List of company name etymologies

Legal name (business) Etymology 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox#Fox Film Corporation William Fox (producer) 3M Minnesota Mining International Electrotechnical Commission Software engineering ABN AMRO Netherlands Trading Society Accenture Adecco Adidas Adobe Systems AGA AB Ahold Akamai Technologies Alcatel Mobile Phones Karl Albrecht Amazon River Advanced Micro Devices Mercedes-AMG Amoco Amstrad Alan Sugar Apache Software Foundation Apache National Center for Supercomputing Applications Aral AG Aliphatic compound Arcor (telecommunications) ARM Holdings MOS Technology 6502 Asics Gentleman Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse Aston Martin Atari Adige ATI Technologies Recursive acronym Austrian Airlines August Horch Bowers & Wilkins Bally Technologies Pinball Bayer Friedrich Bayer BayWa BBDO BenQ Billa (supermarket) Karl Wlaschek Bimota Bayerische Oberlandbahn Bridgestone Groupe Bull Canon Inc. Lauenau Novartis Basel Sandoz Cisco Systems Coca-Cola Erythroxylum coca John Pemberton Coleco Connecticut Colgate-Palmolive William Colgate England Compaq Corel Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation Daewoo Korean language Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft DDB Worldwide Dell Michael Dell Atlanta Georgia (U.S. state) Degesch Evonik Detecon REO Motor Car Company DKW Dual (brand) Nevada Lake Mead Elf Aquitaine EMC Corporation Richard Egan (businessman) Albert Einstein EMI EnBW Epcos European Space Agency Evonik Industries Tadano Faun GmbH Henry Ford Glock Ges.m.b.H. Gaston Glock Charles Goodyear Vulcanization Haier Liebherr Group hanuta Bonn Hasbro HB (cigarette) Hermann Tietz Leonhard Tietz Hewlett-Packard David Packard Honda Honeywell Hospira Mind Hyundai IBM IKEA Imhotep Vale Limited Electronics Iveco JVC K2 Sports Heilbronn Kawasaki Heavy Industries KFC George Eastman Industrial robot KTM Mattighofen Ceramic Lonsdale (clothing) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi LVMH LTU International Lycos Europe Maggi Julius Maggi Mattel Conrad Dietrich Magirus Conectiva MBNA Mimeograph Mitropa Mitsubishi Mosaic (web browser) Godzilla MOL Group Nabisco Namco NEC Nike (mythology) Nintendo Nokia, Finland Nortel Novell Obi (store) Oldsmobile Oracle Corporation Central Intelligence Agency Osmium Tungsten Compact Disc Digital Audio Harbinger Group Pepsin Petrobras PolyGram Pontiac Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche Ferdinand Porsche Puma SE Rudolf Dassler Quark Inc. QuarkXPress QVC Raytheon The Royal Bank of Scotland RCA Reebok Cartagena, Spain Henry Royce Adi Shamir Samsonite Samson Saudi Aramco Seiko SEW-Eurodrive Bruchsal Silicon Graphics Siemens Sinalco Six Apart Volvo SMA Solar Technology Smart (automobile) Sperry Corporation Burroughs Corporation Spartacus Starbucks Mount Rainier Subaru Suzuki Taco Bell Thomas Cook Tchibo Tesco Texaco THX Tomlinson Holman Backronym George Lucas THX 1138 Tim Hortons Ice hockey Buffalo Sabres Tim Horton Toblerone Toyota Sakichi Toyoda Katakana TVR Umbro United Artists Unisys Communism Record label Universum Film AG Unocal Corporation UUNET VEBA Victorinox Vileda Virgin Group Richard Branson Volkswagen Wachovia Charlotte (North Carolina) Walmart Wang Laboratories An Wang WHSmith London Williams-Sonoma Sonoma, California Woltersdorf, Brandenburg Martin Sorrell Photocopier Chester Carlson Yahoo Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift David Filo Jerry Yang (entrepreneur) Andi Gutmans Konrad Zuse
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