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16 Short Company Names Explained
16 Short Company Names Explained
Dozens of companies use acronyms or initials in their names, but how well do you know what the abbreviated letters mean? Let take a look at the etymology behind some abbreviated company.
1. CVS
Sorry, drugstore fans, there are not three pharmacists fatcat these initials running around out there. When the pharmacy chain founded in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1963, was known as "Consumer Value Stores." Over time the name was shortened to just CVS.
2. K-Mart
Long five-and-dime mogul Sebastian S. Kresge opened his first store larger Garden City, Michigan, in 1962. The shop was named K-Mart after him. (Kresge had earned the right to a store named for him, he opened his new enterprise the young age of 94.)
3. IKEA
The Swedish furniture giant, noting charity is named Ingvar Kamprad found Siamese the initials of a first initial of the farm where Kamprad grew up, Elmtaryd, and the parish he calls home, Agunnaryd.
4. JBL
The speaker company is named after its founder, James Bullough Lansing. But if Lansing had retained its original name, the company's name Martini Speakers. Lansing was born James Martini in 1902, but when he was 25, he changed his name to James Lansing on a proposal from the woman who would become his wife. (The martini was a popular cocktail in time, and a number of Lansing brothers had also changed their name by shortening it to Martin.)
5. BVD
The tough men's underwear maker was originally founded by a group of New Yorkers named Bradley, Voorhees and Day of women to make bubbles. Eventually the trio branched out into knit union suits for men and became so popular that they were "BVDs" has become a generic term for underwear.
6. DHL
In the late 1960, Larry Hillblom was a broke student at the University of California, Berkeley Law School, so to pick up a little extra money, he would courier runs from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Hillblom packages would often fly to LA on the last flight of the night then return to the Bay Area with more packets in the morning.
After he finished to the law school, he decided the courier company was the real racket for him, so he recruited his friends Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn to help him on the slopes. Although she began making a delivery in Plymouth Duster travel, the company took off quickly, and they named it after their last initials.
7. AT & T
No surprises here. The telecom giant leap to life in 1885 as American Telephone and Telegraph, though now legally known as simply AT & T.
8. 3M
The conglomerate behind Post-It Notes gets its name from its roots as a company that stone to make grinding stones mined. Since it was located in Two Harbors, MN, was The company known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, which was later shortened to 3M.
9. H & M
The popular clothing store started in Sweden in 1947. Founder Erling Persson was just selling women's duds, so he called the store Hennes, Swedish for "her". Twenty years later, he bought a yacht dealer named Mauritz Widforss. After the acquisition, Persson branched out into menswear and began calling the store Hennes and Mauritz, which was eventually shortened to H & M.
10. A & W Root Beer
Roy Allen opened his first root beer stand in Lodi, California, in the summer of 1919, and soon began to expand to the surrounding areas. Within one year he had with Frank Wright, and the couple christened their flagship product "A & W Root Beer."
11. GEICO
The cute geckos employer is more formally known as the Government Employees Insurance Company. While GEICO has always been a private, independent company, its name reflects the original purpose: Leo Goodwin founded the company in 1936 to directly sell insurance to employees of the federal government.
12. YKK
The initials you see on darn near every zip your own stand for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha, which translates into "Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation." The company is named after Tadao Yoshida, the zipper care began in Tokyo in 1934.
13. PF Chang's
If you search for Mr. PF Chang, you will be a long search. The Asian dining chain name is actually a composition of the founding restaurateur Paul Fleming's initials and a simplification the founding chef Philip Chiang's surname.
14. BJ's Wholesale Club
The bulk retailer is named after Beverly Jean Weich, whose father, Mervyn, helped found the chain as a spin-off of the discount retailer Zayre in 1983.
15. ING Group
The banking giant's name stands for Internationale Nederlanden Group, or "International Netherlands Group", a nod to the Dutch company's origins and the HQ the company's heavy use of the color orange in the building and promotion is also a shoutout to the Netherlands. Orange is the color of the Dutch royal family all the way back to William of Orange.
16. H & R Block
Brothers Henry and Richard Bloch set up the tax business in Kansas City 1955. Their only problem was their surname. The brothers feared that people would mispronounce their last name as "spot", hardly a term you want associated with your declaration. They decided to get around this problem by spelling the company name "Block" instead, so no one would be hard hard "k" sound missing.
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