Carrefour: The predecessor of this famous supermarket is a small shop located at the crossroads of Annecy, France. Carrefour means "crossroads".
Cisco: This word is not an acronym, but 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 the main raw materials coca leaves and cola. Inventor john pemberton changed the K in Cora to C to make the name look better.
Compaq: It means "compact computer". Com is the prefix of computer, and paq means pack.
★ Danone: Isaac carazo nicknamed his son Danone when he produced the first batch of yogurt in Barcelona.
Haagen-Dazs: Contrary to popular understanding, this ice cream brand is not from Europe, but an authentic American product. Haagen-Dazs was invented to make Americans feel that it was imported from Europe.
Kodak: The name was invented by george eastman, the founder of the company. K is Hysmans's favorite letter. He thinks that the letter K gives people a strong and straightforward feeling. Some people think that Kodak originated from the "click" sound when pressing the camera shutter, but that is a misunderstanding.
Microsoft: Bill Gates, the founder of the company, took the prefix of the word microcomputer software and named it Microsoft. Later, he dropped the "-"in the middle.
Motorola: The predecessor of the company is a popular radio factory, and the brand of phonograph is Victrola. When the founder Paul Calvin began to produce car radios, the company name was changed to Motorola, which means "car", and the roller was the suffix of the original name Victoria.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions: The founders of the company, Larry Ellison and Bob Oates, did a consulting project for the CIA. The code name of this project is "Oracle Bone Inscriptions".
Pepsi-Cola: It is named after the formula contains cola nuts and claims that it can treat indigestion.
Shell: Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company was founded in 1907, which was formed by the merger of Royal Dutch Oil Company and Shell Transportation Trading Company. Samuel Company was engaged in the import business of Japanese Shell, and later Shell Oil Company was named after it.
Xerox: Chester Carlson, the inventor of the electrostatic copier, named the company in this way to emphasize that its copying method was dry copying, which was different from the wet copying widely used at that time. In Greek, the root Xer means "dry".
Adidas: The name prefix of founder Adi Dassler was merged.
Lego: The Danish word "leggodt" means "have fun", which is the goal pursued by this world-famous plastic toy manufacturer.
Mercedes-Benz: "Mercedes" is the name of the youngest daughter of emil jellinek, the main distributor of Daimler Automobile Company. 1926, Daimler and Mercedes-Benz merged to form Daimler-Benz. The following year, Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-Benz were unified into Mercedes-Benz.
Nike: The name of the company comes from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
Nokia: The predecessor of this world telecom giant is the Finnish pulp mill located in Nokia.
Wal-mart: It is a combination of wal in the surname of founder sam walton and mart in English.