How Was "Domino's Pizza" Named?

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The origins of Domino's Pizza began in 1960 when Tom Monaghan and his brother James bought a local pizzeria in Ypsilanti, Michigan, named Dominick's Pizza. The deal was secured by a $75 down payment, and the brothers borrowed $500 to pay for the store. Eight months later, James quit the partnership and traded his half of the business to Tom for a used Volkswagen Beetle. With Tom Monaghan as sole owner of the company, Dominick's Pizza became Domino's Pizza.

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posted by Staff @ 8:53 PM  

How Was "Cold Stone Creamery" Named?

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Cold Stone Creamery is an ice-cream parlor chain whose corporate headquarters is in Scottsdale, Arizona. Co-founded in 1988 by Donald and Susan Sutherland, who sought ice cream that was neither hard-packed nor soft-serve (publicity materials describe it as 'smooth and creamy super-premium ice cream'), Cold Stone Creamery opened its first store that year in Tempe, Arizona. Cold Stone describes its stores as the "Ultimate Ice Cream Experience".

The business earns its name from the frozen granite stone used to mix candy or other toppings into the ice cream.

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posted by Staff @ 8:38 PM  

How Were "Bic Pens" Named?

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Société Bic is a company based in Clichy, France, founded in 1945, best known for making inexpensive disposable products including cigarette lighters, magnets, ballpoint pens, and shaving razors. It competes against Faber-Castell AG, Global Gillette, Newell Rubbermaid and Stabilo. The Bic pen, more correctly titled the Bic Cristal, is possibly the company's best known product.

BIC was founded in France by Marcel Bich with Edouard Buffard in 1945. The two bought a factory and set up a business making parts for mechanical pencils and fountain pens. In December 1950, Marcel Bich introduced his own ballpoint pen, and named it the BIC. The 'h' from Bich was dropped in order to avoid a potentially inappropriate English pronunciation of the name. Although the pens weren't entirely new (Bich obtained patent rights from Hungarian inventor, László Bíró), the process of manufacturing was. An inexpensive, and at the same time reliable, ballpoint pen was introduced to the world. In early September 2005, BIC announced that it has sold its 100 billionth disposable ballpoint pen, making it the world's best-selling pen.

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posted by Staff @ 9:37 AM  

How Was "Play-Doh" Named?

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Play-Doh is a commercial modeling compound similar in texture to bread dough that has been sold as a children's toy around the world for a half century. Its exact makeup is a secret, but it is primarily a mixture of wheat flour, water, deodorized kerosene or another petroleum distillate (which provides the smooth texture), salt, a drying agent such as borax (which deters mold), an alum-based hardening agent, and colourings and perfume.

It is non-toxic, non-staining, and soluble in soapy water. When kept in a sealed container, Play-Doh remains pliable, but when exposed to air it hardens in about a day, but because it tends to crack during hardening, it is not good for projects one wants to save. Many baby boomers have fond memories of its salty taste and distinctive smell (due to the small amount of petroleum distillate it contains).

Play-Doh was invented by Noah McVicker and Joseph McVicker in 1956 and awarded U.S. Patent 3,167,440 in 1965. One of many common products invented by accident, it was meant as a wallpaper cleaner. It was marketed by toy manufacturer Rainbow Crafts, and first sold at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington, D.C.

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posted by Staff @ 9:20 AM  

How Was "Burton Snowboards" Named?

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Burton Snowboards, founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977, is a snowboard manufacturer that has grown to become one of the leaders in its market. With a product line that encompasses all the essential elements of snowboarding (hardgoods, outerwear, accessories), Jake Burton has created a definition of what it is to be a snowboarder. Besides selling goods under its own brand name, Burton also own several sub-brands which tend to focus on a specific line of products or aspect of the snowboard market.

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posted by Staff @ 9:12 AM  

How Was "Sunoco Oil" Named?

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Sunoco is an American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formerly known as Sun Company Inc.

The integrated oil company now known as Sunoco began as The Peoples Natural Gas Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1886, its partners—Joseph Newton Pew (see The Pew Charitable Trusts) and Edward O. Emerson—decided to expand their gas business with a stake in the new oil discoveries in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Four years later, the growing enterprise became the Sun Oil Company of Ohio.

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posted by Staff @ 9:02 AM  

How Was "Subway" Named?

