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24 Popular Brand Acronyms You Should Definitely Know

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    Sweetness - M&Ms Stands for: Mars & Murrie's and is named after Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie who started producing M&M'S exclusively for the military during WWII.
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    Product - YAHOO Stands for: Yet Another Hierarchical Official Oracle
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    Organism - CANOLA Stands for: Canadian Oil, Low Acid.
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    Product - WD40 Stands for: Water Displacement, WD-40 40th Attempt. warh Pr
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    Organism - GEICO Originally it was short for Government Employees Insurance Company
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    Product - PAM Means: Product of Arthur Meyerhoff. OLIVE OIL HUILE D'OLIVE
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    Auditorium - IMAX IMAX Stands for: Image Maximum. MAX
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    Logo - FREWI-FI Stands for Wireless Fidelity. HERE
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    Text - THE USA PATRIOT ACT Stands for: Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism PROTECTING THE HOMELAND
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    Zipper - YKK The abbreviation on almost every zipper in the world stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha which is a Japanese manufacturing company ww
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    Property - 24 CYSR cVs/phaCvs In it's earlier days, it stood for Consumer Value Stores. HOURS DRIVE-THRU PHARMACY
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    Green - 30 20 10 RADAR Stands for: Radio Detection and Ranging.
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    Food - TCBY Now means The Country's Best Yogurt but it originally meant This Can't Be Yogurt. They changed the name after being sued by a rival company called I Can't Believe It's Yogurt.
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    Facade - Зм Stands for: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing
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    Land vehicle - KLEIN SMART Car The SMART car began as a pFoject between Swatch and Mercedes hence it was originally code named the Swatch & Mercedes Art Car.
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    Text - ASICS The name of this Japanese athletic equipment manufacturer is derived from the Latin phrase "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano" which means a sound mind in a sound body.
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    Building - BIOK K-MART The K stands for founder Sebastian S. Kresge a
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    Footwear - ADIDAS There's a lot of different stories about this, but the truth is that it's named after the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler. adidas
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    White - Q-Tips Stands for: The Q represents Quality.
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    Banner - NABISCO NABISCStands for: National Biscuit Company. MABISCO
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    Advertising - H&M At first, the store was called Hennes, which is Swedish for "for her When they started selling men's clothing, it was renamed to Hennes & Mauritz EALE SALE S SALE SALE
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    Text - IT ALL DEPENDS ON ZIP CODE The ZIP is for Zone Improvement
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    Land vehicle - BMW Stands for: Bavarian Motor Works E30 M3
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    Eyewear - TASER Stands for: Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle
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