Brands Name History
| Adidas | Named for nickname of Adolf “Adi” Dassler |
| Amazon | Most voluminous river for a site with hoped for voluminous sales |
| Apple | Steve Job’s favorite fruit, simple and not cold or unapproachable like IBM |
| Canon | Japanese name of Buddhist bodhissatva for mercy Kannon |
| Coca-Cola | Made from coca leaves and kola nuts—coca-kola |
| Danone | Named for nickname of founder’s first son Daniel—Dan + One |
| eBay | Was originally Echo Bay, but that was taken, so Echo was shortened to e |
| A misspelling for math term “googol” | |
| M&Ms | For partners Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey president) |
| Pepsi | Named for digestive enzyme pepsin |
| Reebok | Named for African antelope rhebok |
| Samsung | Korean for three stars |
| Toyota | Founder name Toyoda turned out to be hard to spell |
| Volkswagen | German for peoples’ car |
