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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by redandblack on Thursday March 28, 2024 @08:54PM (#39859366)
GE seems like another firm / conglomerate that has lost its way - although we have heard about Jack Welch's management disaster, I do not know if they lost engineers the way it happened at Boeing.

Last year, I bought GE Monogram kitchen appliances and was pleased that they work so well, until I found that it is a Chinese firm that has bought the use of GE's name along with their operations. Maybe that is why the appliances work well, and Chinese century is already on its way

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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by ninju on Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:07PM (#39859825)
GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been majority owned by Chinese multinational home appliances company Haier since 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances

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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by pseingatl on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:24PM (#39859552)
Think of all the money GE saved: no need for expensive employees or manufacturing costs in the appliances division. Just sit back and collect royalties on the use of the trademark.

Thanks, McKinsey!

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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by jorvi on Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:39PM (#39860029)
Honestly, Chinese manufacturing with Western quality control strapped on top is probably the best bang for buck a consumer can get.
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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by WNFB on Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:10PM (#39860258)
Like Volvo?
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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by tacocataco on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:41AM (#39861039)
How will the average person be able to easily keep track of all these corporations merging.

A free market requires the consumer to be fully informed and rational, I just don't see that being possible in this environment.

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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by defrost on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:50AM (#39861071)
It's possible, there just needs to be someone willing to put the work in and to present the data in a manner that makes it accessable, easy to parse, and profitable enough to cover at least time and costs.

The work is building a database of filing locations and feeds (eg: public document feeds of each and every stock exchange, corporate filing register, etc) and builder parses to extract new names, boards of directors, name changes, major stock holdings, etc.

It takes some doing (*) - but with LLM's and advances in open software it gets easier every day.

( * Myself and a small team did this for the global mineral sector some years (15+) ago )

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Re:What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build... by ninju on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:23PM (#39867334)
From 2016, only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world.

https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-foo...

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