How Famous Companies Got Their Names?

You see these big company names each and every day, but do you know what they actually mean?

In order to help you fill this gap of knowledge, we made a visual list of famous company name etymologies. It is heavily based on this Wikipedia's list, where you can also find the complete listing of companies and their name origins not mentioned in this post.

So, scroll down the list and then tell us how many did you already know?

source: uttertrivia.com

source: adobe.com/.../fastfacts.pdf

source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com

source: audiworld.com

source: wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay

source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebok

source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Corporation