Amazon: The name of the company should start with A, since Internet search engines picked up the search results alphabetically. Amazon was the name they liked best: "This is the widest river in the world, but not only that, but it is also ten times wider than its immediate competitor. " On February 9, 1995, the name Amazon.com was recorded in a Delaware corporation, and she became the first brand to be registered with the tagline ". Com.
Apple Computer was the first company to break with IBM's robust visual gender. Steve Jobs decided to sell computers with the name of this fruit, in homage to the Beatles' record label, named in the same way. In addition, Macintosh apple variety is a Californian.
Aspirin: The syllable "spir" indicates the presence of acid salicylic acid, derived from the botanical family "Spiraea". Acetyl provided the prefix "A" and the suffix "in" created a word that could be spelled the same way in German and English. Occurred in 1898.
Audi: Audi comes from the German translation of the name of August Horch, car designer, the Latin, meaning "listen." With this name is called to an excellent wine from the Penedes vineyards for which crosses the famous Via Augusta.
Barbie, Ruth Handler, watching her daughter Barbara play with dolls cutouts paper, discovered it was a good idea to manufacture a plastic doll, a foot tall, depicts a woman between 16 and 20 years, which the girls to dress, comb and transform. Thus was born the famous Barbie in 1959 and its name comes from the name of his daughter.
Bluetooth: Bluetooth technology, of Nordic origin, takes its name from King Harald, the second monarch of Jutland and unifying Denmark and Norway, known as Harald Blatand. Although this name was translated into English as Bluetooth (literally "blue tooth"), it seems that its original meaning is more responsive While the idea of \u200b\u200b"the great dark man."
Bridgestone: Bridgestone, the Japanese tire maker, began as a family business in 1931. Its founders were the family "Ishibashi." And the Bridgestone name comes from the English translation of this name "stone bridge" with an intentional like Firestone, which was acquired by the Japanese company.
Budweiser: By 1870, the American Carl Conrad discovered an exceptional beer aroma and flavor in the German village hidden Budweis. Its production process was to induce twice fermentation, which gave him great softness to the resulting product. Returned to the U.S. the recipe and there, registered the brand of beer
Caprabo: Caprabo's story dates back to 1958, when Pere Carbó, Josep Jaume Prat and Botet allocated three million pesetas and the first syllable of each of their names to a company that has become a string of first-order distribution Catalan.
Ceac: The company started in the forties of the twentieth century, providing a correspondence course to enter
Schools Riggers, hence the meaning of its acronym 'Center Surveyors Study Correspondence. "
Cisco: Cisco's name, computer-related company, founded in 1984, comes from the hometown of its two founders: San Francisco, and its symbol is the Golden Gate Bridge.
Coca-Cola: In 1886, John Styth Perberton Atlanta USA developed a soft drink from coca leaves and kola nut extract, which achieved great popularity for its friendly taste and its virtues euphoric.
Corona, Mexico's Grupo Modelo, founded by immigrants from Leon, chose the Corona name in Spain for their beer because the Corona name was registered.
Chiruca: In the early fifties Castañer Mercedes along with their children, put on the market the first CHIRUCA boots. The name comes from the Galician Chiruca. It is an affectionate diminutive dedicated to the founder.
Chupa Chups
: Enric Bernat in 1955 recorded the sweet "with a fork" for children or choke or stain to eat and baptized with the name "Chups". The first radio campaign, with the tune "Chupa, Chupa Chups Chupa the", was commissioned to provide a final name for your new invention. Bernard had called "Chups" their candy, but the market began to call him "Chupa Chups" and in 1961 adopted its current name.
Danone: The company Danone was born in 1919 in Barcelona when his creator Isaac Carasso made the first industrial yogurt marketed in Western Europe. The name of the brand, Danone, derived from Daniel, the name of his son. Another complementary version is that Danone comes from Daniel and the English word "one". The sum of the first syllable and the word English
gave rise to "Dan-one."
