COMPANIES NAMES

NAME OF THE COMPANIES BASED ON SUR NAMES

AUDI-The company name is based on the surname of the founder, August Horch. "Horch", meaning "listen" in German, becomes "Audi" when translated into Latin.
              Audi is a member of the "German Big 3" luxury automakers, along with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, which are the three best-selling luxury automakers in the world

AKAI – named for its founder, Masukichi Akai
BAJAJ-
BOEING – named after founder William E. Boeing.
BOSCH – named after founder Robert Bosch.

BUELL-Named after its founder Erik Buell. (automobile)
BUICK-Named after its founder David Dunbar Buick (automobile)

CADILLAC-Cadillac was founded from the Henry Ford Company in 1902 by Henry Leland,^[4] a master mechanic and entrepreneur, who named the company after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who foundedDetroit, Michigan.



CRAY – supercomputer company named after its founder, Seymour Cray.
DELL – named after its founder, Michael Dell.
The Walt Disney Company, named for its co-founder Walt Disney.
DOW – named after its founder, Herbert Henry Dow.
FIRESTONE– named after its founder, Harvey Firestone.
GARTNER– named after its founder, Gideon Gartner,
GERDAU-Johannes Heinrich Kaspar Gerdau.
GOODYEAR-Named after Charles Goodyear.(Even though he had no connection with the company, it was named after Charles Goodyear. Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber in 1839. The first Goodyear tires became popular because they were easily detachable and required little maintenance).
LAFARGE-Named after its founder Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge.
PIRELLI-Named after its Giovanni Battista Pirelli.

BUGATTI-Named after its founder Ettore Bugatti.(automobile)
CHEVROLET named after company co-founder Louis Chevrolet, (automobile)

CHRYSLER named after the company founder, Walter P. Chrysler. (automobile)

CITROEN-Named after its founder Andre-Gustave Citroen. (automobile)

DUCATI-Named after its founders Antonio Cavalieri Ducati, Adriano Cavalieri Ducati, Bruno Cavalieri Ducati.(automobile)

FERRARI-from the name of its founder, Enzo Ferrari. (automobile)

FORD Motor Company – named after its founder, Henry Ford (automobile)

HARLEY-DAVIDSON-Named after its founders William S Harley, Arthur Davidson, Walter Davidson and William A Davidson. (automobile)

HONDA- Named after its founder Soichiro Honda. (automobile)

LAMBORGHINI-Named after its founder Ferruccio Lamborghini. (automobile)

PEUGEOT-Named after its Armand Peugeot. (automobile)
PORSCHE-Named after its founder Ferdinand Porsche. (automobile)
RENAULT-Named after its founder Louis Renault. (automobile)
SUZUKI-Named after its founder Michio Suzuki. (automobile)
YAMAHA-Named after its founder Torakusu Yamaha. (automobile)


NAME OF THE FOUNDERS
BYD-Build your dreams.
JBL-James Bullough Lansing
TVS-Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundaram Iyengar
DHL-Dalsey Hillblom Lynn  came from the founder's name of this company. They are : Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn.
ADIDAS – Adolf “Adi” Dassler
ARP-named after founder Alan Robert Pearlman.
HP – Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard

COMPANIES AND THEIR ABBREVIATED NAMES.
AT&T – the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
BMW  Bavarian Motor Works
CEAT is an abbreviation for Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino. 
KTM Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen.
IBM-International business machine
ING Group-International Netherlands Group
DLF-Delhi Land and Finance
HTC - High Tech Computer
HCL – Hindustan Computers Ltd,
ISO - International Organization for Standardization.
ITC - Indian Tobacco Company.
JCB - Joseph Cyril Bamford
KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken.
KPMG - Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler
MRF-Madras Rubber Factory.
PVR - Priya Village Roadshow.
WIPRO - Western India PROducts
WNS-World network service.

IBPS - Institute of Banking Personnel Selection
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
CID - Criminal Investigation Department
CRISIL - Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited
SWIFT - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication


 Bridgestone -comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning "stone bridge" in Japanese.

The name "Cisco" was derived from the city name, San Francisco, which is why the company's engineers insisted on using the lower case "cisco" in its early years. The logo is intended to depict the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.^[7]


HYUNDAI-MEANS MODERNITY IN KOREAN.

KIA-According to Kia Motors, the name "Kia" derives from the Sino-Korean words ki ("to come out") and a (which stands for Asia), it is roughly translated as "arise or come
up out of Asia" or "rising out of Asia".

HITACHI-MEANING OF HITACHI IS SUN RISE.The company began as an in-house venture of Fusanosuke Kuhara's mining company in Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture. Odaira moved
headquarters to Tokyo in 1918. Long before that, he coined the company’s toponymic name by superimposing two kanji characters: hi meaning “sun” and tachi meaning
“rise”.

MAZDA-The company website states that its name is derived from Ahura Mazda, a god of wisdom, intelligence and harmony of the earliest civilizations in West Asia
(Persia). Ahura Mazda (Persian : اهورا مزدا-Sanskrit: असुर मेधा (Asura-Medhā)), is the name of God to Zoroastrians. The company website also notes that the name also derives from
the name of the company's founder, Jujiro Matsuda

TOSHIBA-The merger in 1939 of Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki created a new company called Tokyo Shibaura Denki. It was soon nicknamed Toshiba, but it wasn't until 1984 that the company was officially renamed Toshiba Corporation.

VOLVO-Volvo is Latin for "I roll or I turn".

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