A bit of useless information!!

Mac3blade wrote:When I was growing up, my father used to enjoy sharing what he called “useless information “ and I still remember them.
We all know TESCO and it’s a name we’ve known for years but do you know how the name came about?
A gentleman called Cohen was the founder of this brand and his wife was called TESSA COHEN so he decided to call it after her! The names were both slightly shortened to create TES CO. TESCO.
As simple as that. Tesco was born.

I love useless information, does anyone have any to share??

Origins

blingle wrote:

Darro wrote:The LG stands for'Life's Good'.

It came into being in 1995 when the Korean 'Lucky Star' company reinvented themselves and changed it.

Not according to....ermmmm...LG...!!!

"Life's Good" is their slogan.

https://www.lg.com/global/our-brand/brand-story/

Darro wrote:

blingle wrote:

Darro wrote:The LG stands for'Life's Good'.

It came into being in 1995 when the Korean 'Lucky Star' company reinvented themselves and changed it.

Not according to....ermmmm...LG...!!!

"Life's Good" is their slogan.

https://www.lg.com/global/our-brand/brand-story/

If you read it all the way through you'll see that the truncated "LG" name did indeed come about in 1995.

On January 1, 1995, the morning newspapers unveiled LG's new CI to citizens nationwide. The winking red smiley face had a simple message printed below, "Happy New Year."

The ad sparked widespread curiosity. Then, on January 4, after the New Year holidays, LG satisfied public curiosity with a full-page newspaper article titled, "Lucky Goldstar turns into LG." This was LG's first official greeting to the public.