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02-25-2006, 01:32 AM
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Company Names
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02-25-2006, 02:08 AM
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very interesting link
But they missed S&C 
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02-25-2006, 02:24 AM
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Sharp- Japanese consumer electronics company named from its first product, an ever-sharp pencil
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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.
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02-25-2006, 09:01 AM
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Some are quite interesting. Others are just somewhat boring.
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02-25-2006, 09:03 AM
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LG- combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. (In Mexicopublicists explained the name change to the public as an abbreviation to LĂnea Goldstar Spanish for Goldstar Line)
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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 
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02-25-2006, 09:13 AM
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Goldstar made floppy disks and televisions, and that's all I know. They merged in the early 90s, or so my father recalls.
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02-25-2006, 09:26 AM
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HSBC- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
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I thought hsbc was an English bank.
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LG- combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. (In Mexicopublicists explained the name change to the public as an abbreviation to LĂnea Goldstar Spanish for Goldstar Line)
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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.
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02-27-2006, 07:05 PM
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HSBC was probably founded by the English. I'm not sure.
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Puma's founder Rudolf Dasler is brother of Adidas'es founder Adolf Dasler.
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hehe...sibling rivalry to the max.
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