Company Names

[Toronto]

http://deliberately-different.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-they-named-companies.html

[antonioledesma]

very interesting link
But they missed S&C :mrgreen:

[Fleischmann]

Sharp- Japanese consumer electronics company named from its first product, an ever-sharp pencil

Some of those facts are very interesting, I would have though that in most cases the name was also the surname of the founder, it seems things are much more complicated.

[Mattk]

Some are quite interesting. Others are just somewhat boring.

[ARMAN]

LG- combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. (In Mexicopublicists explained the name change to the public as an abbreviation to LÃnea Goldstar Spanish for Goldstar Line)

never knew it came from Goldstar wich was not very good quality company i think. LG thou is in my mind a quality brand, never used anything from them thou :)

Mozilla comes from creators of Netscape? :shock:

Great list, iteresting read, thanx Toronto :P

[Mattk]

Goldstar made floppy disks and televisions, and that's all I know. They merged in the early 90s, or so my father recalls.

[taygunho]

HSBC- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
I thought hsbc was an English bank.
LG- combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. (In Mexicopublicists explained the name change to the public as an abbreviation to LÃnea Goldstar Spanish for Goldstar Line) I thought L was Leadtek
I want to add something dosen't exist in list.Puma's founder Rudolf Dasler is brother of Adidas'es founder Adolf Dasler.

[Mattk]

HSBC was probably founded by the English. I'm not sure.


Puma's founder Rudolf Dasler is brother of Adidas'es founder Adolf Dasler.

hehe...sibling rivalry to the max.