Yeah, but stuff like this is pretty normal, isn’t it? companies change form all the time, doesn’t mean they have to change what they do. Hewlett-Packard started out by making scientific equipment, so you might say they had already changes into something unrecognisable when they sold their science equipment branch.
Totally agree. Companies that manage to survive more than a few decades need to adapt. Usually, this means trying a variety of things to see what works.
Eventually, the company may choose to split a certain department into a separate company. When that happens, it usually gets a very distinct name. HP just decided to go with a very confusing way to name those two companies that are supposed to be completely separate.
Motorola spun off its cell phone division (despite being the company that invented the cell phone and the clamshell cell phone) and sold it to Google, who sold it to Lenovo. So Motorola phones, under the Motorola Mobility name, don’t have anything to do with the radio and electronic equipment company that is currently known as Motorola Solutions.
Volvo spun off its car division and sold it to Ford, who sold it to Geely, and kept the truck business. So Volvo trucks are made by a different company under different ownership from Volvo cars.
Yeah, but stuff like this is pretty normal, isn’t it? companies change form all the time, doesn’t mean they have to change what they do. Hewlett-Packard started out by making scientific equipment, so you might say they had already changes into something unrecognisable when they sold their science equipment branch.
Totally agree. Companies that manage to survive more than a few decades need to adapt. Usually, this means trying a variety of things to see what works.
Eventually, the company may choose to split a certain department into a separate company. When that happens, it usually gets a very distinct name. HP just decided to go with a very confusing way to name those two companies that are supposed to be completely separate.
Yeah, the most prominent examples:
Motorola spun off its cell phone division (despite being the company that invented the cell phone and the clamshell cell phone) and sold it to Google, who sold it to Lenovo. So Motorola phones, under the Motorola Mobility name, don’t have anything to do with the radio and electronic equipment company that is currently known as Motorola Solutions.
Volvo spun off its car division and sold it to Ford, who sold it to Geely, and kept the truck business. So Volvo trucks are made by a different company under different ownership from Volvo cars.