how big companies are named...interesting-2

AT&T- American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation officially changed its name to AT&T in the 1990s.


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Bauknecht- Founded as an electrotechnical workshop in 1919 by Gottlob Bauknecht .


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BBC- Stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.


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BenQ- Bringing ENjoyment and Quality to life


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Blaupunkt- Blaupunkt (Blue dot) was founded in 1923 under the name Ideal. Their core business was the manufacturing of headphones. If the headphones came through quality tests, the company would give the headphones a blue dot. The headphones quickly became known as the blue dots or blaue Punkte. The quality symbol would become a trademark, and the trademark would become the company name in 1938.


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BMW- abbreviation of Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Factories)


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Borealis - The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis, is the celestial phenomenon that features bursts of light in colourful patterns dancing across the night skies of the north. Borealis, inspired from the shining brilliance of the Northern Lights, was formed in 1994 out of the merger between two northern oil companies, Norway's Statoil and Finland's Neste.


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BP - formerly British Petroleum, now "BP" (The slogan "Beyond Petroleum" has incorrectly been taken to refer to the company's new name following its rebranding effort in 2000).


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BRAC- abbreviation for Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, world's largest NGO (non governmental organization) . It works in development programs around the world.


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Bridgestone- named after founder Shojiro Ishibashi. The surname Ishibashi (??) means "stone bridge", i.e. "bridge of stone".

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