The Interesting Stories Behind Brand Names

Adidas- Adidas is often thought of as the acronym for “All Day I Dream About Sports”. The brand name is actually derived from the founder of the company, Adolf Dassler. “Adi” stands for Adolf and “Das” stands for Dassler.

Adobe- This software giant got its name from a river! Unbelievable, but true! Adobe’s co- founder, John Warnock’s house is beside the Adobe Creek River in California.

Google- The mighty Google is well-known to everyone, but do you know how the name came into being? The company wanted to patent the word “Googol” as their brand name. “Googol” is a number number that means 1 followed by 100 zeros. “Google” was actually a spelling mistake.

Apple- Apple’s logo design has nothing to do with the type of products the company manufactures. Why is the half-eaten apple then used as their logo? Newton discovered gravity when he saw an apple falling from a tree. The Apple logo stands for motivation for new innovation.

Nike- Nike was derived from the “Greek goddess of victory”. That’s why they use the ‘swoosh’ in their logo’s design. The tick also personifies victory.

Toyota- This world famous Japanese car manufacturer got its name from its founder, Sakichi Toyoda, whose surname was initially used as the brand name, but was later, changed to “Toyota”. The word Toyota uses eight letters of the Japanese alphabets. Eight is the lucky number in Japan. The company wanted to give their brand name both numerological luck and a ringing sound for universal appeal.

Coca Cola- We love to drink Coca Cola, but how many of us really know what the name stands for? The secret lies in the recipe for this popular beverage, which uses coca leaves and kola nuts. Coca-Cola maker, John S. Pemberton, changed the spelling of “kola” into “cola” to create the famous brand name “Coca Cola”.

Hotmail- Hotmail is based on HTML and the company wanted to give it a name that will sound like HTML and have the word “mail” at the end. They finally selected the name “HoTMaiL”, but later changed the word casing and made it “Hotmail”.

Mercedes- Emil Jellineks, the man behind this company, patented the car’s engine after his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek.

               


    BlackBerry – They wanted to steer clear of the term email because that word increased clients’ blood pressure. So they chose BlackBerry because the device’s buttons looked like seeds, the word is pleasing to the ear, and the device was black




                


    Facebook – A facebook is a directory with photos and basic information. Changed from TheFacebook.com to Facebook.com after they acquired the domain in 2005 for $200,000


                   
      HP – Named after their founders, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. They tossed a coin to determine if the company would be named Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Packard won the coin toss but chose to leave it as Hewlett-Packard

                      
   IBM – Coined in 1924, IBM is an acronym for International Business Machines.




                       
            IKEA – An acronym from the founder’s name and the Swedish village in which he grew up: Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd Agunnaryd.


                    
  Skype – Originally Sky-Peer-to Peer, then Skyper, and finally Skype

                         
   Volkswagen – Literally means people’s car. Adolf Hitler developed the idea for a “cars for the masses” program that later became Volkswagen

maheshwar barik- Now what to say about this. even the inventor(god) of this machine is confuse...after making it ..and thought "oh god what i made by mistake". This product  Not yet launched.










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