For example, since the product range of brands such as Xiaomi is very wide, “Oh, Xiaomi is producing such a thing!” we cannot say.
However, some brands, which we “think” that their scale is not very wide, have produced or are producing products that seem to have nothing to do with them, as if by evasion, so to speak. Let’s see what these interesting products are?
An alternative Toyota product that those who say “I can’t buy a car, pockets are holes” can sew.
Seeing a vacancy in the textile field after World War II, Toyota entered the sewing machine business and has been producing sewing machines ever since.
Samsung’s product range is actually very wide, but isn’t the barbell bar a bit out of place?
Moreover, Samsung even has a clothing store in South Korea.
This is because South Korea’s mega-corporations are not just the image they are known for in the West. They are actually much larger holdings and their business portfolios are rooted in a lot of space.
ACME corp in the Looney Tunes cartoons. In a way they are like.
Peugeot actually entered the business world in 1810 by producing coffee, pepper and salt grinders.
And it still continues to sell. Peugeot’s first car would be produced 69 years later. In 1896, a separate automobile company was established apart from the parent company, and this is the company that is known today. The parent company continues to produce grinders today.
The famous lion figure, albeit in different forms, is also found in the logos of both:
When we think of Casio, the following watches or calculators come to mind:
Apart from these, it also produces a different product that has nothing to do with watches or calculators: musical instruments with keyboards.
Casio was founded in 1946, but the first product it produced was perhaps the most interesting: the ring-shaped cigarette holder.
This product, called the Yubiwa pipe, used to collect the smoke of the user into pellets and free the user’s hand, allowing him to smoke his cigarette comfortably. With the money from this successful product, Casio’s founder Tadao Kashio produced his own calculators when he saw an electric calculator at a fair.
Casio later produced electronic keyboard musical instruments in the 1980s. Later on, it became one of the first manufacturers of both digital and analog quartz watches.
Like Casio watches, Yamaha flutes were indispensable during the school years. So why would a company that manufactures motorcycles also produce musical instruments?
Type “Yamaha” into Google Images and you’ll see more motorcycles or boat engines.
However, Yamaha was founded in 1887 by Torakusu Yamaha, a musician and entrepreneur. In other words, it laid its foundation not with motors but with musical instruments. He has been producing musical instruments such as flute, violin, saxophone, piano, clarinet, drums, guitar (especially bass guitar), organ and drums for many years.
Czech car manufacturer Skoda also has bikes.
It cannot be said that it is a very surprising product because it is a means of transportation, but it is not known that Skoda produces bicycles. The interesting thing is that the company, which sells more than 1 million cars a year, entered the sector in 1895 with the production of bicycles.
Apart from Skoda, some automobile brands such as Mercedes, Aston Martin, Opel and Peugeot also have ties to bicycle production.
Nokia entered the weighing business in 2016.
Acquiring Wihtings, an activity tracking and health products company, for $170 million, Nokia is practically a life coach with these scales. Calling this product a scale can be considered an insult, it’s called “body composition analysis”. If we write the features one by one, it may not fit here.
We know Japan-based Mitsubishi mostly for its cars and air conditioners. However, it is a giant formation operating in seven sectors: finance, banking, energy, machinery, chemistry and food.
The company was originally founded in 1918. Then it branched out, saying splits and mergers. Even their logos have changed. We wanted to put this sharpener in the image, which seems to contradict this size, but is actually proof of how ramified the company is. Yes, they even produce that.
Although we know it with mobile phones, Motorola is basically a radio manufacturer.
When it was founded in 1928, it was a small company that repaired battery-operated radios. It debuted in 1930 as a compact car radio that allowed car owners to enjoy their favorite programmes. For this reason, the brand name should also be suitable for this purpose.
The things that needed to be described in order to brand listening to music on the go by car were more or less clear. While “engine” was used to describe the automobile, “ola” was inspired by the famous music turntables “The Victorola” and in 1930 the Motorola brand was introduced. Even if the output is not a mobile phone, there is still a “signal” involved. It is also a radio manufacturer.
In 2011, it split into two businesses, Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. Motorola Mobility was acquired by Google in 2011. It was sold to Lenovo in 2014.
A Ferrari red hair dryer. It not only took its color, but also its engine.
Maybe your hair won’t ripple in a Ferrari seat, but you can at least experience this feeling with a blow dryer.
This friend with the Lamborghini logo looks like a lawnmower and…
To the golf cart…
But it’s actually a tiny tractor.
As many of you already know, Lamborghini actually entered the market with tractors, not sports cars, but this tractor is pretty interesting.
A company called SDF India sells them in India. It is marketed to wealthy farmers, to people in luxury resorts. It is actually produced by Deutz-Fahr, a German company. There is a partnership.
They even have crawler tractors:
- You’re looking at a 1965 Lamborghini.
AM37, the first speedboat from British luxury automaker Aston Martin:
The boat, which was created as a result of cooperation with the Dutch yacht company Quintessence, especially attracting attention with its minimal design, looks like it came out of Bond movies.
11.2 meters long. The body is carbon fiber. With its 370 horsepower diesel version, its speed can reach up to 44 knots. Its price is 1.64 million dollars. In the higher version, the speed of the boat reaches 50 knots and there are two 520 hp engines. The price of this version is 2.1 million dollars.
Maybe it’s so you can get rid of that smell that lingers on you while eating chips:
Doritos “for some reason” sold products such as shampoo and facial cleansing gel for a while, but fortunately, it has now given up on this bad decision. There may even be people who mistake it for sauce and dip it into chips.
Another similar example to the Doritos case: McDonald’s shower gel.
It resembles mustard sauce rather than duj gel. McFlurry on the right is the name of McDonald’s ice cream products, and it has a shower gel. Whether it is still on the market is a mystery.
If there is a food company that takes care of the hygiene business, but there is no hygiene company that takes over the food business, there is that!
After lasagna, the demand for something with a mint flavor increases after all… Colgate, who stepped into the frozen food industry in the 1960s, took a step back before it spread much. They tried to hide this unique failure as best they could, some company officials claimed that there was no such product, but documents emerged that they actually stepped into the frozen food business, even though it was not a lasagna as written in the box in the image.
The lasagna box in the image does not actually belong to Colgate. Specially designed for a museum where famous brands fail. Because Colgate – unlike other companies in the museum – wanted to hide the product.
- Sources: Aston Martin, Nokiamob.net, Studio Identified, Motoroids, Yamaha, Prospect Magazine, Casio, Auto Evolution, Wikipedia, Wikipedia 2, Wikipedia 3, Wikipedia 4
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