The Brands and its Stories

                                            FAMOUS BRANDS NAME AND ITS BACKGROUND


1. Nike : It is the name for the Greek Goddess of Victory. The swoosh signifies her flight.

2. Coca - Cola : The two main  ingredients were Coca  leaves and Cola berries.

3. Pepsi : It is derived from the digestive enzyme " Pepsin ". Although pepsin is not an ingredient in the drink.

4. Google : It is derived from " Googul " which means 1 followed by 100 zeros. It signifies owners Larry Page and Sergey Brin's mission to provide innumerable info to all users.

5. Adidas : It is named after owner Adolf  Dassler, whose nickname was Adi. Adi Dassler became Adidas.

6. Intel : It is the short form for Integrated Electronics.

7. Canon : It is adopted from Kwanon ( Japanese name of Buddhist Bodhisattva of Mercy ). It was changed to Canon for easier acceptance worldwide.

8. Lego : It is derived from Danish words " Leg Godt ", which means to play ' play well '. Lego also means ' put to gether ' in Latin, which is claimed as pure co-incidence.

9. Nintendo : It is Tranliterated from Nintendou. Nin in Japanese means 'entrusted ' and Ten-dou means 'heaven '.

10. Amazon : Their CEO Jeff Bazos wanted a name starting with ' A '. He chose Amazon because it is the biggest river in the world, just what he wanted his company to be.

11. Skype : The original idea was ' Sky peer to peer ', which later became Skyper and finally Skype.

12. Adobe : It is named after a creek that ran behind the co-founder, John Warock's house, called Adobe Creek.

13. Nokia : It started as wood pulp mill, it expanded its business to producing rubber products in a city in Finland called Nokia.

14. Sony : It is derived from the Latin word, 'Sonus' meaning Sound and an American slang word, ' Sonny' meaning bright youngster.

15. Vodafone : Voice, data and Telefone.

16. Volkswagen : It means ' People's car ' in German. There was a time when only very expensive cars used to ply on German roads and Volkswagen was a revolution.

17. ebay : It is originally called Echo Bay. The domain echobay.com was already in use, hence it was shortened to ebay.

18. IBM  : The founder TJ Watson Sr wanted to be a step ahead of his former employers ' National Cash Register ', so he decided to call his company ' International Business Machines '.

19. Nikon : It is the short form for Nippon Kogaku, which means ' Japanese Optical '.

20. Reebok : It is derived from the Afrikaans spelling of an African Antelope, ' Rhebok'.

21. Starbucks : It is named after a character in Moby Dick, The original name suggested was 'Peqoud' was suggested, the name of the ship from the novel. When it got rejected, they settled for ' Starbuck', the chief mate of that very ship.

22. Virgin : It is because the business was new and the team members were virgins at business. This was suggested by a girl in Richard Branson's team.

23. Fanta : The head of the German Coca-Cola team asked them to use their ' Fantasie' to come up with the name.

24. Nivea : It is derived from the Latin word ' Niveus' , which means snow white.

25. HP : William Hewlett and David Packard flipped a coin to decide whose name would come first.

26. Toyota : It is named after founder Kiichiro Toyoda. The name was changed to Toyota because Toyoda literally means ' Fertile Rice Paddies '.

27. Microsoft : A combination of the words Microcomputer and Software.

28. Cisco : It not actually an acronym, the  founders just removed San Fran from San Francisco.

29. Budweiser : Beer has been brewed in Budweis, Bohemia, since 1245. Budweiser means ' of Budweis' and was developed as a ' Bohemian - style ' beer. The Founder Adolphus Busch was inspired to create the beverageafter a trip to the region.


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