{"id":11055,"date":"2007-04-17T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T22:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/17\/whats-in-a-company-name.html"},"modified":"2007-04-17T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T22:30:41","slug":"whats_in_a_company_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/17\/whats_in_a_company_name.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a company name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool Wikipedia page on company name etymologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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eBay<\/a> \u2014 Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. “Echo Bay” didn’t refer to the town in Nevada, “It just sounded cool,” Omidyar reportedly said. Echo Bay Mines Limited<\/a>, a gold mining company, had already taken EchoBay.com, so Omidyar registered what (at the time) he thought was the second best name: eBay.com.<\/p>\n

ELF<\/a> \u2014 French oil company, its name is an abbreviation of E<\/b>ssence et L<\/b>ubrifiants de F<\/b>rance (Oil and Lubricants from France).<\/p>\n

ESPN<\/a> \u2014 E<\/b>ntertainment and S<\/b>ports P<\/b>rogrammming N<\/b>etwork<\/p>\n

Epson<\/a> \u2014 Epson Seiko Corporation, the Japanese printer and peripheral manufacturer, was named from “Son<\/b> of E<\/b>lectronic P<\/b>rinter”<\/p>\n

Esso<\/a> \u2014 the enunciation of the initials S.O. in S<\/b>tandard O<\/b>il of New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Exxon<\/a> \u2014 a name contrived by Esso (Standard Oil of New Jersey) in the early 1970s to create a neutral but distinctive label for the company. Within days, Exxon was being called the “double cross company” but this eventually subsided. (Esso is a trademark of ExxonMobil.) Esso had to change its name in the USA because of restrictions dating to the 1911<\/a> Standard Oil antitrust<\/a> decision.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool Wikipedia page on company name etymologies. eBay \u2014 Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6651,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/the_names_the_t.html","url_meta":{"origin":11055,"position":0},"title":"The name’s the thing","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Aug-04 6:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"A list of company name etymologies: * 3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper. * 7-Eleven - 7-Eleven was...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28453,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/turning-to-the-echo-chamber.html","url_meta":{"origin":11055,"position":1},"title":"Turning to the Echo Chamber","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jul-12 11:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"It will be interesting to see how long the Romney campaign can actually focus all its attention on just the Far Right web media\u00a0like Drudge and Breitbart in an attempt to avoid problematic\u00a0policy questions from the (largely useless, but still occasionally inconvenient) mainstream media.If he manages it through November --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7223,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/jeff_you_were_o.html","url_meta":{"origin":11055,"position":2},"title":"“Jeff — you were on the Line?”","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Apr-05 6:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Joe Straczynski is paring down his burgeoning memorabilia collection on eBay. 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