Interesting Info: How well-known brands got their names

[cooleo]

 

[cooleo]

 

[saratogas]

Brand Singapore - Sang Nila Utama named this tiny island Singapura (Lion City), that is where Singa our Courtesy Lion comes about. We are briefly called Temasek by some sultan... That where Temasek Holdings get it's name...

Our gahment paid alot of $$$ marketing and advertise our "Singapore" to the rest of the World!

 

[Narong Wongwan]

I only know ADIDAS stands for All Day I Dream About Sex

 

[Faidenk]

Alternative brands from People's Republic of China

Other alternatives:

 

[ThugSin]

 

[Batok Seri]

Gentlemen,
We need to think of a short but memorable name for our cooperative.
For inspiration,
Think of our great leader.
Think of his vision.

Done?

Wah, so fast! Incredible!
You all came up with the same word?
We will use it but must jumble up the letters
Cannot be so obvious mah..

That's how

was named in a secret meeting a long time ago.
The brand

was inspired by this christening methodology.

 

[Batok Seri]

And you know why "Kwanon"?
The founder was a devotee of the Goddess of Mercy "Kwan Im".

 

[Ramseth]

NTUC everybody knows it stands for National Trades Union Congress. What about the Income as in NTUC Income? It stands for Insurance Co-operative Multi-Enterprise. Few people know this now, not even the Income staff now.

 

[Lee5604]

These names like NTUC Income and NTUC Fairprice and NTUC Comfort were coined by Devan Nair, yes, the former President of Singapore.

 

[Ramseth]

These names like NTUC Income and NTUC Fairprice and NTUC Comfort were coined by Devan Nair, yes, the former President of Singapore.

FairPrice and Comfort, yes, by Devan Nair. Income, no, it was by Goh Keng Swee. At that time of starting union co-operatives, the name Income gave rise to the name Wellcome for the retail side. NTUC Wellcome and SILO (Singapore Independent Labour Organisation) were merged (or rather, NTUC aquired SILO) later to become NTUC FairPrice. In those days, SILO was the supermarket co-operative and NTUC Wellcome was the department store co-operative. Comfort came later when NTUC decided to start a taxi co-operative too after the government abolished individual ownership of taxi.

 

[Faidenk]

If you rearrange the alphabets of NTUC, invariably you'll stumble across a word describing an unmentionable part of a woman's anatomy.