Audi: Company founder August Horch once founded a car company called "Horch". However, five years after leaving the company, Horch wanted to return to the business. Because the original company was still there, he named the new company "Audi". Audi is the Latin form of the original German meaning of the surname "Horch".
Carrefour: The predecessor of this famous supermarket was a small store located at a crossroads in Annecy, France. Carrefour means "crossroads".
Cisco: This word is not an acronym, but is taken from the last five letters of the word San Francisco. Cisco's advertising logo is the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Coca-Cola: Named after its main raw materials, coca leaves and kola. Inventor John Pemberton changed the k in kola to c in order to make the name look better.
Compaq: means "compact computer". com is the prefix of computer (computer), and paq means pack (compact).
★Danone: When Isaac Calasso produced his first batch of yogurt in Barcelona, ??he gave the product the nickname Danone after his son.
Haagen-Dazs: Contrary to popular belief, this ice cream brand does not originate from Europe, but is an authentic American product. Haagen and Dazs are two words made up to make Americans think they are European imports.
Kodak: This name was invented by company founder George Eastman. K is Eastman's favorite letter. He feels that the letter K feels powerful and straightforward. Some people think that Kodak comes from the "click" sound made when pressing the camera shutter button, but that is a misunderstanding.
Microsoft: The company's founder Bill Gates took the prefix of the two words Micro computer software (microcomputer software) and initially named it Micro-Soft. Later, the "-" in the middle was removed. .
Motorola: The company was formerly a radio factory with popular products, and its record player brand was Victrola. When founder Paul Calvin started producing car radios, the company's name was changed to Motorola. Motor means "car" and rola is the suffix of the original name Victrola.
Oracle: Company founders Larry Ellison and Bob Oates did a consulting project for the CIA, which was codenamed "Oracle" .
Pepsi-Cola (Pepsi-Cola): named after the formula contains cola nut ingredients and claims to be able to treat dyspepsia.
Shell: Royal Dutch Shell was founded in 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport Trading Company. Samuel Company was engaged in the importing business of Japanese shells, which later gave the Shell Oil Company its name.
Xerox: Chester Carlson, the inventor of the xerographic machine, named the company this way to emphasize that its copying method was dry copying, which was different from the wet copying that was widely used at the time. In Greek, the root word Xer means "dry."
Adidas (Adidas): formed by merging the prefixes of founder Adi Dassler’s name.
LEGO: A combination of the Danish word "leggodt", which means "play well", and this is exactly the goal pursued by this world-famous plastic toy manufacturer.
Mercedes-Benz (Mercedes-Benz): "Mercedes" is the name of the youngest daughter of Emil Jelinek, the main dealer of Daimler Automobile Company. In 1926, Daimler and Mercedes-Benz merged to form Daimler-Benz. The following year, the Mercedes and Benz brands were unified into Mercedes-Benz.
Nike: The company name comes from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
Nokia: The predecessor of this world telecommunications giant was a pulp mill in Finland, which is located in Nokia City.
Walmart: It is a combination of Wal in founder Sam Walton’s surname and mart in English for “market”.