Delaviuda: The history of this company was started in 1927 by Manuel Lopez, an artisan producer of marzipan and sweet Sonseca settled in Toledo. After the death of Manuel, his wife, Mary Rojas, had to take care of business. The fame of their products made them begin to be known as "The widow's" and that was what eventually gave the name.
Dunkin Donuts: Each morning, nearly all U.S. households will repeat the same ritual at breakfast time: soaking (to dunk) the bun (donuts) in coffee. Dunkin Donuts chain wanted to reflect on their marks precisely this action and incorporated in name the two key words for their establishments.
Ebay: The most famous auction site named "East Bay", one of the districts of San Francisco.
El Corte Ingles, Cesar Rodriguez, a Spaniard entrepreneur who made his fortune in Cuba, in 1935 buying tailoring El Corte Ingles in Madrid Shatterspear street.
El Pozo: In 1936, Antonio Fuertes opened a small deli in the town of Alhama (Murcia), in the town square called El Pozo.
Endemol: In 1979 John de Mol creates his own production company and for years had only one rival: Joop van den Ende, swept impresario whose production company with Holiday on ice. In 1994, together forming Endemol.
Eroski: The name of the consumer cooperative is in Euskera contraction of two words which translate as "buy and partner."
Freixenet: The word comes from Freixenet \\ "Freixenada \\", a farm-rich ash that since former member of the Ferrer family, owners of the company.
Google: This search engine, developed by two Stanford students 1995, named after the term with which the mathematician Edward Kasner defined the number 10 to 100. One followed by hundred zeros, a Googol. However, due to a failure to register the name at the end was recorded as "Google."
Gore Tex: The secret of this fabric, invented by Bob Gore in 1969, is very simple. Its operation is based on a drop of rainwater is 20,000 times larger than the pores of the Gore Tex. While the molecule of water vapor given off by the body as sweat is 700 times smaller.
Häagen-Dazs: The name of this ice cream has the partnership Exotic white and milk for a distant Nordic country. But it really is not the name of anything or anyone, but a word invented strictly for its wealth positioning.
Harley Davidson: Harley was born in 1903 in a workshop in Milwaukee, where twentysomethings William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson built their first motorcycle. But the myth was born in the fifties: Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando rode a Harley as a symbol of rebellious and free spirit of his generation.
Helios: Helios began operating as a family business that manufactured pumpkin using traditional methods. Later
extended its offer to all sorts of jams and marmalades, candied fruits and quince paste. The first settlement was called The Sun in 1936, changed its name to Helios, the Greek meaning "sun."
Hennes & Mauritz (H & M): In 1947, the Swede Erling Persson opened a clothing store for women only, called Hennes (Swedish means "for her"), which reproduced the model clothing store based on sales volumes that kept prices low, developed in the U.S.. In 1968, the company acquired Mauritz Widforss and spent name to Hennes & Mauritz.
Heno de Pravia
: This is a long history and comes during a trip. Back in 1903, Salvador Echeandía Gal Asturian land is lost and is literally hooked on scent that leaves freshly cut hay in the town of Pravia. Once back to Madrid, says with Lesmes Sainz de Vicuna, his partner in founding Gal Perfumes what had grown into an obsession: to capture in a perfume that kept the memory of the smell of hay, Pravia. No doubt
both jumped on the name of a product, then imaginary, true to the recorded image in the mind of Salvador Echeandía going to be green, like grass, and a yellow wrapper, a color image of the dry hay.
Ikea: The company was founded in 1943 in one of the poorest regions in Sweden by Ingvar Kamprad, born in the city of Elmtaryd Agunaryd, when he was 17. The Ikea name is formed from the initials of his name (IK) and by inicales of their place of origin (EA).
Intel: Intel born from the hand of Gordon Moore and Robert Noyle in 1968. The original name was to be "Moore Noyce 'but given that in English sounds a lot like" louder "(more noise) opted for the abbreviation for "Integrated Electronics".
