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Taco Bell designated after the firm founder Glen BellTAM the name of the second largest Brazilian airline is the abbreviation of T'ransportes M'ar­lia; the society was created in the city (Federal State Paulo) by Rolim Amaro. Taxan (Japanese electronics company) artificial name, which was selected, because on the one hand "“Takusan"” (jap. for "“much (e)"”) as name seemed favorable, on the other hand (and mainly), because the head of the company (at the time in the USA) admits all as "“Tak san"” (jap. about "“Mr. Tak"” and/or polite discussion of the name) warTC designated after the first tour operator ''' T ''' homas ''' C ''' ookTchibo Tchiling bean, after Carl Tchiling HirrianTesa designated after the pointed name of the secretary Elsa Tesmer, which worked at Beiersdorf Co. Tesco (global supermarket chain) the founder Jack Cohen sold vegetables on the markets of the Londoner East starting from 1919 ends. He took over a large charge dte of T.E. stick-waves and provides new labels, with which he mixed parts of his name and the supplier's name: T.E. stick-wave + Jack CohenTexaco from the English: Texas companyTHX (cinema quality seals) of the name of the inventor of this audio technology and among other things the Crossover Equalizer used therein: ''' T ''' omlinson ''' H ''' olman Crossover (English) for (over) crossing, thus X). This interpretation could have developed however only after the abbreviation (Backronym), since George Lucas possesses the technology and it developed for Hortons (coffee and Donutkette from Canada) for a long time before the invention a film named THX 1138 turned hatteTim designated after the founder, the ice hockey player of the Buffalo Sabres, Tim HortonToblerone Jean Tobler (firm founder), torrone (Italian for Nougat) Toshiba the company from a fusion of the consumer goods manufacturer To'kyo Denki and the electro-technology company Shiba'ura Seisaku sho and Tokyo Shibaura Denki was called, became however only under the abbreviation Toshiba admits. Toyota designated after the name of the firm founder Sakichi Toyoda. The company Toyoda was called original, was however renamed, since the new name is to be expressed better and the firm founder its private name returns. The new name is drawn in katakana characters with eight lines, this is in Asia a leotard goods factory of brothers MayerTVR the name of this sportscar manufacturer comes from the first name of the firm founder Trevor Wilkinson.

U

Umbro (British sport clothing manufacturer) became 1924 of the Humphrey Brothers Harold C. and Wallace United Artists.UBS original the French version of the firm abbreviation of the Swiss banking company (- > union of the Banques Suisse). After the fusion with the Swiss bank association UBS should be called first United bank OF Switzerland, this name was however already occupied. Thus UBS is called simply nothing. Unisys (US-American computer science Dienstleister) of United information of system (about united information systems), the new name for the company, which came out from the fusion two former Mainframe manufacturers of the Burroughs and SPERRY. It united two incompatible Produktsortimente.unterm cut through emerged for the first time at the beginning of of 1980 as Plattenladen in the communist Hamburg Punkbewegung. The shop surface was in the Tiefparterre to the road "“average"”. Since 1999 a music label from 1921 designated as cross-country works and streetcars Hanover AGUFA ''' U ''' niversum ''' F ''' ilm ''' A ''' ktiengesellschaftUNOCAL the union oil company OF California 1890 ''' U ''' nited ''' P ''' arcel ''' S ''' erviceUUNET one the oldest and largest Internet service Provider of the industry, designated after ''' U ''' NIX ton UNIX ''' Net ''' work

V

VAG Volkswagen AG Varig the name of the largest Brazilian airline is an abbreviation of Rio G'randense, there it in the Brazilian Federal State Rio Grande DO Sul based wurde.VARTA selling, loading and repair of transportable AkkumulatorenVDO combined Deuta OTA (Deuta: German speedometer works; OTA: from named-legal doubts changed OSA; OSA: Petrol school CPU autometer works; Otto Schulze: Speedometer developer) VEBA combined electricity and mine AGVerizon a luggage word out veri'tas (lat. truth) and horizon' (English horizon) VIAG combined industrial enterprise AGVictorinox Victoria (nut/mother of the firm founder) and inoxydable (frz. for stainless) Vileda of: like LederVirgin a friend of the firm founder Richard Branson meant, in business things were they everything still Jungfrauen.Vodafone Voice, DATA of over Cellphone. pH became too f.Volvo lat. for: I rolleVW Volkswagen AG

W

Wachovia corporation (finances/bank) of latin version of the name ''' Wachau '''. An area in North Carolina, the USA was called in such a way because of the German settlers from this area, and many companies around the place Charlotte carried "“Wachovia"” in name WAIT rose this British supermarket chain after two the founder were designated: Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose, David TaylorWal Mart SAM whale clay/tone - > "“Walton's Mart " Wang Laboratories designated after the inventor of the core memory and firm founder at WangWendy's this nearly Food chain was created after the pointed name by Melinda Thomas, the daughter of the firm founder Dave Thomas, benanntWHSmith (British) book and magazine chain) by Henry whale clay/tone Smith and his Mrs. Anna 1792 in London. They called their small newspaper business after its son William Henry Smith, that in the same year born wurdeWilliams Sonoma based from Chuck Williams in Sonoma (California) Wipro Western India Products Limited (the today's IT-company placed in former times housewares ago) WMF ''' W ''' ''' M ''' etallwaren ''' f ''' abrikWLZ agricultural central cooperative Raiffeisen eGmbH, now merged with of the name of the firm founder Adolf

X

Xerox of the inventors of the photocopying machine, Chester Carlson, used the Greek syllable more xer = drying, in order to stress the difference to the before well-known wet Hektographie.

Y

Yahoo! The word originates from the book Gullivers journeys from Jonathan Swift and describes only after the appearance manlike nature with animal behavior. The firm founders David Filo and Jerry Yang called themselves jokeful as Yahoos. Later the word than Backronym reinterpreted too "„Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle "“. Yoplait in the year 1965 fused the companies Yola and Coplait. The Logo of the common company is a bloom, which the six main cooperatives symbolize, which educated the company.

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Zend Technologies from the names of the two founders had built ''' CPU ''' ev Suraski and A ''' lp ''' i GutmansZewa cellulose WaldhofZuse kg based of the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, the end of the 1930er-Jahre its first computer in the living room of its parents. Later this company was taken over by Siemens.

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• Etymologie
• Abbreviations
• Enterprise

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