IPSO is a brand?? Ipso you sayso.
Alliance is just a chain of holding companies that went around snarfing defunct brand names, not unlike White Consolidated. Passing through Raytheon (a leach DOD contractor), Bain Capital (a leach in general), eventually landing at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (you'd have to ask an Ontario teacher about them).
Our hotel had 2 Unimacs and a Wascomat. Nothing special about the Unimacs except they were big and there was often something wrong with them. The Wascomat was big too but there was never anything wrong with it and it didn't need to be bolted down. So I'm pretty "fmeh" when it comes to Alliance.