Jacuzzi: Jacuzzi The seven Italian brothers, who sold water pumps to the farms, built in 1956, a submersible pump for hot tubs. The idea was born because of the need for a family to receive daily treatments of hydrotherapy. The result was a new way to relax.
James Bond: When Ian Fleming created this character, he chose the name of an American ornithologist which the author admired.
Kas: This name is composed of the first letter of family name Knorr, former owners of the company, plus the name of the soft drink bottling Vitoria "Ace", now defunct. The first drink Kas appeared in 1955.
Kelme: This brand belonged to an industrial shoe Alicante, called Francisco Riquelme, who has bought this brand Quiles brothers, founders of the current company. The name comes from the name.
Kleenex, Kleenex The term comes from the word "clean" means clean, to which he added the "K" Kimberly-Clark and the ending "ex" to indicate that part Kotex family.
Kodak: This created the name as George Eastman, founder of the company. "I myself I created the name. The letter "K" was always my favorite. Appears strong, incisive. It was a matter of making a large number of combinations of letters to form words that begin or end with "K". And the result was "Kodak."
Lego Lego's roots are in Denmark, where Ole Kirk Christiansen began in 1932 to build wooden items. Among the products include stepladders, ironing boards and toys. Ole observed good prospects for the latter. He concentrated on it and gave the name to his work: Lego, a combination of the Danish words "Leg godt" meaning "play well."
Levi's: Levi's were first clothes of the miners of San Francisco, 1850. It was a brown canvas overalls of the Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss had made.
Linux: The computer operating system is named for its first developer, Linus Torvald, with a change of "s" with "x" in honor of Unix, the operating system (leader in the world of big servers) from which it derives.
Lois: The English producers of this jeans tried to give it a French twist to the name of your brand. Thought that "Lois" was the translation of the male name "Luis", in that language. When reality is "Louis."
Lucky Strike: Its creator, Dr. RA Patterson, associated his snuff with the California gold prospectors. Thus arose the name "Lucky Strike" or "lucky."
Mafalda: Quino created this comic strip as promotional support for an appliance company. Mafalda's name meant to remind the brand name.
Mango: Isak Andic, owner of the fashion company, he had everything ready for launch: the Paseo de Gracia store about to open, merchandise, staff, authorizations, you just ... was the name!. Looking for a brand hook, easy to remember and also sounded practically the same in any language. A mission that seemed impossible, until the employer agreed to a trip to the Philippines, where he tried the handle first. This sweet and strong, almost unprecedented in Spain, and then struck him, was just the name I wanted. He ran to the registry and was lucky no one had thought before using it. It was in 1984.
Mary: This brand of cookies most famous is the name of the granddaughter of the founder, Eugenio Fontaneda.
Mercedes: The name of these cars corresponds to a Viennese girl of eleven, daughter of a lady of English origin, married to the merchant and consul general, Emil Jellinek, an avid motorsport emerging from the early XX. Such consul makes an important order for a new design to Daimler, inventor and builder car, with the proposition that these cars give the name of his daughter Mercedes. This name was so popular we decided to call it that for all Daimler cars.
Mercromina: The John Hopkins University in 1917 discovered the benefits of mercurochrome solution. In 1927, English Jose Antonio Serrallach get excellence in its formulation. He was born Mercromina, red antiseptic. The name comes from "Mercure and chrome."
Miko: The founder of this company, of English origin, he named his neighbor's dog.
Minute Maid: The company was founded in Florida (United States) in 1946 and his name is flirting with the meaning of the word "minute" (minute) and the sound of the word "maid" which remember the word "made" (done). Once united, the whole could be translated as: "Done in a minute." That according to its leaders referred to the ease and convenience of a juice that we should not squeeze.
