American Dryer was famous for just that, their line of commercial/industrial dryers. Around 2012 they decided to get into the crowded washer/extractor field. Obvious theory was laundries of all sorts would prefer to source their washers and dryers from same maker. This as opposed to say having washer/extractors by Wascomat and dryers by whoever.
If you're head isn't spinning yet, wait there's more!
Maytag (before Whirlpool got their mitts on them) purchased distribution rights to European commercial laundry appliance maker Primus. Lucky them Alliance Laundry Systems picked up Primus next in 2014. Only to drop them in North America at least in 2018.