Hi,
If you create a menu item of the type "products listing" and select a brand in the "main category" setting of that menu item, you'll get a menu item displaying the products of that brand. You can enter that URL in the "canonical URL" setting of that brand in your HikaShop backend.
Then, make sure the "force canonical URLs on listings" is set to "use canonical URL if specified" in the HikaShop configuration:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/5...ig.html#features_sef
This way, HikaShop will use the canonical URL of the brand when you click on a brand link from the product page of a product of that brand. And thus HikaShop won't have to use the default brands listing menu item and thus the breadcrumbs won't have that menu item page.