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Subway is the name of a multinational restaurant franchise that mainly sells sandwiches and salads. It was founded in 1965 by Fred De Luca and Peter Buck. The corporate name of Subway is Doctor's Associates, Inc. The company has 26,252 franchised sandwich restaurants in 85 countries as of August 8, 2006 and is the fastest growing franchise in the world. This rapidly growing chain added over 2,000 locations in 2005.

In 1965, Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck opened their first location in Bridgeport, Connecticut as a stand at the University of Bridgeport and named it "Pete's Super Submarines". Soon thereafter the name was changed to "Pete's Subway" and then to "Subway". The chain used the New York City Subway as its decorative motif (old New York City subway maps and skyline views of Manhattan dot their interior wallpaper of most stores from before the late 1990s, when newer stores and remodeled older stores took on a more stylish food environment), and has a sandwich named the BMT after the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit subway line, although in advertising this has been described as "Bigger, Meatier, Tastier."

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posted by Staff @ 4:22 PM  

How Was "BJ's Wholesale Club" Named?

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BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. is a membership-only warehouse club chain operating in the East Coast of the United States, as well as in the state of Ohio. The company was started by Zayre, a discount department store chain, in 1984, on the Medford/Malden border. This was and still is the company's flagship store.

As of July 6, 2006, BJ's operates 165 BJ's and 2 ProFoods Restaurant supply clubs. The letters B and J are commonly misinterpreted to stand for Berkley and Jensen which is also a brand name sold in their stores. The company was named after the founder's daughter, Betsy Jane.[citation needed] BJ's competitors include Sam's Club and Costco Wholesale clubs.

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posted by Staff @ 8:38 AM  

How Was "7-Eleven" Named?

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7-Eleven is a chain of convenience stores started in 1927 as Tote'm (so called because customers "toted" away their purchases). In 1946, Tote'm became 7-Eleven to reflect the stores' new, extended hours — 7am until 11pm, seven days a week. (The store hours are now different around the world. For example, the 7-Eleven stores in the USA, Hong Kong, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia operate 24 hours a day.)

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posted by Staff @ 8:24 AM  

How Was "Subaru" Named?

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Subaru (In katakana: スバル), a Japanese car company, is the automobile division of Fuji Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

"Subaru" is the Japanese word for "unite" and for the star cluster Pleiades that is depicted in the company logo. The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters) has seven stars visible to the naked eye. The Subaru logo's six stars represent the five companies that came together after World War II to form one large company. While an automotive minnow compared to many of its competitors, Subaru has been a highly profitable company for many years. It is noted for the production of conventional-bodied cars with full-time AWD (in fact, in many markets its entire product range has this feature) and its use of the horizontally-opposed engine.

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posted by Staff @ 8:13 AM  

How Were "Pop Rocks" Named?

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Pop Rocks is a carbonated candy with ingredients including sugar, lactose (milk sugar), corn syrup, and flavoring. The idea of the product was patented by General Foods research chemist William A. Mitchell in 1956. The Pop Rocks candy was first offered to the public in 1975. Around 1983, General Foods stopped selling the candy; some would believe this was because of an urban legend. A few years after, in 1985 Kraft Foods bought the rights to the candy product and re-marketed it as Action Candy through a company called Carbonated Candy.

The candy is made by mixing its ingredients and heating them until they melt, then exposing the mixture to pressurized carbon dioxide gas and allowing it to cool, trapping the pressurized gas inside.

When placed in the mouth, coming into contact with saliva, the candy breaks and melts, releasing the carbon dioxide from the tiny 600 psi bubbles, resulting in a popping and sizzling sound and leaving a slight tingling sensation. The bubbles in the candy pieces can be viewed when aided by a magnifying glass.

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posted by Staff @ 9:51 PM  

How Was "Kool-Aid" Named?

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Kool-Aid is an artificially flavored soft drink concentrate made by Kraft Foods. Kool-Aid is sold as a powder to be mixed with water and a sweetener (sugar or an artificial sweetener). Some versions include the sweetener with the flavor concentrate, only requiring the addition of water.

Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack. To reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder. This powder was named Kool-Ade (and a few years later, Kool-Aid due to a change in government regulations regarding the need for fruit juice in products using the term "Ade"). Perkins moved his production to Chicago in 1931, and Kool-Aid was sold to General Foods in 1953.

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posted by Staff @ 9:34 PM  

How Was "CVS Pharmacy" Named?

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CVS Corporation used to be known as Melville Corporation; CVS changed its name from Melville in 1996.

