• diazespam@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Not as much, no. From my experience massive conglomerates seem to be a Japanese / Korean thing. I used to have a Yamaha dirt bike and keyboard!

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Hitachi doesn’t actually sell Hitachis under the Hitachi brand anymore, even though they have incredible name recognition and a really good reputation as vibrators, because they don’t want the company to be associated with sex toys volcel-judge

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        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