To clarify and for awareness...
Just because "same company makes both" or one company is "owned by" the other does not necessarily, although it could, mean the products themselves are the same. In my former work life, I worked exclusively in the manufacturing sector providing custom-engineered systems to help companies manufacture their products. Most product manufacturing facilities produce multiple products. It was also fairly common to have multiple "brands" (or perceived manufacturer's) of products produced in a single facility. The practice is commonly referred to as "private labeling".
As an example, I did one project for a lawnmower manufacturer and they produced 7 brands of lawnmowers (you don't think Sears or Home Depot actually design and make their own lawnmowers do you?
) in a single facility. Although these 7 different brands of lawnmowers ultimately all went through my transportation and paint finishing system, they were delivered to 2 different assembly lines. Each "brand" was actually different from the others. Although all 7 were made in the same plant, ran through the same systems and were assembled on the same 2 assembly lines, there were differences in metal thickness of the body housings, varying amounts of stiffeners installed, differences in the amount of protective coating finishes applied, differing quality control requirements, different engines, different transmissions, different height adjustment mechanisms, etc. Oh yeah, and they got painted different colors, had different stickers on them and got put in different boxes
. I saw this multiple brands, or "manufacturer's", in a common facility or under common ownership quite a bit. The "economies of scale", meaning the more of something someone produces, the more economically they typically can produce the average unit, is a key driver in the manufacturing industry.
Thus, I encourage people to not assume that just because two products come from the same manufacturer or the manufacturer of one product is owned by another that the products are identical. They may be or they may not be.
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