Brand names are key in marketing because it is the first thing people notice about any Business. Some brands become so popular that after some time, they become part of the vocabulary. Meanwhile, there are many brand names that most people don’t know the full forms of. To increase your knowledge regarding these brands we have made a list of brands with the full forms of their names.
1. BPL
It stands for British Physical Laboratories. BPL is an Indian electronics company and was founded in the year 1963.
2. BSA
The full form of BSA is Birmingham Small Arms. BSA provides customers an extensive range of bicycles and mobility products.
3. DLF
DLF means Delhi Land & Finance. It was founded by Ch. Raghvendra Singh in 1946. DLF has been awarded as Developer of the Decade in 2016 in CNBC Awaaz Real Estate Awards.
4. FIAT
Fiat produced its first automobile in the year 1899 and is the largest manufacturer of automobiles in Italy. It was founded by Giovanni Agnelli.
5. HDFC
HDFC means Housing Development Finance Corporation. It was founded in the year 1977 by Hasmukhbhai Parekh. HDFC Bank is currently the largest private sector lender by assets in India.
6. HTC
HTC is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company. HTC stands for High Tech Computer Corporation and was founded in 1997.
7. IBM
The full form of IBM is International Business Machines Corporation. It was founded in 1911 by Charles Ranlett Flint.
8. ICICI
ICICI stands for Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India. It was founded in 1994. ICICI Bank now has approx. 80,000 employees as of 2017.
9. JBL
JBL is an American electronics company founded in 1946 by James Bullough Lansing. It has been named as JBL because of the name of the founder.
10. LG
LG got its full form from the merging of Lucky Chemical with GoldStar and it became Lucky Goldstar. LG was founded in October 1958.
These are the full-forms of 10 popular brands that you probably don’t know. Do share more such brands with the story behind their names with us.
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