2021-05-20 06:43:01
Did you know about them? Famous brands' names and their meaning Coca-Cola: The two main ingredients were Coca leaves and Cola berries.
Pepsi- Pay every pence spending on it
Google: Derived from 'googol' which means 1 followed by 100 zeros
Adidas: Named after owner Adolf Dassler whose nickname was Adi. Adi Dassler became Adidas.
Intel: Short for integrated electronics
Lego: Derived from Danish words 'Leg Godt', which means to 'play well'.
Amazon: CEO Jeff Bezos 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.
Skype: Originally the idea was 'Sky peer to peer', which later became Skyper and finally Skype.
Sony: Derived from the Latin word, 'Sonus' (meaning sound) and an American slang word, 'Sonny' (meaning bright youngster).
Volkswagen: Means 'People's car' in German.
Reebok: Derived from the Afrikaans spelling of an African Antelope, 'Rhebok'.
Starbucks: Named after a character in Moby Dick, Starbuck
Durex: Durable, Reliable and Excellence.
Fanta: The head of the German Coca-Cola team asked them to use their 'Fantasie'
(imagination) to come up with the name. That did not take long though
Nivea: Derived from the Latin word 'Niveus', which means snow white.
HP (Hewlett Packard): William Hewlett and David Packard flipped a coin to decide whose name would come first.
Microsoft: A combination of the words Microcomputer and Software
Cisco: Not actually an acronym. They just removed San Fran from San Francisco.
Nikon: Short for Nippon Kogaku, which means 'Japanese Optical'
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