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).

Amul India

An Indian Dairy Cooperative
Head quarter: Anand , Gujrat, India.
Key people :Chairman, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF)
Founded 1946

The Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Ltd. was registered on 1 December 1946 as a response to the exploitation of marginal milk producers by traders or agents of the only existing dairy, the Polson (brand) dairy, in the small town of Anand (in Kaira District of Gujarat).Milk producers had to travel long distances to deliver milk, which often went sour in summer, to Polson.Moreover, the government at that time had given monopoly rights to Polson to collect milk from Anand and supply it to Bombay city.



Angered by the unfair trade practices, the farmers of Kaira approached Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel under the leadership of local farmer leader Tribhuvandas K. Patel. He advised them to form a cooperative and supply milk directly to the Bombay Milk Scheme instead of Polson (who did the same but gave them low prices). He sent Morarji Desai to organise the farmers. In 1946, the milk farmers of the area went on a strike which led to the setting up of the cooperative to collect and process milk. Milk collection was decentralized, as most producers were marginal farmers who could deliver atmost 1–2 litres of milk per day. Cooperatives were formed for each village too.
The Cooperative was further developed and managed by Dr.Verghese Kurien along with H.M. Dalaya. Dalaya's innovation of making skim milk powder from buffalo milk for the first time anywhere in the world and a little later, along with Kurien's help, making it on a commercial scale, led to the first modern dairy of the cooperative at Anand, which would compete against established players in the market.

The trio's (T. K. Patel, Kurien and Dalaya's) success at the cooperative's dairy soon spread to Anand's neighbourhood in Gujarat, and within a short span, five unions in other districts – Mehsana, Banaskantha, Baroda, Sabarkantha and Surat were set up. In order to combine forces and expand the market while saving on advertising and avoid competing against each other, the GCMMF, an apex marketing body of these district cooperatives was set up in 1973. The Kaira Union which had the brand name of Amul with it since 1955, transferred it to GCMMF.