Evolution of Brands
Amazon:
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in
Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and software products. Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It was the first computer company to break with the kind of robust visual IBM. Steve Jobs decided to sell computers under the name of this fruit, in homage to the house music of the Beatles, which was named in the same way. . In addition, Macintosh is a variety of apple
Aspirin:
The syllable “Spir” indicates the presence of salicylic acid, derived from the botanical family “Spiraea.” The acetyl brought the prefix “A” and the suffix “in” created a word that might spelled the same way in German and English.. It happened in the year 1898.
Audi
AUDI AG, commonly known as Audi is a German automobile manufacturer which produces Audi branded cars and SUVs. The Audi company which was founded in 1910 by August Horch, the original name was Audiwerke GmbH. This name was based on a latin translation of Horch’s (the German word for “hark!”) name after a naming dispute with his former company A. Horch & Cie prevented him from using his name.
Audi comes from the German translation of the name of August Horch, “Horch!” in German means “Hark!” or “listen”, which is “Audi” in Latin.
Barbie:
Barbie is a best-selling fashion doll launched in 1959. The doll is produced by Mattel, Inc.,
Ruth Handler, watching her daughter Barbara playing with paper dolls, he discovered that it would be a good idea to manufacture a plastic doll, for about thirty centimeters tall, representing a woman between 16 and 20 years, to that the girls could dress, combed and transform. Thus was born the famous Barbie name comes from the name of his daughter and the doll’s design was inspired by a German doll called Bild Lilli.
The Bluetooth specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG)
The Bluetooth technology, comes flounder, takes its name from King Harald, the second monarch of Jutland and unifying Denmark and Norway, better known as Harald Blatand Although this appellation was translated into English as Bluetooth (literally “blue tooth”), it seems that its original meaning rather responds to the idea of “great man of dark skin.”
Bridgestone, the Japanese tyre manufacturer, began as a family business in 1931. Its founders were the family “Ishibashi.” And the name of Brigestone comes from the English translation of the name ishibashi as “stone bridge” with an intentional resemblance to Firestone, a company acquired by the Japanese company.
Coca-Cola:
Coca-Cola produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia and is often referred to simply as Coke or (in European and American countries) as Cola or Pop
In 1886, John Styth for Atlanta Perberton US developed a non-alcoholic drink from coca leaf extract and cola nut, which began to enjoy great popularity for its pleasant taste .
Dunkin Donuts:
Dunkin’ Donuts is an international donut and coffee retailer founded in 1950 in
Every morning, nearly all
Ebay:
The most famous auction site gets its name from “
Google:
This search engine, designed by two students at Stanford in 1995, the name of the term in which the mathematician Eduard Kasner defined the number 10 to 100. One followed a hundred zeros, a Googol. However, due to an error when registering that name at the end it was registered as “Google”.
Harley Davidson:
Harley-Davidson Motor Company is an American manufacturer of motorcycles based in
The Harley was born in 1903 in a workshop in
Intel:
Intel born from the hand of Robert and Gordon Moore Noyle in 1968. The original name would be “Moore-Noyce,” but in English it sounds very similar to “more noise” (more noise) is preferred by the abbreviation of “Integrated Electronics”.
James Bond:
When Ian Fleming created this character, he chose the name of an American ornithologist which the author admired.
Kelme:
This brand belonged to an
Kleenex:
The term Kleenex comes from the English word “clean” means clean, to which he added the “K” Kimberly-Clark and the ending “former” to point out that it was part of the family Kotex.
Kodak:
This was created under the name George Eastman, founder of the company. “I frame the same name. The letter “K” had always been my favorite. It seems 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 roots are in
Levi’s:
Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO) is a privately held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi’s brand of denim jeans. it was founded in 1853 by Levi Strauss .
Linux:
The operating system is named for its first developer, Linus Torvalds, with a change in the “s” with “x” in honor of Unix operating system .
Lucky Strike:
Its creator, Dr. RA Patterson, his snuff associated with the
Mafalda:
Mafalda is a comic strip written and drawn by the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado (pen name Quino). The strip features a girl named Mafalda.he character Mafalda — whose name was inspired by David Viñas’s novel Dar la cara — and a few others
Mercedes:
The name of these cars is from the name an eleven-year-old Viennese girl, the daughter of a lady of Spanish origin, married to the consul general and businessman, Emil Jellinek, an avid motorsport emerging from the early twentieth century. Consul said he asked for a major redesign to Daimler, inventor and car, with the proposition of giving these cars the name of his daughter Mercedes.r. This name was accepted so well that it was decided to call upon all of Daimler cars.
