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3M ''' the M ''' innesota Mining and Manufacturing company (about "“mining industry and manufacturing company Minnesota"”) began with it, the mineral corundum for Sandpapier abzubauen.3S stands for Smart software Solutions. The Herstellerfimra of CoDeSys, a development environment for SPS after that International Electronical Commission 61131-3 standard for professional application development in the Industrieautomation.7-Eleven 7-Eleven was created 1927 as "“Tote'm"” (after "“dead"” carrying bags mentioned in supermarkets, together with"” 'm " for "“them"”, English for "“it"”). 1946 became Tote'm 7-Eleven, in order to against-reflect the new, extended purchase times - 7 o'clock in the morning to 11 o'clock in the evening, 7 days the week -.

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A & O chain, EinzelhandelA&P The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, supermarket chain in the USA, their stock majority since 1979 Kaiser's Tengelmann Asea - Brown Boveri, in former times ASEA and BBCABN AMRO into the 1900ern fused the Nederlandse Handelmaatschappij (Netherlands commercial company; 1824) and the Twent bank to the Algemene bank Nederland (general bank the Netherlands). 1966 fused the Amsterdam bank and the Rotterdam bank to the Amro bank. 1991 fused ABN and the Amro bank to the ABN AMRO.Accenture "“Accent on the Future"” (about: Emphasis of the future). indication as accent over the t of the Firmenlogos points to the future. The name developed as suggestion of a Norwegian coworker in the context of a firmfar name identification process (BrandStorming). By 1 January 2001 the company Andersen Consulting.Adecco was called developed from the fusion of Swiss personnel agency Adia with the French personnel agency Ecco.Adidas of the name of the founder Adolf Dassler (Adi Dassler). Adobe comes from the name of the river Adobe Creek, that behind the house of the founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke floss.AEG general GesellschaftAGA Aktiebolaget GasacculumatorAgfa Agfa comes of to the "“corporation for aniline production"”. Aniline is used for the synthesis by colors. Agip Azienda of generals Italiana Petroli (Italian: General Italian oil company). Ahold Ahold (1973 based) stands for Albert Heijn getting thing (getting thing is a society without own production enterprise). The getting thing was established around Albert Heijn supermarkets (1887 based). 1987 became Ahold Royal Ahold.Akamai Hawaiian for "“intelligently, intelligently and cool"” .AKZO trust 1969 of Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (AKU) and Koninklijke Zout Organon (KZO) Alcatel Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de et d'Electronique (French: development company of the atomic, telecommunications and electro-technology) .ALDI Albrecht Discount (firm founder Karl and Theo Albrecht) Alete Latin alete "“grows, prospers " Alfa Romeo Anomina Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili (Italian: Lombardi autofactory), supplements around the name of the founder Nicola Rome EO AltaVista Spanish for "“high-altitude view"”. Alza of the name of the founder Alex Zaffaroni.Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos designated the company after the river, the Amazon (the company Cadabra.com was called before). He saw the possibilities of larger sales volume, the one on-line book business opposite at the time the strongly spread book shops. (Alternative: It is said that Jeff Bezos designated its book business Amazon in such a way simply due to the popularity of Yahoo; Yahoo listed the entries sorted according to the alphabet, and so will Amazon was always listed over its competitors in the relevant categories, in those it.) AMD Advanced Micro DevicesAMOCO American oil company - today part of BPAmstrad "“Amstrad Consumer Electronics PLC"” was created by Alan Michael Sugar in Great Britain. The name is a Zusammenzug of Alan Michael Sugar Trading (trade). Apache first of all: The name became from respect for the natives of North America, which trunk of the Inde (Apachen) selected, which admit were to possess highest abilities in war guidance and inexhaustible perseverance. Secondly: More extensively (although falsely) accepted, it is that the name an English wordplay comes of: The founders began to write source code Patches for NCSAs httpd server. The result was "“A patchy"” servers (freely translated: A repaired server, a patch carpet server). Therefore the name Apache.Apple (English for apple) due to the favourite fruit of the firm joint founder Steve job and/or because of the time, which he worked in a Obstgarten. It was not already three months in the arrears with the designation of its enterprise and threatened to call its company "“Apple computer"” if its colleagues to 17:00 clock a better name would call. Of Apple Macintosh is after popular apple places in the USA benannt.ARAG a car legal protection AG.ARAL of aromatics and Aliphate. Aliphate are organic (un) branched chain or circular chemical Verbindungen.Arby's American discussion of the abbreviation of their founders - the Raffel B rothers. Their partners wanted to use the name "“Big Tex"”, were however not not successful in the negotiation with a Akroner businessman, who already used the name. With Forrests words: "“We came on Arby's, which stands for R.B., the initials of the Raffel Brothers, although the customers could probably think the fact that the initials stand for cattle roasts (roast beef). "“ARC Austrian Research center, in former times research center SeibersdorfARM designated after the microprocessor, which was developed of the small, British company Acorn as a successor 6502 from their BBC microcomputer. Originally stood POOR for Acorn Risc Machine (RISC is an abbreviation from the IT-range, which designates a design of processors). When the company received von Apple and VTI, it became too ''' A ''' dvanced ''' R ''' isc ''' M ''' achines ASICS is an abbreviation for "“Anima Sana in Corpore Sano"”, which meant from latin translated as much as "“a healthy spirit in a healthy body"”. Ask Jeeves Internet search machine, which is designated after the Gentleman Reginald Jeeves in a book series of P.G. Wodehouse. Aston Martin was created by the Aston Hill running (close Aston Clinton) from the area in that the company, and of Lionel Martin, the Axel Springer publishing house, since 2003 only "“Axel Springer"” .AT&T the "“American of telephones and telegraph corporation"” changed its names for the surname into the 1990ern officially to "“AT&T"”. Atari coming from the board play Go is "“atari"” the Japanese word for the situation, in which the stones of the opponent are in the danger, to be taken. Athesia of latin name of the Etsch (Athesis) ATS car of parts of special preparation; Does not produce light aluminum wheels and engine parts with its own formula a 1-Team into the later 1970ern and early 1980ern.AUA today "“Austrian"”, in former times Austrian airline AUDI abbreviation, but latin translation of the surname of the firm founder August Horch. The founder left its company "“Horch"” after five years, wanted however further cars to build. Since however the former company existed further, it called the new company Audi after latin translation (Horch = imperative Singular for "“hearing"”). Avanade derivative of the words, which describe collectively the future-oriented and initiative moving method, with which advances the enterprise of customer goals: avan, advance (progress), advantage (advantage), avenue (possibility) + - ade, action (action), act (act). Joint venture by Accenture and Microsoft.

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