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I seem to recall reading in The Economist years and years ago that this was largely a result of countless mergers and acquisitions and a strong cultural distast

by lb1lf 3y ago

I seem to recall reading in The Economist years and years ago that this was largely a result of countless mergers and acquisitions and a strong cultural distaste for whittling away units not part of what was defined as the business' core du jour. (Good on them, I say) Anyway, the result was that Japan's biggest supplier of tomato soup was... Sony.

Dalewyn 3y ago
Mitsubishi produces everything from pencils to space rockets and everything in-between and not in-between.
- freetime2 3y ago
  According to Wikipedia [1], the Mitsubishi Pencil Company is not related to the Mitsubishi rocket company (aka Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) and Mitsubishi Group. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-ball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-ball
  - lb1lf 3y ago
    Wow, I've been using Mitsubishi Hi-Unis as my go-to pencils for decades now, and always assumed they were part of The(tm) Mitsubishi group. IMHO they outrank anything as all-round pencils - I mostly use mine in H grade for writing, occasionally bringing out a set of various grades for some drawing, but still - Hi-Unis are unbreakable, consistent, takes kindly to erasing mistakes and... Wow, beating Tombows, Blackwings, Lumographs, the works. IMHO, at least. YMMV. Terms&Conditions apply.
  - Dalewyn 3y ago
    TIL! I'm pretty sure even most Japanese think they're part of the same group.