GE still does. To this day can sell you a kitchen appliance, 110v residential electrical outlet, light bulb, air conditioner, CT/MRI scan machine, nuclear reactor, military warship drive train, wind turbine, offshore oil rig, 30mm autocannon, gas turbine powerplant, 10 watt DC hobby electric motor, 10 megawatt three phase industrial electric motor... the list goes on.
Most US conglomerates just learned to make sure all their subsidiaries have distinct names and brands, so the public doesn't instantly associate them with the parent company.
Yes, but they do it through subsidiaries. Smaller companies owned by the larger one.
The vibrator would be branded by CompanyA.
The train branded by CompanyB.
Both A & B are owned by MegaCorp.
yeah that's exactly what I meant, I kinda assumed everyone does it and we just have this meme of japanese/korean companies doing it because they keep the overarching brand on all of it
do american companies do shit like this too, and I just don't know because everything's a subsidiary with a different brand?
GE was/is a good example. They make everything (or did, anyway).
GE still does. To this day can sell you a kitchen appliance, 110v residential electrical outlet, light bulb, air conditioner, CT/MRI scan machine, nuclear reactor, military warship drive train, wind turbine, offshore oil rig, 30mm autocannon, gas turbine powerplant, 10 watt DC hobby electric motor, 10 megawatt three phase industrial electric motor... the list goes on.
Most US conglomerates just learned to make sure all their subsidiaries have distinct names and brands, so the public doesn't instantly associate them with the parent company.
Yes, but they do it through subsidiaries. Smaller companies owned by the larger one. The vibrator would be branded by CompanyA. The train branded by CompanyB. Both A & B are owned by MegaCorp.
yeah that's exactly what I meant, I kinda assumed everyone does it and we just have this meme of japanese/korean companies doing it because they keep the overarching brand on all of it
probably