Acme Corporation

ACME (English acme, summit ',' peak '; ακμή of Greek acme, climax ') is often used in the English-speaking world as a fictional name for a company.

The term was with the animated cartoons of Warner Bros. and Disney, in particular, the Road Runner series, known and stands for a fictitious company. In order not to come into conflict with the U.S. trademark law, the signatories have invented a company which manufactures all items that are needed in the movies. From everyday items such as clothing and toothpaste to fancy stuff like pocket rockets and laser cannons, it 's nothing that ACME does not manufacture. There are hints in various Warner Bros. animated series that Acme is operated by the Road Runner (eg in Road Runner: To Beep or not to Beep, Freeze Frame, Tiny Toon in a lawsuit). Only later interpreted the word ACME as a backronym for A Company did Manufactures / Makes Everything ( " A company that manufactures everything " ) or American Company did Manufactures / Makes Everything.

There were and are, however, several real companies that operate under the name ACME.

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Chuck Jones, director of numerous Warner Brothers cartoons, has declared the beginning of the 1980s as part of a lecture at the University of Dayton that ACME was the name of a real company. The advertising of this company was to find the mid- 1930s on the back of a phone book in Burbank, California; in common parlance this phone number directory is often referred to as the " ACME " ever since.

Acme was in the early 1900s - years the name of a private label mail order company Sears Roebuck and Company, better known by the short form Sears. The catalog of Sears was already an institution, as the company sent not only consumer products of daily needs, but also large appliances for home and kitchen as well as all the houses in kits to the most remote regions of the United States.

In Germany, in the 1920s, a plate ACME brand that brought out U.S. recordings for the German market.

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