Motorola:
In 1928, Paul Galvin founded the Galvin Manufacturing Company to manufacture car radios, adjusting the radio at the time, known as the Victrola. . Galvin called his Motorola radio, a fusion of the words “engine” and “victrola”. It was in the 60s of the twentieth century when they begin to manufacture mobile phones.
Napster:
Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning .The service was named Napster after Fanning’s hair style based nickname . Its technology allowed people to easily copy and distribute MP3 format song files among each other, bypassing the established market for such songs and thus leading to the music industry’s accusations of massive copyright violations. Although the original service was shut down by court order, it paved the way for decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing programs, which have been much harder to control.
Netscape:
Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company, best known for its web browser.
Among the general skepticism and curiosity, in March 1994 Jim Clark launched Netscape (the “Net-Landscape,” “Landscape of the Internet”).
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the
Nivea:
Nivea is a large global skin- and body-care brand, owned by the German company Beiersdorf.
In 1911, the scientist Beiersdorf managed to develop the first emulsion of oil in water. Then, he added eau de toilette, a scent of lily of the valley and a brand name infallible. .The company’s owner, Oskar Troplowitz, named this creamy white with the name of Nivea, the Latin term nivis (snow).
Nokia:
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation, headquartered in Keilaniemi,
It was Born in 1865 on the banks of the river Nokia in the southwestern part of
Old Spice is an American brand of male grooming products.
The Old Spice brand was launched in 1934 founded by William Lighfoot Shultz, a lover of ships from the colonial era which also had a collection of bottles like that are used in the old merchant ships to carry spices, and whose form has taken the packaging of the brand. The ship that appears on their packaging is The Grand Turk, built in 1781 for
Panda:
Panda Security SL, formerly Panda Software, is a computer security company founded in 1990 by Panda’s former CEO, Mikel Urizarbarrena, in the city of
The name of this company dedicated to developing anti virus systems come from the group of friends started. A “bunch” of friends.
Pepsi-Cola:
Pepsi-Cola is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo
Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist from New Bern (North Carolina), developed the first Pepsi-Cola in 1893 by mixing with cola nut pepsin, sugar, vanilla and various essential oils and spices. When the “beverage of Brad” became popular in the surrounding counties, he changed the name on December 30, 1902 as Pepsi-Cola Company.
Origin of Name:
1. Caleb Bradham bought the name “Pep Kola” from a local competitor and changed it to Pepsi-Cola.
2. The word Pepsi comes from the Greek word “pepse” (πέψη), which is a medical term, describing the food dissolving process within one’s stomach. Dyspepsia is also a medical term describes a problem with one’s stomach to dissolve foods properly.
Pizza Hut:
Pizza Hut is the world’s largest pizza restaurant chain based in
In 1958 Dan and Frank Carney opened the first Pizza Hut in Kansas (USA). . They called Pizza Hut pizzas and they did because the store looked like a hut .
Ray-Ban is a manufacturer of sunglasses, founded in 1937 by Bausch & Lomb. The first
The Ray-Ban Aviator became a well-known style of sunglasses when General Douglas MacArthur landed on the beach in the
Red Bull is an energy drink sold by Red Bull GmbH. The Austrian ,Dietrich Mateschitz Blendax, a toothpaste company, when he visited
Sony:
Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato,
Tampax is a brand of tampon from Procter & Gamble. The American Medical Earle Cleveland Haas
Vehicles were originally sold under the name “Toyoda” , from the family name of the company’s founder, Kiichiro Toyoda(1936).But Risaburo Toyoda, preferred “Toyota”, was visually simpler and sounded better with two “t”s. The newly formed word was trademarked and the company was registered in August 1937 as the “Toyota Motor Company”.
The name of these prestigious boots, comes from: “Timberland, the land of Timber.”.Timber land is located in the surrounding woods from
Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Robert Chesebrough, a chemist born in
In April 1994, “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” was renamed “Yahoo! About that name there is still no consensus. Jerry Yang , who has the embodied the public image of the company,and David Filo, insist that they chose the name because they liked the word’s general definition, which comes from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Zippo lighter is a refillable, metal lighter manufactured by Zippo Manufacturing Company of Bradford Pennsylvania .George G. Blaisdell founded Zippo Manufacturing Company (located in Bradford, Pennsylvania) in 1932, and produced the first Zippo lighter in early 1933, being inspired by an Austrian cigarette lighter of similar design,which made him world famous. It got its name because Blaisdell liked the sound of the word “zipper” and “zippo” sounded more modern.
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