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A 20th Century Fox - William Fox A&M Records - Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss A&W Restaurants - after Roy Allen and Frank Wright Abbott Laboratories - Dr. Wallace Calvin Abbott (1888) Abercrombie & Fitch Co. - David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch Alza - name of the founder Alex Zaffaroni. Amstrad - Alan Sugar - A M S TRADing Audi - founder August Horch (audi is Latin for horch which means listen in English) Avery Dennison Corporation - R. Stanton Avery B B&Q - from the initials of its founders, Block and Quayle Baedeker's - Karl Baedeker Baldwin Locomotive Works - founded by Matthias W. Baldwin BEA Systems - from the first initial of each of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang. Beck's - co-founder Heinrich Beck (1873) Bell Labs - Alexander Graham Bell Also: BellSouth Benz & Cie. (later Daimler-Benz) - Carl Benz Black & Decker - founded by S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker Brooks Locomotive Works - founded by Horatio G. Brooks C Cadbury - John Cadbury opened his shop in 1824 Casio - Tadao Kashio Corel - from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory. D Daimler-Benz (later DaimlerChrysler) - Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz DaimlerChrysler - Gottlieb Daimler and Walter Chrysler Dassault Group - Marcel Dassault De Lorean Motor Company - John De Lorean Debian - project founder Ian Murdock named it after himself and his girlfriend, Debra. The Dow Chemical Company - Herbert Dow Dow Jones & Company - Charles Dow and Edward Jones DuPont - Eleuthre Irne du Pont. E Edison Records - Thomas Edison Eli Lilly and Company - Eli Lilly Ericsson - Lars Magnus Ericsson F Ferrari - Enzo Ferrari, founder Ford Motor Company - Henry Ford G Gartner - Gideon Gartner Ghirardelli Chocolate Company - Domingo Ghirardelli Global Gillette - King C. Gillette Goldwyn Picture Corporation (later merged into MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)) - a combination of the names of Samuel Goldfish (he later adopted the name Samuel Goldwyn), Edgar and Archibald Selwyn Gottlieb - David Gottlieb H H. K. Porter, Inc - railroad locomotive manufacturer founded by Henry Kirke Porter Hanna-Barbera Productions - William Hanna and Joseph Barbera Harley-Davidson - William Harley and Arthur Davidson Harvey Norman - Gerald Harvey and Ian Norman The Hershey Company - Milton Hershey Hewlett-Packard - William Hewlett and David Packard Horlicks - James Horlick and William Horlick who founded the company in Chicago in 1873 I IKEA - from an acronym using the initials of the founder Ingvar Kamprad, who was from a family farm called Elmtaryd, which was near the village of Agunnaryd. J K Kawasaki Heavy Industries - Shozo Kawasaki Kroger Co. - Bernard Henry Kroger King Kullen Grocery Co. - founder Michael J. Cullen, he replaced the "C" with a "K" for marketing purposes. L Lamborghini - Ferruccio Lamborghini Lancia - Vicenzo Lancia. Levi Strauss & Co. - Levi Strauss Louis B. Mayer Pictures (later merged into MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)) - Louis B. Mayer (original name Eliezer Meir) M Mars, Incorporated - Frank C. Mars Mattel - from founders Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler Mazda - Jujiro Matsuda, also possibly inspired by Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda. McDonald's Corporation - Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald MGM or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - after the last names of Samuel Goldfish and Edgar and Archibald Selwyn and Louis B. Mayer. Miele - Carl Miele. Mitel - from Mike and Terry's Lawnmowers after the founders Michael Cowpland and Terry Matthews N Nestl - Henri Nestl who created the milk-based food in 1867 P Path - Charles and mile Path, who founded the Socit Path Frres in 1896 Peugeot - Armand Peugeot who founded the company in 1882 Philips - Gerard Philips, who founded the company in 1891 Procter & Gamble - William Procter and James Gamble R Robert Bosch GmbH - Robert Bosch, who founded the company in 1886 Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works - founded by Thomas Rogers Rolls-Royce - Charles Rolls and Henry Royce RSA Security - from the first letters of the last names of founders Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman. S Sainsbury's - John James Sainsbury Formerly Sears, Roebuck - Sears and Alvah Roebuck Siemens AG - Werner von Siemens Singer Corporation - Issac Merritt Singer, inventor, improvements in the design of the sewing machine Stewart-Warner - John K. Stewart and Arthur P. Warner T Tesco - amalgamation of TES (from T. E. Stockwell) and CO (from Jack Cohen) Thomas Cook Travel, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Various named after Elihu Thomson Thomson-CSF (now Thales Group) Thomson-Houston Electric Company (now General Electric) THX - from the name of the technology's inventor and the audio technology of a 'crossover' amplifier: Tomlinson Holman Trump Air Shuttle, airline, named after owner Donald Trump TVR - from the first name of the company founder TreVoR Wilkinson W Waitrose - named after founders: Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose The Walt Disney Company - Walt Disney Warner Bros - the brothers Jack Warner, Sam Warner, Harold Warner and Albert Warner Wendy's - founder Dave Thomas' daughter Melinda "Wendy" Thomas Y |
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