CA – Computer Associates was founded in 1976 as Computer Associates International, Inc. by Charles Wang Cadillac – named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan. Cadillac is a small town in the South of France. Canon – Originally (1933) Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory [...]
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27 Sep
Company name origins – starting with “B”
Bang & Olufsen — from the names of its founders, Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, who met at a School of Engineering in Denmark. Bally — originally Lion Manufacturing, the company changed its name to Bally after the success of its first popular pinball machine, Ballyhoo. BASF — from Badische Anilin und Soda Fabriken. Anilin [...]
27 Sep
Company name origins – starting with “A”
Accenture — Accent on the Future. Greater-than ‘accent’ over the logo’s t points forward towards the future. The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Prior to January 1, 2001 the company was called Andersen Consulting. Adidas — from the name of the [...]
