How Tech Brands Got Their Names
Barq’s is an American soft drink brand best known for their root beer. Probably surprising to most, but the company is over 120 years old and sells root beer, diet root beer, red cream soda, and French vanilla cream soda.
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Haribo is a German confectionery company founded in 1920. Haribo manufactures all sorts of gummy candies, including cola gummies, peach gummies, cherry gummies and berry gummies, but they are definitely best known for creating Haribo Gold Bears. Haribo was the first company to ever make gummy bears, and they’re now found all over the world.
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Mentos are the candies that freshen your breath with refreshing minty freshness and, if you have not heard, make Diet Coke explode. Oh, and if mint is not your thing, Mentos also come in fruit flavors, but be forewarned – the fruit flavors will do nothing exciting to Diet Coke. Originally thought of as a peppermint caramel candy, the Van Melle brothers came up with the idea for Mentos during a train trip to Poland in 1932. Van Melle (now Perfetti Van Melle via a merger with the Perfetti Group) was already a very well known confectionary brand in the Netherlands at the time but they were relatively unheard of in the USA. However, by the 1960s Mentos redesigned their packaging into the roll we still see today and took their product global.
Chloie Parsons is the Chief Creative Mind at C2C Designs. When she is not merrily building brands, you can find her painting, illustrating, kayaking the lakes, or at the river fly-fishing.”
The Lotus Engineering Company was founded by Colin Chapman and Michael Allen in 1952. However, the partners split ways within the same year, and so The Lotus Engineering Company Limited was formed by Colin Chapman and his girlfriend—who later became his wife—Hazel Williams, one year later in 1953. The new company was headquartered at the Railway Hotel in Hornsey, North London, where Chapman built race cars in his spare time.
Rebecca Henderson is the published author and professional editor at The Kreativ Space. Best expressing herself through the written word, she enjoys the smell of burning rubber as well. Rebecca hopes to shift your world perspective through her words, because looking out the same window every day hardly makes for an interesting life.
Pagani Automobile S.p.A was founded by Horacio Pagani in 1992, after the Argentinian left Lamborghini to pursue what he knew to be the next big thing in the automotive industry: carbon fiber.
Rebecca Henderson is the published author and professional editor at The Kreativ Space. Best expressing herself through the written word, she enjoys the smell of burning rubber as well. Rebecca hopes to shift your world perspective through her words, because looking out the same window every day hardly makes for an interesting life.