The name once stood for Consumer Value Stores; though Tom Ryan, CVS's CEO has said he now considers it to stand for "Customer, Value, and Service".

The "pharmacy" part of the CVS store name comes from the chain's days as a regional Northeastern U.S. chain. CVS operated many convenience store-type stores without pharmacies, and the "/pharmacy" would be used to indicate the stores that had pharmacies. CVS now no longer builds stores without pharmacies, and many of the "CVS" stores (stores without pharmacies) have been phased out, though a few remain in New England, New York, and shopping malls.

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posted by Staff @ 7:13 PM  

How Was "Prudential" Named?

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Prudential Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, annuities, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and in over 30 other countries. Started in Newark, New Jersey in 1875, Prudential Financial, as it is known today, was originally called the "Friendly Assurance Company" and was founded by John F. Dryden, who later became a U.S. Senator. It sold one product, industrial life insurance.

A history of The Prudential Insurance Company of America up to about 1975 is the topic of the book Three Cents A Week, referring to the premium paid by early policyholders.

Prudential's logo, The Rock of Gibraltar, is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world. Slogans "Own a Piece of the Rock" and "Strength of Gibraltar" are also still quite widely associated with Prudential.

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posted by Staff @ 2:39 PM  

How Were "Vlasic Pickles" Named?

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Frank Vlasic, the creator of Vlasic Pickles, moved to America in 1912 to build a better life for his family. He was a cheese maker. After saving every dime from his $2 a day car foundry job, Frank established a creamery business in Detroit. He eventually turned it over to his son, Joe.

Joe expanded the family milk and cheese business into selling Polish pickles spiced with garlic and dill. During World War II, however, his supply of pickles dried up, so Joe started testing a new idea: selling Polish pickles in glass jars. Joe couldn't keep up with demand and the Vlasic Pickle brand was born.

Joe's son, Bob, joined the company after World War II ended and became general manager of the entire Vlasic operation, which still included the creamery. Its first plant was built in Imlay City, Michigan. Together, over the next 20 years, Joe and Bob grew Vlasic into America's number one pickle.

It's said they also played an important role in shaping American eating habits with their glass-packed pickles. In 1933, per capita pickle consumption was 2.09 pounds. By 1974, consumption grew to 8 pounds. Joe and Bob became so successful at pickles that they finally dropped the milk and cheese entirely.

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posted by Staff @ 12:19 PM  

How Was "H&R Block" Named?

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H&R Block is a tax preparation and personal finance management company founded by brothers Henry W. and Richard Bloch in Kansas City in 1955 (they changed the name of the company to prevent mispronunciation). The Blochs founded the company in response to the Internal Revenue Service no longer completing tax returns for free. H&R Block has over 12,000 locations worldwide and serves over 20 million clients annually. The company services about 21 million clients in 21 countries. Their main office occupies an entire block at Main and 44th Streets in Kansas City.

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posted by Staff @ 12:23 PM  

How Was "Hoover" Named?

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The Hoover Company is an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. For most of the early-and-mid-1900s, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "hoover" brand name became synonymous for vacuum cleaners and vacuuming.

The first Hoover vacuum was invented by a Canton, Ohio department store janitor named James Murray Spangler, who devised a crude vacuum cleaner using a soap box, electric motor, broom handle, and pillow case in 1907. Spangler suffered from asthma attacks, and he suspected the carpet sweeper he was using at work was the cause of his ailment.

Spangler then gave one of the vacuums to a friend, Susan Hoover, who used it at her home. Impressed with the machine, she told her husband about it. Her husband was W.H. "Boss" Hoover, a leather-goods manufacturer in North Canton, then called New Berlin. Hoover bought the patent from Spangler in 1908 and retained Spangler as a partner in the new vacuum cleaner business.

Hoover then placed an ad in the Saturday Evening Post offering customers 10 days free use of his vacuum cleaner to anyone who requested it. Using a network of local retailers to facilitate the offer, Hoover thus developed a national network of retailers for the vacuums. Over time, his company's sales expanded globally, and, in British English, the word "Hoover" became a verb meaning "to vacuum a floor".

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posted by Staff @ 10:04 AM  

How Was "Noxzema" Named?

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Noxzema is a skin cleanser marketed by Procter and Gamble. Procter and Gamble acquired the brand in 1989, as part of the acquisition of Noxell Corporation, the Maryland-based company headed at that time by the grandson of the brand's original inventor.

