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The guiness book of world records was commissioned by the very same “guiness”.
I used to have lunch in a ramen place in Tokyo that only had one style and served nothing else. No big, medium, small or anything else. It was always crowded.
Mold-A-Rama originally made novelty molding machines but now just restores and services existing ones.
[Cool radio story/article about the company](http:// https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/moldaramarama-the-secrets-behind-chicagos-plastic-souvenir-empire/ffca57ed-ed0c-441f-a136-3f29a337c2a2/amp?espv=1)
A company I dearly love is American Beauty. It has been around for over 100 years, and (I believe) it is the only company that manufactures handheld soldering irons that are really big and powerful.
How about one of the major utility companies? Exelon, For example, sells electricity, which does not come in different colors or sizes.
Or maybe a cable provider like Dish (Xfinity wouldn’t count since they also sell internet and phone service).
I take Back my Exelon suggestion. I get my electricity from PECO, which is a subsidiary of Exelon. PECO provides both my electricity and my natural gas.
Also, Google tells me that Dish also provides internet, so scratch that suggestion also.
Maybe there’s some utility somewhere in the world that sells only electricity, or only internet, etc. Would a Chinese state owned utility count?
120 and 240.
Yes but that’s like buying 2 pairs of shoes instead of one. The electrons are still the same size.
I was going to nominate The Economist, producing the magazine (although they insist its a newspaper) since 1843, but it turns out they do a few other things these days as well.
Rubik’s Cube?
Not even close. Ernő Rubik also came up with Rubik’s Snake, Rubik’s Magic*, etc.
If you mean just the maker of the Cube itself, the original maker was Ideal Toy company which hardly made just the one item.
(I have owned all 3 of these.)
When they first started out possibly but now they offer various sizes and shapes. 3x3, 4x4, pyramid, etc.
Rubik’s Store.
Apparel, flash drives, games, etc.
I think to qualify you should be able to call the company and say “I’ll take 5 please” and they know exactly what you’re ordering without asking any further questions.
That sounds like it should/could be right, but I’m having difficulty of thinking of any, at least in regards to whisky. All the distilleries that come to mind have various agings of their whisky. Brandy seems like it would be more easy to find, but I’m not a brandy drinker.
Given the criteria, I think the only contenders would be start ups, who haven’t yet had the resources to branch out.
I nominate the Drop Stop Seat Gap Filler (saw it on Shark Tank) that fills the gap between the seat in your car & the center console, thereby preventing french fries, pens, cell phones, etc from falling into the crack.
I thought he was talking about the Guinness Book of World Records. But that’s no good because they have different versions every year.
Did Grey Goose make anything else before it was bought by Bacardi? Did the flavored vodka craze happen before or after the acquisition? I guess even then, it doesn’t count since Grey Goose came in different sized bottles.
One thing that almost became a candidate was during the closing days of Yahoo, there was briefly a plan that it would have spun off one of its auxiliary minor product units that would have instantly been worth $30B. The product unit had minimal users, minimal revenue, and also all of Yahoo’s Alibaba and Yahoo Japan shares. The product unit to be spunoff was purely there as an IRS dodge but then the IRS nixed the plan and Yahoo spun off Altaba as a pure stock holding company (side note: Altaba still has a CEO, Thomas J. McInerney. What the hell does he do all day? log into a computer and confirm “yup, the shares are still all there”?).
The Guiness Book is not owned by the brewery and hasn’t been for years. The book is currently published by the Jim Pattison Group and it’s not their only product.
Unless the Swiss Army Watch comes with a bunch of James Bond gadgets I’m not buying one.
YKK the Japanese zipper company. As far as I know they just make zippers.