; how and why does a company like yamaha produce and manufacture professional grade music equipment and professional grade boat engines, two completely different things?

Question

Like you don’t see Gibson branded cars.

In: Economics

Answer 1

It’s a conglomerate, a “chaebol” in Korean (where corporations like Samsung are like this); a big company composed of many subsidiaries. Sony is another example: they make TVs and other electronics (like PlayStations), but they also make movies and TV (like Ghostbusters and “Breaking Bad”) and even sell insurance in Japan.