Since 1914, it has been sold in a small blue jar. Noxzema contains camphor, menthol, and eucalyptus, among other ingredients. Originally developed as a sunburn remedy, it is popular among women as a facial cleanser and make-up remover. It can also be used for cleaning chapped, sunburned, or otherwise irritated skin. Since the introduction of Noxzema, the brand name has appeared on shaving cream, razors, and skin-cleansing cloths. Noxzema was developed in 1914 by Dr. George Avery Bunting, a Baltimore pharmacist. Bunting introduced "Dr. Bunting's Sunburn Remedy" as the first real alternative to the greasy, tallow-based medicating creams common during the period. For the first three years, Bunting did all the mixing, heating, and pouring of the product himself.

The inspiration for the name Noxzema supposedly came from a satisfied customer who exclaimed, "You knocked my eczema."

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posted by Staff @ 10:01 AM  

How Was "V8" Named?

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The original V8 Vegetable Juice is made mainly from tomatoes and the juices from seven vegetables, specifically: beets, celery, carrots, lettuce, parsley, watercress, and spinach. Tomato juice dominates the formula. The brand is owned by the Campbell Soup Company.

V8 Vegetable Juice was invented by W.G. Peacock, the founder of the New England Products Company, which manufactured individual vegetable juices under the brand name Vege-min. Having had only mediocre success in selling them, in 1933 Peacock began blending the Vege-min juices into one and selling this new concoction as "Vege-min 8." A grocer in Evanston, Illinois recommended that he shorten the name to simply "V-8."

The new V-8 was a success, and in 1948 the Campbell Soup Company acquired the brand. It has been in continuous production since.

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posted by Staff @ 8:11 AM  

How Was "Cracker Jack" Named?

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Cracker Jack is a brand of snack consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts. Cracker Jack was first mass-produced and sold at the first Chicago World's Fair in 1893. The treat was a mixture of popcorn, molasses, and peanuts and the initial name was "Candied Popcorn and Peanuts". Cracker Jackbecame popular in baseball parks and stadiums.

The name "Cracker Jack" is said to have originated when Frederick William and Louis Rueckheim showed it to a salesman and he said "Cracker, Jack"; although at the same time "crackerjack" was an expression which at the time meant "awesome" or "it's a winner." In 1912, prizes were included in Cracker Jack boxes for the first time; this has become a signature feature of the product.

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posted by Staff @ 8:14 PM  

How Was "Sprint" Named?

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Sprint Nextel Corporation is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. With 51.7 million subscribers, Sprint Nextel operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States (based on total wireless customers), behind Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless. Sprint is a global Tier 1 Internet carrier, and, as such, makes up a portion of the Internet backbone. In the United States, the company also operates the largest wireless broadband network and is the third largest long distance provider.

Sprint was named from its parent company, Southern Pacific Railroad INTernal Communications. Back in those days pipelines and railroad tracks were the cheapest place to lay communications lines, as the right-of-way was already leased or owned.

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posted by Staff @ 5:02 PM  

How Was "Bally's" Named?

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Bally Technologies, Inc. (originally the Bally Manufacturing Corporation) is an American corporation. The company has existed for more than 70 years with a complex history of re-organizations, mergers, and divestitures; it had roots as an early and successful maker of pinball games and slot machines, and was later associated with both the health club and gambling industries.

The Bally Manufacturing Corporation was founded by Raymond Moloney on January 10, 1932 when Bally's original parent company, Lion Manufacturing, established the company to make pinball games. The company took its name from its first, highly successful, game, dubbed Ballyhoo. The company, based in Chicago, quickly became a leading maker of the popular games.

In the late 1930s, Moloney decided to begin making gambling equipment, and had great success developing and improving the modern mechanical slot machines that formed the backbone of the nascent gaming industry.

After a wartime foray into manufacturing munitions and airplane parts, Bally Manufacturing continued to produce innovations in both pinball and slot machines through the late 1950s, and also designed and manufactured vending machines and established a coffee vending service. Ray Moloney died in 1958 and the company foundered briefly; amid the financial failure of parent company Lions Manufacturing Bally was bought out by a group of investors in 1963. Through the 1960s Bally continued to dominate the slot machine industry, cornering over 90% of the worldwide marked for the machines by the end of the decade.

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posted by Staff @ 4:56 PM  

How Was "Panasonic" Named?

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Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Under this brand Matsushita sells both consumer electronics and electronics components. The brand Panasonic was created by Matsushita in 1961 for the US market because the National brand was already registered by others. As its original use was for audio equipment, the Panasonic brand was created from the elements "pan-" for "all" and "sonic" for "sound".

