A.T. Kearney

One of the biggest management consulting firm in the world, the company was first established in 1926 was a part of the famous 'McKinsey & Company' in Chicgo. James McKinsey hired Andrew Thomas Kearney in 1929 as the firm's first partner. but after death of McKinsey in 1937 the Chicago office was split from rest of the company and latter it was renamed as A.T. Kearny company.

Currently the company is present globally in more than 40 countries with headquarter in Chicago.
This is the company which calculates the FDI confidenec index , a tool for benchmarking the restrictiveness of a country's FDI rules. 

Some abbreviations of common Indian Brands

Famous Indian Brands & their Abbreviations:

Havells : Haveli Ram Gandhi.

Dr.Reddy’s Pharmaceuticals:Dr.Anji Reddy

TVS: Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram (Iyengar)
ITC : Indian(Imperial) Tobacco Company.

PVR cinemas : Priya Village Roadshow

Wipro: Western India Palm and Refined Oil Corporation

ORPAT : Odhavji Raghavji Patel.

HCL: Hindustan Computers Limited.

MRF :Madras Rubber factory

MDH : Mahashian Di Hatti.

AMUL : Anand Milk Union Limited.

HDFC : Housing Development Finance Corporation

ICICI Bank : Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation Of India.

NDTV: New Delhi Television

L&T : Larsen and Toubro

IFB: Indian Fine Blanks

Ranbaxy: From the name of it’s founders Ranbir and Gurbax

*Parle is an Indian company & Bisleri is a product of Parle Bisleri Group.*

Apart from all this, Flying machine,Allen Solly, Louis philippe, Monte carlo, Munich Polo, Da milano,Franco leone, Peter England, Pan America all are Indian Companies.

Essar group

Essar Group is an Indian conglomerate. It has investments in steel,energy,infrastructure enterprises. It has over 73,000 employees.

A less known fact about the company is how it derived it's name.
It derives its name from its founders Shashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia. The initials of their names are 'S' & 'R' respectively. The initials are pronounced as 'Ess' and 'Aar'. Thus the company got its name.

The Brand Name: where it comes from?????????????

• Amul – Derived from the Sanskrit "Amoolya" meaning precious and was suggested by a quality control expert in Anand.

• Coca-Cola – Derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. Coca-Cola creator John S. Pemberton changed the 'K' of kola to 'C' to make the name look better.

• Dabur - Dr. S.K. Burman, laid the foundations of what is today known as Dabur India Limited. The brand name Dabur is derived from the words 'Da' for ‘Daktar’ or ‘Doctor’ and 'bur' from Burman.

• Facebook – Name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

• Google – an originally accidental misspelling of the word googol and settled upon because google.com was unregistered. Googol, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes was proposed to reflect the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.

• HBO – Home Box Office

• Hotmail –When Sabeer Bhatia & Jack Smith came up with the business plan for the mail service he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "HTML" – the markup language used to write web pages.

• Nokia – started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia. The company later adopted the city's name.

• Skype – the original concept for the name was Sky-Peer-to-Peer, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype.

• Tanishq – it has been formed by combining "Ta" (the first two letters of Tata) and "Nishk or Nishkh" (meaning gold coin or necklace in Sanskrit).

Burger King

 

 Burger King

Founded in  : Florida United States
Began In :1953(With name Insta Burger King)

After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954, its two Miami-based franchisees, David Edgerton and James McLamore, purchased the company and renamed it Burger King.

 Owners of company in subsequent years:

TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners,: In 2002
3G Capital of Brazil: form 2010 to current

Blogger

So we are publishing on blogger , it could have its own story 
ya it is.
Blogger was developed by Pyra Labs in 1999 which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com.

Yamaha

Yamaha, famous  for its motorbikes is actually started its business  to make musical instruments in 1887 by Torakusu Yamaha(men who pioneered the western musical instruments in Japan).Started with a name Nippon Gakki Company, Limited , Torakusu Yamaha first made a reed organ and deliver it to the then Music Institute (today's Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music).

Yamaha has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments (including pianos, "silent" pianos, drums, guitars, brass instruments, woodwinds, violins, violas, celli, and vibraphones), as well as a leading manufacturer of semiconductors, audio/visual, computer related products, sporting goods, home appliances, specialty metals and industrial robots.

After world war 2 the company started to manufacture motorcycles.