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Company
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Lonsdale - Boxing equipment manufacturer named after the Lonsdale
belt, a boxing trophy donated by the English Lord Lonsdale. |
Citroën - André-Gustave Citroën (1878-1935)
was a French entrepreneur of Dutch descent. He was the fifth
and last child of the Dutch Jewish diamond merchant Levie Citroen
and Mazra Kleinmann (of Warsaw, Poland). The Citroen family
moved to Paris from Amsterdam in 1873 where the name changed
to Citroën. |
Haribo - From the name of the founder and the German home town
of the company: HAns RIegel, BOnn |
McDonald's - from the name of the brothers Dick McDonald and
Mac McDonald, who founded the first McDonald's restaurant in
1940. |
Lycos - from Lycosidae, the family of wolf spiders. |
MFI - Originally called Mullard Furniture Industries and was
named after the founder's wife, whose maiden name was Mullard. |
Amstrad - Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc was founded by Sir
Alan Michael Sugar in the UK. The name is a contraction of
Alan Michael Sugar TRADing.
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Nike - named for the Greek goddess of victory. |
Nintendo - Nintendo is composed of 3 Japanese Kanji characters,
Nin-ten-do the first two of which can be translated to "Heaven
blesses hard work"; do is a common ending for any store. |
Dell - named after its founder, Michael Dell. The company changed
its name from Dell Computer in 2003.
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