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posted by Staff @ 4:38 PM  

How Were "Pringles" Named?

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Pringles is a brand of crisps snack produced by Procter & Gamble. It was introduced in 1967 under the name "Pringle's Newfangled Potato crisps", which was changed to its current name the next year. According to the patent, it was invented by Alexander Liepa of Montgomery, Ohio, United States, (a suburb of Cincinnati) and comprises "A potato crisp product and process wherein a dough is prepared from dehydrated cooked potatoes and water and subsequently fried."

Pringles is especially known for its packaging (invented by Fred Baur), which consists of an upright tubular can with a foil interior, and a resealable plastic lid; it also has a famous logo, a stylized representation of a man with a large moustache and parted bangs. The crisps are made to a uniform size and saddle shape, so they stack very efficiently within the container, unlike other crisps, which are packaged loosely in a bag.

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posted by Staff @ 4:28 PM  

How Was "K-Y Jelly" Named?

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K-Y Jelly is a water-based, water-soluble personal lubricant produced by Johnson & Johnson, containing carboxymethyl cellulose, sodium alginate and EDTA. The initials "K-Y" are not known to represent any words, but are retained for their brand-identity.

Created in 1917 and then named Jelly Personal Lubricant, the jelly's popularity began with medical use, where it was often chosen by doctors because of its natural base. In contrast with petroleum-based lubricants, K-Y is generally biologically inert, and contains no colour or perfume additives. The lubricant has proved extremely popular as it does not stain and is easily cleaned up.
K-Y Jelly is now more widely used as a sexual lubricant. It does not react with latex condoms or silicone-based sex toys.

UPDATE: This article was mentioned at the History News Network. Thanks!


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posted by Staff @ 4:24 PM  

How Was "Nintendo" Named?

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Nintendo Company, Limited is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small niche businesses, such as a love hotel and a taxi company. Over the years, it became a video game company, growing into one of the most powerful in the industry. Aside from video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington. Nintendo also purchased a sizable portion of Gyration Inc, a company specializing in gyros and motion sensors, in 2001. As of 2006, Nintendo's main competitors on the gaming front are Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo is composed of three Japanese Kanji characters, Nin-ten-do. The first two can be translated to "Heaven blesses hard work"; do is a common ending for any store.

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posted by Staff @ 3:59 PM  

How Was "Lego" Named?

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Lego is a line of toys featuring colorful plastic bricks, gears, minifigures (also called minifigs or mini-figs), and other pieces which can be assembled to create models of almost anything imaginable. Cars, planes, trains, buildings, castles, sculptures, ships, spaceships, and even working robots are just a few of the many things that can be made with Lego bricks. High production quality and careful attention to detail ensures that Lego pieces can fit together in myriad ways, which is one of the main reasons for the toy's success. "Lego" is combination of the Danish "leg godt", which means to "play well." Lego also means "I put together" in Latin, but LEGO Group claims this is only a coincidence and the etymology of the word is entirely Danish. Years before the little plastic brick was invented, LEGO manufactured wooden toys.

See a cool rendition of New York City built out of Lego's at this website.


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posted by Staff @ 3:52 PM  

How Was "McAfee" Named?

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McAfee, Inc. is an antivirus and computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It markets McAfee VirusScan and related security products and services, including the IntruShield, Entercept, and Foundstone brands. The company was founded in 1987 as McAfee Associates, named for its founder John McAfee. Network Associates was formed in 1997 as a merger of McAfee Associates and Network General. In the year 2004, a major restructuring occurred. In the spring, the company sold the Magic Solutions business to Remedy, a subsidiary of BMC Software. In the summer of 2004, the company sold the Sniffer Technologies business to Network General. Also, the company changed its name to McAfee to reflect its focus on security-related technologies.

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posted by Staff @ 3:47 PM  

How Was "Intel" Named?

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Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore initially incorporated their company as N M Electronics. Someone suggested Moore Noyce Electronics but it sounded too close to "more noise" — not a good choice for an electronics company. Later, Integrated Electronics was proposed but it had already been taken, so they used the initial syllables (INTegrated ELectronics). To avoid potential conflicts with other companies with similar names, Intel purchased the name rights for $15,000 from a company called Intelco.

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posted by Staff @ 8:57 AM  

How Was "Dom Pérignon" Named?

