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This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some of the origins are disputed. 0–9 19 Entertainment – talent company founded by Simon Fuller and "named after Paul Hardcastle's single 19, the first No. 1 Fuller had a hand in", according to TV Guide After selling 19 Entertainment to CKX, Inc, Fuller founded XIX Entertainment, which is 19 in Roman numerals. 20th Century Fox – film studio; formed in 1935 through the merger of William Fox's Fox Film, and Twentieth Century Pictures. 21st Century Fox – media company formed by spinning off News Corporation's TV and movie properties in 2013. It owned 20th Century Fox, the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Star TV and others until it was bought by Disney in 2019. 23andMe – using the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up each person's genome, the company helps individuals make sense of their own genome. 343 Industries – Halo game developer founded by Microsoft after the departing of Bungie, named after the character, 343 Guilty Spark. 37signals – web development company; named for the 37 radiotelescope signals identified by astronomer Paul Horowitz as potential messages from extraterrestrial intelligence. In 2014, the company renamed itself Basecamp, after its main product. 3Com – network technology producer; the three coms are computer, communication, and compatibility. 3dfx Interactive – 3d and fx, standing for "three-dimensional effects". 3M – from the company's original name, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. 7-Eleven – convenience stores; renamed from "Tote'm" in 1946 to reflect their newly extended hours, 7:00 am until 11:00 pm. A A&M Records – named after founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss A&P – from Atlantic & Pacific in The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a U.S.-based supermarket chain A&W Root Beer – named after founders Roy Allen and Frank Wright A. Le Coq – named after the founder Albert von Le Coq. Abba Seafood – from Aktiebolaget Bröderna Ameln, meaning "Ameln brothers limited company". ABC – American Broadcasting Company Abloy – derived from Aktiebolag Låsfabriken/Lukkotehdas Osakeyhtiö, which means "lock factory limited company" in both Swedish and Finnish ABN AMRO – in the 1960s, the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (Dutch Trading Society; 1824) and De Twentsche Bank merged to form the Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN; General Bank of the Netherlands); in 1966, the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bank merged to form the Amro Bank; in 1991, ABN and Amro Bank merged to form ABN AMRO. Accenture – from "Accent on the future". The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Before 1 January 2001, the company was called Andersen Consulting. Acer – born as Multitech International in 1976, the company changed its name to Acer in 1987; the Latin word for "sharp, acute, able and facile" Acorn Computers – The name "Acorn" was chosen because the company's first microcomputer system Acorn System 75 was to be expandable and growth-oriented. It also had the attraction of appearing before "Apple Computer" in a telephone directory. Adecco – named from the merger of Swiss staffing company Adia with French staffing company Ecco Adidas – from the name of the founder Adolf "Adi" Dassler. Adolf and his brother Rudolf Dassler split the original company, Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik (Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory), with Rudolf founding Puma. Adobe Systems – from the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock Adyen – from the Sranan Tongo word adyen meaning 'start again', this is a reference to this being the second project of the founders, after Bibit Aflac – initialism for the company's previous name of American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (which remains the legal name of Aflac's underwriting subsidiary). Ahlstrom – named after founder Antti Ahlström Ahold – holding company of Albert Heijn and other supermarkets. For its 100th anniversary in 1987, Ahold was granted the title of Koninklijke ("Royal" in Dutch) by the Monarchy of the Netherlands, changing its name to Koninklijke Ahold (Royal Ahold). Akai – named for its founder, Masukichi Akai Akamai – from the Hawaiian word akamai meaning smart or clever; the company defines it as "intelligent, clever and cool" AKG Acoustics – from the company's original name, Akustische und Kino-Geräte (Acoustic and Cinema Equipment) AKZO – named from the 1969 merger of Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (AKU) and Koninklijke Zout Organon (KZO) Alcatel-Lucent – Alcatel was named from Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécommunications et d'Électronique. It took over Lucent Technologies (below) in 2006. Alcoa – Aluminum Company of America Aldi – portmanteau of Albrecht (name of the founders) and discount Alepa – from Alennushalli Pajunen (Pajunen's Discount Hall), named after the founder. The Pajunen family sold the chain to HOK-Elanto in 1987. Alfa Romeo – company was originally known as ALFA, an acronym for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili ("Anonymous Lombard Automobile Factory"). When Nicola Romeo bought ALFA in 1915, his surname was appended. Alibaba Group – from the character Ali Baba from the Middle Eastern folk-tale collection One Thousand and One Nights because of its universal appeal. Alltel – from original company name Allied Telephone Company Alps Electric/Alpine Electronics – Katsutaro Kataoka founded Kataoka Electronics in a suburb of Tokyo in 1947. A subsidiary was established in the province of Tohoku, also known as the Tohoku Alps, as Tohoku Alps Co. Ltd. When Kataoka was seeking investment during the 1960s, he found that foreigners had difficulty pronouncing "Kataoka," and renamed his firm Alps Electric. Alpine Electronics was originally named Alps-Motorola as a joint venture in the Japanese car audio market and the Alpine name was adopted after Motorola divested its stake in 1978. Alstom – set up as Alsthom in 1928 by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques and Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston, it changed the spelling to Alstom in 1997. AltaVista – Spanish for "high view" Altec Lansing – audio equipment company formed when Altec Service Company, whose name was an abbreviation of "all technical" (and which had promised to never make or sell audio equipment), acquired Lansing Manufacturing Company, named after James Bullough Lansing (also later the namesake of JBL (below), which he founded to compete with Altec Lansing as soon as his contract expired) Alza – from the name of the founder Alex Zaffaroni Amazon.com – founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company "Amazon" (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar) bookstore. (Alternative: Amazon was chosen to cash in on the popularity of Yahoo, which listed entries alphabetically.) AmBev – American Beverage .... Discover the Steve Ettlinger popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Steve Ettlinger books.