Motorola: In 1928, Paul Galvin founded Galvin Manufacturing Company to manufacture car radios, adjusting the radio at the time, called Victrola. Galvin called his Motorola radio, a fusion of the words "motor" and "Victrola." It was in the 60 century when they begin to manufacture mobile phones.
Napster: Shawn Fanning is the founder of Napster. In the virtual world he was known by the nickname of Napster, as they called him at home small. With a name named the program that allows users to connect their computers together to exchange files without paying a dime.
Navidul: Manuel Ruiz and Lourdes Díaz Díaz del Río launched in the fifties a small business of slaughtering and processing meat products called Navidul, which comes from the combination of "natural, old and sweet."
Netscape: Among the general skepticism and curiosity, in March 1994 launched Netscape (the "Net" Landscape "," Landscape of the Internet ").
Nike: Nike is the goddess of Victory in Classical Greek culture. Is the case with the English company that registered the trademark in 1932 and began making his famous "Nikis". In 1972, Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman founded the company Nike
American.
Nivea: In 1911, the scientist Oskar Troplowitz able to develop the first oil in water emulsion. Then he added cologne, a scent of lily of the valley and a brand name infallible. Named his white cream Nivea name, the Latin nivis (snow).
Nokia: Born in 1865 on the banks of the river Nokia in the southwestern part of Finland near the city of Tampere, a pulp company. Its founder was Fredrik Idestam. In 1963, the company developed its first radio, clear forerunner of today's mobile. In 1990, it becomes a telecommunications company.
Old Spice, Old Spice brand was launched in 1934 and is the work of William Lighfoot Shultz, a lover of ships from the colonial period also had a collection of bottles like those used in the ancient merchant ships to carry spices, and whose form has taken the packaging of the brand. The boat that appears on the packaging is The Grand Turk was built in 1781 for American business.
Panda: The name of this company dedicated to the development of antivirus systems come from the group of friends who started. A "bunch" of friends.
Pepsi-Cola, Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist New Bern (North Carolina), developed the first Pepsi-Cola in 1893 mixed with pepsin cola nuts, sugar, vanilla and various essential oils and spices. When "Brad's drink" became popular in the surrounding counties, changed the name and December 30, 1902 was the name Pepsi-Cola Company.
Pikolín: The name of these famous mattresses from an Italian word "Piccolino," which is a small thing, nice, charming. The Director of the company used to travel extensively to Italy and a friend suggested it. In the end, did this adaptation of the term.
Pizza Hut : In 1958 Da and Frank Carney opened the first Pizza Hut in Kansas (USA). They called it Pizza Hut because they made pizzas and the store looked like a hut (hut, in English).
Ray-Ban: The first crystal Bay-Ban was green, protected from strong light and had added that so far not found in any other lens, eliminating the ultraviolet and infrared. These three features gave rise to its name was born: Ray-Ban, a sort of play on words in English came to mean something like "no-rays."
Red Bull: The Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz is associated in the late eighties of last century with a Thai businessman who sold a drink at the pump to prevent drivers fell asleep at the wheel. In the design of your brand appeared a bull and a sun. And here comes the Red Bull. Subsequently adapted to European taste the flavor creating a drink that expresses power, energy, strength and courage. Another version is that the drink contains a component called the "taurine", hence the name Bull (bull in English).
Scalextric: In 1947, the British entrepreneur Fred Francis produced a tin carriages ran on a machine wind-up clock, called Scalex. Advanced prototypes later, with the addition of power. Scalextric was born.
Schweppes: The Swiss Jacob Schweppe (without the final "s") began in 1783 selling mineral water in Geneva.
Sony: The company's president, Akio Morita, the name created in 1946 based on the Latin word sonus (sound) and the song "Sonny Boy."
Sun: Three engineers founded in 1982, Sun (Stanford University Network) to make servers facilitate communication between large business computers and data storage and transfer.
