It’s not that surprising if you’ve been to SeaWorld. Busch stuff is everywhere, and they even have a brewery in the place that you can tour for free and load up on Bud.
Well, they did 10 years ago, at least.
Didn’t see that one coming, eh? 
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You are right. I have never seen how they have been able to stay open. Discusting company. They treat their customers like “You are damm lucky we let you shop here.” And they treat their employees like “Ypu are damm lucky we let you work here.”
I guess one way is to buy out the compition. But why shop at macy’s when if you watch the sales you can always go to Norstrums?
It’s been a running joke on many TV shows for years how NBC is owned by General Electric. For example, Alec Baldwin’s character on 30 Rock is “Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming”
they are clients of ours, I could probably scrounge a complete list of GEC holdings with very little issue=)
Hm, lots of the little mall shops are owned by the same 2 overlords… you know, The Limited, Express, Express Mens Express Kids, Bath & Body, Victorias Secret, Justice, Limited Too …
And an amazing number of restaurants are owned by the same overlords also=)
So I guess that information is…not so fresh?
When my brother was in college some forty years ago he and his dorm-mate read a book about how e-e-e-evil ITT Continental was. In the back was an appendix listing all of the holdings it had at the time and one of them was Baskin-Robbins. Being a poor college student, one of dormie’s few pleasures in life was a once a week treat at B-R. He agonized for days, then decided to continue patronizing them. My brother pointed out, “Every man has his price. Yours was a twenty-five cent ice cream cone.”
It’d be even funnier if GE was really owned by the Sheinhart Wig Corporation, like it is on the show.
Take a look at which products Unilever owns.
A partial list:
Ben & Jerry’s
Bertolli
Breyers
Brummel & Brown
Colman Mustard
Country Crock
Hellmann’s
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
Klondike (Klondike bars)
Lipton
Mazola
Ragu
Skippy
Unilever soaps
Wishbone
Looking at the whole list, they seems to own most of the ice cream and margarine aisles.
That’s nothing. The Regina company – still known for their vacuum cleaners – started out as a manufacturer of music boxes.
And Shell Oil was originally an importer of exotic sea shells that realized they could make money selling lamp oil.
Beer school and the hospitality areas are being shut down at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens parks sometime this year, sadly.
With GE now almost a penny stock, Sheinhart Wig might be able to buy it anyway.
United Technologies was always an aerospace-oriented company, formerly called United Aircraft. In addition to Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, and Hamilton Standard, at one time (around 1930) it also owned Vought, Boeing, and United Airlines. Then the anti-trust people went to work. UA became UTC in the 1970’s when it bought Carrier and Otis to diversify its holdings.
Saab started as an aircraft manufacturer (which is less surprising since their recent ad campaign), but it still is. Volvo is also a major aerospace manufacturer.
There are 2 Rolls-Royce companies: The luxury car maker is owned by BMW, but the jet engine business is independent.
Oh, right, more - the DHL package delivery company is owned by the German telephone company.
Mortgage firm Ditech is owned by General Motors.
I was surprised to know that Goodrich, the folks responsible for the tires, is much more heavily into aerospace. In fact, they sold off the tire part to Michelin in 1988, and are now aerospace and defense company
That’s very weird, since KFC was owned by Pepsico for a long time, before being spun off (along with Taco Bell and Pizza Hut) into Tricon in '97, which eventually was re-named as Yum! Brands. (I know this story all too well; we have KFC and Taco Bell as clients.)
Marcus Theatres have always been operated by the Marcus Corporation, which has always been a separate entity.
My best guess would be that Marcus used to be the KFC franchisee in your area (they also used to operate the Marc’s Big Boy restaurants, particularly in Wisconsin).
Conglomeration was a not-uncommon strategy in the 1970s and 1980s; some corporations decided that owning a diverse portfolio of businesses was a way to smooth out the impact of business cycles. Sometimes it worked out, but a lot of times it led to the conglomerates operating companies they knew nothing about.
I worked for Quaker Oats in the late '90s. At that time, the company had just sold off some food businesses that didn’t fit in with their core of “healthy and breakfast foods”, such as Celeste frozen pizzas and Van Camp’s Pork and Beans…but in the 80s and early 90s, they’d owned companies like JoS. A. Bank (men’s clothiers) and Fisher-Price (children’s toys).
General Motors used to own DirecTV.
During its heydays, CompuServe was owned by H&R Block. I always thought that was strange.
GE is trading at $9.25 a share today, with a market cap of $90 billion. That’s a penny stock?
I think DHL is actually owned by the German Postal service.
I think…
Apart from food, Sara Lee owns several other brands, including Kiwi and Endust. They once owned Hanes Playtex.