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GE general ElectricsGeha of George initials if one it expresses: G.H. = GehaGEMA society for musical performance and mechanical designated after its founder gas clay/tone Glock.GLS general Logistics SystemsGM general MotorsGNU GNU's emergency UNIX, an open SOURCE implementation of UnixGoogle the name began as jokeful Prahlerei, as much the search machine information could master. Originally it was called Googol, a word for the number of 1 followed by 100 zeros. After the founders, the two Stanford graduates Sergey Brin and Larry PAGE, received whom presented project to an investor, it a cheque issued for Google Inc. Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream Aerospace goes back on the Grumman aircraft engineering corporation. 1985 were sold the company and renamed in Gulfstream Aerospace corporation after the gulf stream, which runs directly at the east coast of the USA.

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H&M 1947 furnished a Swedish businessman named Erling Persson a woman dress shop named "“Hennes"” in Sweden. "“Hennes"” is Swedish for "“it"”. 1968 acquired Persson the conditions for a chain, by buying up the camp of a hunt equipment shop named "“Mauritz"” Widforss. In the inventory of the shop was also an accumulation of man clothes, and Persson was requested to expand into the man clothes. Thus it designated the company to "“Hennes & Mauritz"”, which was shortened later to H&M. Haier Chinese The name is derived from the second syllable of the German enterprise dear gentleman, since the origin of the enterprise lies in a joint venture of dear gentleman. Hakle derived from the firm founder Hans Klenk. Hanuta Haselnusstafel.Haribo of the name of the founder and its German hometown: ''' Hectar ''' LV ''' Ri ''' egel ''' Bo ''' nn. Hasbro based of Henry and Helal hating field, the hating field Brothers.HB house miner (cigarettes) Hertie Hermann TietzHP William Hewlett and David luggage pool of broadcasting corporations threw a coin, in order to decide whether the company Hewlett-Packard or Packard Hewlett was called sollte.HEW Hamburgi works AGHHLA Hamburg port and logistics AGHitachi literally "“sunrise"”. Most derived from the seat of the inking attachments at that time pre-mount masters Lucius & in the city most (today Frankfurt most). Honda of the name of the founder Soichiro HondaHoneywell by the name Mark of Honeywell of the founder Honeywell Heating Specialty CO. (about "“Honeywell heating specialist"”). Later it fused with the Minneapolis Heat modulator company ("“Minneapolis company for heat modulators"”) and became at at the end of 1963 Honeywell Inc. called. Hospira the name, selected by the firm coworkers, comes from the English words "“hospital"” (hospital), "“Spirit"” (spirit), "“Inspire"” (Inspiriren) and latin word "“spero"” (=Hoffnung). It reflects the market focus of the enterprise as a manufacturer of Krankenhausartikeln.Hotmail founder Jack Smith had the idea to be able to query enamels over Internet of a computer everywhere on the world. When Sabeer Bhatia provided the enterprise plan for the Maildienst, he tried all possibilities out of names, which ended on "“mail"”, and finally remained with Hotmail, since it contained the letters "“HTML"” - the document language, which is used for Internet sides. Originally it also HoTMaiL with the certain upper and lower case printing capability was called (if one on Hotmails "“mail"” - rider clicks, finds one there still "“HoTMaiL"” in the URL) .HSBC The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation (about "“Hong Kong and Shanghaier banking company"”) Hyundai meaning of the words "“present"” or "“modern trend"” in Korean.

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IABG industrial plant operating company mbHIATA internationally air transport AssociationIBM based of a former coworker of the company national cash register ("“national bar teller machines"”). Around it in each aspect to overtrump it called the company "“internationally Business Machines"” ("“international one of business/enterprise machines"”) .iCodsi lab a word, which gives it in no language, it sounds well and naturally was created .com and .biz domains available Ikea from Ingvar Kamprad from Sweden. The name IKEA comes from a refined abbreviation of the initials of the founder, Ingvar Kamprad, whose family farm Elmtaryd was called, and in the proximity of the village Agunnaryd was. In addition the abbreviation is used for a Swedish sentence, which has the same abbreviation coincidentally in English: Ingvar Kamprad's Economical alternative (Ingvar Kamprads economic alternative) .IMS Connector of system based of Johann Morat became it later Johann Morat and sons, whereby the J in the course of the globalization sometime to the 'I became. Imhotep Ltd. designated after first engineer Imhotep (2686 v. Chr. - 2613 v. Chr., Egypt). He built the Stufenpyramide of Saqqara.Infineon Technologies AG after the separation from for Siemens the semiconductor line of business (Siemens HL or Siemens SC/SSC) became the name from the two words Infinity (infinity) and Aeon (eternity) gebildet.INA industry NadellagerInco internationally nickel company Intel Bob Noyce and Gordon of moorlands wanted to call it new company of "“moorlands Noyce"”, but the name was already protected by a hotel chain, therefore they had itself with the abbreviation from Integrated Electronics ("“integrated electronics"”) zufriedengeben.IVECO Industrial Vehicles corporation - combination of commercial vehicle manufacturers

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JVC Victor company OF Japan or Japan Victor company. The Victor is an abbreviation of the English word victory (=Sieg) and comes from the former nut/mother company Victor Talking Machine company.

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K2 after brothers the Bill and Don Kirschner (K2 = 2 Kirschner), the Namensgleicheit with the second highest mountain of the world is used gladly for advertising purposes. Kawasaki of the name of the firm founder Shozo Kawasaki.KBA Kienig and farmer corporation - manufacturer of DruckmaschinenKeli of the beverage dealers Kesterzani Linz was the inventor of the popular Limonade.KFA nuclear research activity plant (today: Research center (GmbH) KFC short form of Kentucky Fried Chicken (= Kentucky chicken frittierte). The company shortened its name 1991, in order to avoid the unhealthy impression of the word "“fried"” (= frittiert). Newer advertising spots try to arouse the impression that the abbreviation for "“Kitchen Fresh Chicken"” (= kitchen-fresh chicken) is based steht.KIA the name KIA on Chinese characters: AI stands for A for Asia for ascends and. Freely "“ascent from Asia " Kinko's translates of the college pointed name of the founder Paul Orfalea. It Kinko was called, because it curly red hair hatte.KKH since 1975 "“commercial health insurance company - KKH"”, in former times "“commercial health insurance company resounds"” to .KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Netherlands for "“royal aviation society"”) bang-grey as the two founders at the telephone over the company names spoke, came it to a misunderstanding: The one said "“bang"”, the other "“grey"”. Kodak the Kodak camera and the name were invented by the firm founder George Eastman. The letter "“K"” was his favourite letter, it found, it was a strong, concise letter. It tried different combinations of words out, which began or ended with "“K"”. He saw three advantages in this name: It had advantages as mark, can be hardly wrongly expressed and resembled nothing different one in the photography art. There is also (wrong) the rumor that the name from the noise of the shutter developed. Konica in former times was well-known the company under the name Konishiroku Kogaku. Konishiroku is the short form of Konishiya Rokubeiten, was the first name of the company of Rokusaburo Sugiura into the 1850ern.KPM royal porcelain Manufaktur Berlin.KPMG Klynveld, Peat, Marwick, GoerdelerKUNO criminality fight in the cashless exchange by use of not-police OrganisationenKTM Kronreif Trunkenpolz (firm founder) ''' M ''' attighofen (location in Austria) Kyocera of Kyoto Ceramics (= Kyoto ceramic(s))

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