Companies with odd product profiles. (Lighthearted) Zippo lighters also make cheap reading glasses!

[Redheadedstepchild]

Spotted in a French newsagents today. Zippo brand reading glasses.

I would have loved to have been in the pitch meeting for that one. "The cigarette lighters aren't doing so well these days seeing as everyone is vaping...let's make cheap reading glasses."

Now, if they'd only carried the design idea through properly with a built in fag lighter on one branch of the glasses...

What companies do you know with odd diversifications?

Samsung make mobile phones, washing machines etc, quartz worktops and air source heat pumps.

I can kind of see the heat pumps as an extension of what they already do but quartz worktops?

Yamaha- pianos and motorcycles, I think now two separate companies but started off from the same one

Is it mars that do chocolate and whiskers cat food?
I could google but am lazy

Kodak batteries in Poundland.

EasyJet do washing powder now

I had to google that because I didn’t quite believe you but yeah...Easy Cleaning.

https://www.easy-cleaning.co.uk/our-products/easy-washing-up-liquid-original-500ml/

In a blindfolded taste test between the two, I wouldn't fancy my odds, to be fair.

I had some Zippo sunglasses that I bought on holiday as they were the only ones available in the only shop in the village. I LOVED those sunglasses and cried when I lost them. I'd love another pair if anyone can tell me where to get them from???

I can send you some from my only shop in the village.

They are local sunglasses for local people though...

I’ve got some Peugeot baking dishes. They’re stoneware and really lovely.

Lamborghini make tractors. Ducati motorcycles came out of company that makes electronic and electrical components.

Yep, we had one in our last house.

Many years ago now, I had a science textbook at school, published by Mills and Boon.