• spoon00@lemm.ee
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    1 year 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.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year 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