; 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

For the same reason the company that owns Pepsi owns plastic manufacturing and aerospace parts manufacturing.

They used their money and investments to buy into other similar fields, they have the knowledge and ability to manufacture these parts, so they buy up companies that do, putting them under their brand