In the cases of companies like GM and General Electric the financial subsidiaries have become very large businesses in their own right.
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This financing is done on a wide range of products, from telephones, to copiers, to $200,000 combine harvesters by Deere & Company and CNH Global, or even larger and more expensive construction equipment from manufacturers like Caterpillar and Komatsu.
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Capital lending, like its cousin consumer finance, was started by the automobile companies Ford Motor Company and General Motors (GM) in the late 1920s, and has spread to numerous industries around the globe.
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