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Message 1443050 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 15:54:45 UTC
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Ever thought wow what a great name for a company or I wish I had thought of that.

Well here are my favourite 2.

Sun Microsystems.

With a name like that their stuff just must be good.

Industrial light and Magic.

Wow this must be the coolest name ever for a special effects company.
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Message 1443053 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 15:59:59 UTC

Skywalker sound.



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Message 1443054 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 16:04:08 UTC - in response to Message 1443050.  

Ever thought wow what a great name for a company or I wish I had thought of that.

Well here are my favourite 2.

Sun Microsystems.

With a name like that their stuff just must be good.

Industrial light and Magic.

Wow this must be the coolest name ever for a special effects company.


Regarding ILM and Skywalker Sound; are/were they both under Lucas Films Lmtd. or, are they separate corporations owned by Lucas? I only ask because, now that Disney owns Lucas Films do they also own the other two entities; or, does Lucas retain the two remaining companies?


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Message 1443060 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 16:08:49 UTC - in response to Message 1443054.  

Ever thought wow what a great name for a company or I wish I had thought of that.

Well here are my favourite 2.

Sun Microsystems.

With a name like that their stuff just must be good.

Industrial light and Magic.

Wow this must be the coolest name ever for a special effects company.


Regarding ILM and Skywalker Sound; are/were they both under Lucas Films Lmtd. or, are they separate corporations owned by Lucas? I only ask because, now that Disney owns Lucas Films do they also own the other two entities; or, does Lucas retain the two remaining companies?


No idea TL. I saw ILM in the credits of a movie I watched last night and it inspired me to start this thread.
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Message 1443070 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 16:19:17 UTC
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ILM and Skywalker Sound were two separate entities owned by Lucasfilm, all of which were founded by George Lucas that are now owned by Disney. In fact, Pixar Animation Studios was another division of LucasFilm before it was sold to Disney 6 years prior to Disney buying all of LucasFilm.
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Message 1443079 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 16:34:08 UTC - in response to Message 1443070.  

ILM and Skywalker Sound were two separate entities owned by Lucasfilm, all of which were founded by George Lucas that are now owned by Disney. In fact, Pixar Animation Studios was another division of LucasFilm before it was sold to Disney 6 years prior to Disney buying all of LucasFilm.

Thanks for the ILM link Volunteer tester. Not only do they have a brilliant name but they have done so much incredible stuff.
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Message 1443086 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 16:41:44 UTC - in response to Message 1443075.  

I will disagree!

Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft both have their history of microcomputers in their name. At the time when they were founded, they hadn't coined the term desktops yet as they didn't exist. All they had was mainframes, mini mainframes, and the newly emerging smaller versions called microcomputers. Both of those company names have turned out to be a shortsighted view of the future.

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What are you disagreeing with Chris? Dont you think the name Sun Microsystems sounds good.
Microsoft doesn't sound good - it makes me think of small ineffective man parts.What would you rather say, I have a Sun Microsystem or I have a Microsoft ?
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Message 1443108 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 17:22:36 UTC - in response to Message 1443103.  
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Message 1443111 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 17:24:11 UTC - in response to Message 1443108.  
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I am disagreeing with the suggestion, as per the title of this thread, that they are best sounding business names. I think that both of them demonstrate that there were shortsighted and were bad examples. Anyone got any better ones?


The thread title is suggesting the poster posts what they think are the best sounding and/or favourite names of businesses.

Should know better than to start a subjective thread where you just ask what do people like. derrr.
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Message 1443118 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 17:35:34 UTC

Dunkin Donuts is nicely alliterative.

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Message 1443155 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 20:41:18 UTC

There is a company in the US that sells very large ceiling fans, for factories and warehouses. Their name is Big Assed Fans.

There are some great names in old railroad company names. My personal favorite is a small railroad that only lasted for a few years back in the late 1800s. They ran a line about 2 miles long between the towns of Fort Erie and Snake Hill in southern Ontario. (Snake Hill today is a neighbourhood in Fort Erie.) Although this little strip of rail was about 3,000 miles from the west coast, they were obviously thinking big because they named the company the Fort Erie, Snake Hill, And Pacific Rail Road.

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Message 1443160 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 20:59:42 UTC

Dewey, Cheatham & Howe Investments.
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Message 1443163 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 21:10:25 UTC

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Message 1443184 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 21:49:08 UTC

My personal favourite is......
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Message 1443189 - Posted: 16 Nov 2013, 21:58:57 UTC


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Message 1443241 - Posted: 17 Nov 2013, 2:01:47 UTC

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Message 1443243 - Posted: 17 Nov 2013, 2:09:28 UTC - in response to Message 1443160.  
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Dewey, Cheatham & Howe Investments.

I thought they were a Law Firm, specializing in Business Law and Divorce. When did they branch out into Investments?
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Message 1443266 - Posted: 17 Nov 2013, 3:21:15 UTC - in response to Message 1443155.  

There is a company in the US that sells very large ceiling fans, for factories and warehouses. Their name is Big Assed Fans.

There are some great names in old railroad company names. My personal favorite is a small railroad that only lasted for a few years back in the late 1800s. They ran a line about 2 miles long between the towns of Fort Erie and Snake Hill in southern Ontario. (Snake Hill today is a neighbourhood in Fort Erie.) Although this little strip of rail was about 3,000 miles from the west coast, they were obviously thinking big because they named the company the Fort Erie, Snake Hill, And Pacific Rail Road.

In those days, a grandiose name was a way to sucker in investors to buy their stock. It also gave them a license of sorts to build pretty much anywhere they felt like it west of where they started.

The St. Louis San Francisco Railway never got west of Kansas City, and Ft. Worth TX.

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Message 1443384 - Posted: 17 Nov 2013, 15:21:09 UTC - in response to Message 1443356.  

With Monday's permission I'm gonna add in my favourite best company logo.



That is the former British Rail logo in the UK. It could represent a single track with an electric symbol on it, or it could represent two trains passing each other, one going to the right, the other to the left. Classically simple and brilliant.

(Yes UK trains "Drive on the left"!)


Go right ahead Chris.

It could also equal zorro. :-)
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Message 1443387 - Posted: 17 Nov 2013, 15:29:53 UTC
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Good idea Chris lets add logos to the thread as well.


Edit = retitle thread :-)
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