is an attribute setting, so the following procedure is the same for adding any extra fields to other attributes.

> In the Admin panel

> hover over the ‘catalog’ button on the menu bar.

> go to ‘attributes’ >> ‘Manage Attributes’

> find ‘Manafcturers’ and click on the attribute name

> on the left hand side click on the ‘Manage Label/Options’ tab

> underneather Manage Options on the main part of the screen click on ‘Add option’

> enter the text of the new manufacturer you want to add.