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Dom Pérignon is a famous and expensive champagne produced by Moët et Chandon. It is named after Dom Pérignon, a Benedictine monk who allegedly discovered the champagne method for making sparkling wines. Documentary evidence now suggests that a fizzy or sparkling wine was first made in England at least several decades before it was produced in France.

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posted by Staff @ 9:52 PM  

How Was "Google" Named?

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Google Inc. is a U.S. public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation the 7 September 1998, that designs and manages the Internet's most widely used search engine. The company employs approximately 8,000 employees and is based in Mountain View, California. Eric Schmidt, former chief executive officer of Novell, was named Google's CEO when co-founder Larry Page stepped down.

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol," which refers to 10100 (a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros). Google has had a major impact on online culture. The verb "google" was recently added to both the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."

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posted by Staff @ 7:47 PM  

How Was "Black & Decker" Named?

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Black & Decker is a corporation based in Towson, Maryland best known for power tools and home appliances. It was founded in 1910 by S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker as a small machine shop in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1917, Black & Decker invented the familiar portable electric drill, obtaining a patent for a hand-held drill combining a pistol grip and trigger switch.

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posted by Staff @ 7:42 PM  

How Was "Kohl's" Named?

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Max Kohl built a grocery store in 1946, the first in what would become a southeastern Wisconsin chain known as Kohl's Food Stores. In 1962, he started his first department store, also called Kohl's.

In 1972 the British-American Tobacco Company bought the department stores and grocery stores. The Kohl family, led by Allen and Herb Kohl, stayed on to manage the company. The family left the management in 1979, and Herb Kohl went on to become a United States Senator and owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. This firm expanded Kohl's presence from 10 to 39 stores in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. The grocery stores were eventually sold to A&P in 1983, but the last of them were later closed in 2003.

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posted by Staff @ 1:57 PM  

How Was "Texaco" Named?

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Texaco is the name of an American oil company that was merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001. It began as the Texas Fuel Company, founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas by Joseph S. Cullinan, Walter Benona Sharp and Arnold Schlaet upon discovery of oil at Spindletop. For many years, Texaco was the only company selling gasoline in all 50 states, but this is no longer true. Its logo features a white star in a red circle (a reference to the lone star of Texas), leading to the long-running advertising jingles "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star." and "Star of the American Road."

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posted by Staff @ 12:33 PM  

How Was "Cisco" Named?

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Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American manufacturer of telecommunications equipment (routers, switches, hubs, ethernet equipment, etc.) based in California. The name "Cisco" is an abbreviation of San Francisco. According to John Morgridge, employee 34 and the company's former president, the founders hit on the name and logo while driving to Sacramento to register the company -- they saw the Golden Gate Bridge framed in the sunlight. The name cisco Systems (with the lowercase "c") continued in use within the engineering community at the company long after the official company name was changed to Cisco Systems, Inc. Users of Cisco products can still see the name ciscoSystems occasionally in bug reports and IOS messages. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage: it represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.

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posted by Staff @ 12:15 PM  

How Was "Rice-A-Roni" Named?

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Rice-A-Roni is a product of The Quaker Oats Company. It is a boxed food mix that consists of rice, vermicelli, seasonings, and sometimes other ingredients. In television commercials, it is called "The San Francisco Treat!" San Francisco, specifically the Mission District, happens to be where the original family-owned pasta company that created Rice-A-Roni had set up shop.

The DeDomenico family all enjoyed an old Armenian dish consisting of rice, vermicelli pasta and chicken broth. The rice and pasta were sauteed in butter before the liquid was added, giving the dish its distinctive taste.

In 1958, Vince DeDomenico decided to take this recipe and produce it for sale in grocery stores. He placed the rice and pasta in a box, and added a dry seasoning mix in place of the liquid chicken broth. Because this product was made up of half rice and half pasta, he decided to call it RICE-A-RONI


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posted by Staff @ 11:56 AM  

How Was "Reebok" Named?

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Reebok International Limited is an Anglo-American Fortune 500 company, subsidiary of Adidas AG, and producer of athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories. The name is the South African spelling of the word rhebok, a type of African antelope or gazelle. The company, founded in 1895, was originally called Mercury Sports, but was renamed as Reebok in 1960. The company's founders Joe and Jeff Foster found the name in a dictionary won in a race by Joe Foster as a boy. The dictionary was a South African edition, hence the spelling.

Reebok can be found on the internet here.

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posted by Staff @ 12:59 PM