Results: By Any Other Name...
Published on 10/09/2022
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In 1984, a clothing company called Ogori Shōji opened a shop in Hiroshima, Japan called 'Unique Clothing Warehouse'. They decided to register the brand under the contraction 'Uni-Clo', from the 'Unique Clothing' part of the name. But in 1988, the staff in charge of registering the name misread the 'C' as a 'Q', and it stuck. The name of the store was changed to Uniqlo, and ten years from the date of its first opening, there were over 100 of the popular casual clothing shops in Japan. Have you ever shopped at this store, and did you know that was where their name came from?
I do shop there and know this
4%
92 votes
I do shop there and did not know this
8%
185 votes
I am familiar with store (although do not shop there) and knew this
4%
95 votes
I am familiar with store (although do not shop there) and did not know this
8%
168 votes
Not familiar with this store
75%
1649 votes
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Many companies have rumors about how they came up with their name. For example, it's rumored that Adidas got its name from the acronym 'All Day I Dream About Soccer' (or, in the alternative, 'All Day I Dream About Sport'). Not true. The name is an abbreviation of the name of founder Adolf ("Adi") Dassler. The Dassler family began manufacturing shoes after World War I. In 1949, Adolf named a new company adidas (originally it was lowercase like that) after his nickname Adi and his last name Dassler. So Adi Dassler became adidas. Strangely enough, his brother Rudolf did the same thing with his company name, calling his new company Ruda (Rudolf Dassler). Soon after forming Ruda, though, he changed the name of the company to Puma, which remains its name today. Were you familiar with how the name Adidas originated?
Yes
14%
312 votes
No
75%
1641 votes
Undecided
11%
236 votes
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Were you familiar with how these company names originated?
Amazon -- Jeff Bezos, the company's CEO, wanted a name for his company which starts with "A" and means something huge.
15%
334 votes
IKEA -- Ingvar Kamprad invented a proper acronym which consisted of the first letters of his name and surname – "I" and "K" complimented with the first letters of the name of the villages where he grew up – Elmtaryd and Angunnaryd.
10%
228 votes
Virgin -- When the company was just established, one of the employees during one of the meetings suggested naming the company "Virgin", as it was very new – a kind of virgin in the business. Richard Branson obviously liked the idea.
10%
219 votes
Starbucks -- Coffee giant Starbucks actually got its name from a character in Herman Melville's Moby D*ck, the young chief mate Starbuck
18%
385 votes
None
68%
1482 votes
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