McDonald's is a real estate company, fast food is their side business.
Starbucks is a bank, more than a coffee shop.
Amazon's most revenue comes from it's cloud services at AWS and not from retail service.
Nike is a marketing company, they outsource almost all of their manufacturing.
IKEA is a real estate company more than furniture.
Visa themselves doesn't issues credit cards, they make money by processing transactions.
Sony's main cash cow is their financial services operated in Japan, not their electronic products.
Intel makes more money from data centers then their whole global consumer chips business.
Nestle most revenue comes from it's pets & nutrition products not other common products etc.
Johnson & Johnson earn more by selling medical devices than selling consumer products.
Dell makes more revenue from enterprise server solutions than its consumer electronics market.
GE makes more revenue through aviation & healthcare tech than its traditional appliances.
HP makes money by selling repeat ink & cartridges by making loss on printer, to trap user in ecosystem.
Colgate-Palmolive earns more from it's pet nutrition products than oral health products.
Costco makes most of its profits from membership fees rather than by selling products.
Marriott earns more from management & franchise fee rather than owning & operating hotels directly.
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