Talgo: The name of the flagship train of the English railways have the initials of "Goicoechea Oriol light articulated train." The architect of this technological miracle was the engineer Alejandro Goicoechea. A risky idea that he believed the businessman José Luis de Oriol.
Tampax: The American Medical Earle Haas Cleveland Colorado (USA) patented this invention on 19 November 1931. When it was decided by a trademark, registered the name of Tampax, for "tampon-vaginal pack. "
Toyota, Kiichiro Toyoda Toyota Motor created in 1937, changing the "d" from its name by a "t" for ease of pronunciation.
Timberland: The name of these prestigious boots, comes from: "Timberland, Timber's land." Timber is a timber that is found in forests near Newmarket in New Hampshire (USA), home of the company. Its symbol is the image of an oak.
Tiscali: The Internet company has taken its name from an Italian town that served as a fortress against invasions bárbaras, en Cagliari (Cerdeña). Fundada en 1997.
Trivial Pursuit: En 1981, dos periodistas canadienses discutían acerca de quién sabía más sobre cuestiones triviales. La amistosa discusión abordaba temas de ciencia, geografía y espectáculo. Lo que surgió de esta “pequeña reunión” fue la creación del juego de los ochenta: el Trivial Pursuit.
Tupperware: Earl Silas Tupper (1908-1983), inventor y comerciante, convirtió al polietileno en un material irrompible y casi indeformable. Resistía temperaturas elevadas y se podía moldear para fabricar cacharros de cualquier is not broken or cracked. Later in 1947, incorporated a liquid tight seal and air. Thanks to an experienced selling these products began to sell to housewives in their own environment. We are in the difficult postwar economy.
Twingo Renault mobilized its creative naming a new car. The car was small, happy and young. They made a list of different types of dance and then combined the beginning and the end of two words. Twingo was born: the contraction of twist and tango.
Value: In the eighties the nineteenth century, Valeriano López embarked his whole family in the chocolate business. Among all artisan chocolate manufactured and sold, house by house, neighbors of Villajoyosa (Alicante). It was then when clients, friends and suppliers of Valeriano Lopez began to call this chocolate Valor. Part by the proximity to the founder's name. Party on product quality.
Vaseline: Robert Chesebrough, a chemist born in Brooklyn, was the founder in 1870 of the gelatin to cure all injuries. This invention gave the name of Vaseline, derived from the German word Wasser (water) and the Greek "elaion" (olive oil).
Vespa: In Italian the word means "wasp." And it was named so because this bike is reminiscent of this animal.
Vick's Vaporub: This medical product has its origin in the United States by the year 1880. "Vick" is the name of Dr. Joshua Vick. "Vapo" medicinal vapors inhaled open nasal passages and bronchial tubes of the patient. "Rub": This product is rubbed on the patient's body. ("To rub" means "rubbing" in English)
Virgin, Richard Branson in 1970 created a company to sell records by mail discount. When shuffled possible names for the brand, a girl from the office said: "What Virgin?. We are virgins in the business. " Thus was born Virgin Mail Order Records.
Wheaties: Jane Bausman, the wife of an executive producer, won the contest sponsored by it when he proposed the name of "Wheaties" because "there is nothing nicer than a nickname." (Wheat means wheat English)
Yahoo!: On this name is still no consensus. Yang, who has embodied the company's public image, and Filo insist they selected the name because they considered themselves as Yahoos, gross or English louts.
Zara: In 1975, Amancio Ortega created the first Zara store in La Coruña. His goal is to make garments at the cutting edge to the public: in short, democratizing fashion at that time available only a few. Interestingly Zara was not the name he had thought to his empire, but Zorba. But in the Registry of Patents and Trademarks that name was already registered. Ahead of the official and after several minutes playing with syllables, the name that eventually emerged was Zara.
Zippo: Zippo name has the world's most famous cigarette lighter and the flame is windproof put its creator George Blaisdell in 1932. It is a tribute to an invention of the time: the zipper, which in English is "zipper."
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