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A fun look at some of the oldest corporate logos still (more or less) being used, along with notes about their origins. \u00a0I have to say, I had absolutely no idea about Shell's origin.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Ten Oldest Company Logos in the World – 24\/7 Wall St.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A fun look at some of the oldest corporate logos still (more or less) being used, along with notes about their origins. \u00a0I have to say, I had absolutely no idea about Shell's origin.\ufeff Ten Oldest Company Logos in the World – 24\/7 Wall St. View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128087,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/logos-and-changes-and-brands-oh-my.html","url_meta":{"origin":43254,"position":0},"title":"Logos and Changes and Brands, Oh My!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Sep-15 1:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If there is one truism, it's that art is in the eye of the beholder. 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