Stories behind "10" popular Brand Names
IKEA 17 years old young businessman called Ingvar kamprad is founder of IKEA in 1943. The furniture name is actually an acronym of Ingvar kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, Here "Ik" indicates founder name and "E" indicates farm name where founder raised and "A" indicates founder home town. GOOGLE Founded in 1996 and originally called as "Backrub". Later , when co-founder Larry Page missepelled the number "Googol",which is digit followed by 100 zeroes. Larry Page and co-founder Berin decided to rename Backrub as Google , because domain name was available. Page said, Most of the people misspell many things, that is why Google corrects spelling mistakes of all searches. SAMSUNG In 1938, founder Lee Byung-chull named his company Samsung because it means "Three stars" in Korean . He wanted his company to lasts forever like stars in the sky, while number three rep...