Story behind famous company names
There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances. Mercedes This was actually the financier, Emil Jellinek's daughter’s name. The Spanish name Mercedes means "mercy". Adobe This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apple Computers The first slogan of this company was "Bite into an Apple", while its more famous slogan is "Think Different". Probably thinking differently, the founder, Steve Jobs, named this company "Apple Computers" while he was driving along with Steve Wozniak between Palo Alto and Los Altos. Jobs and his friends used to work on a community farm cultivating apples while he was working in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the...