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Philip Morris changed their name to Altria after killing a billion people with tobacco. Sallie Mae is changing their name to Navient because their customer service is outsourced and terrible. Am I missing any others
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IG Farben.
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Oct 9, 2014 16:06
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Blackwater changed their name a couple of times. A lovely landlord in Boston changed his company's name so the bad reviews on the landlord rating sites/yelp would stop piling up. (All of their signs on buildings stayed the same)
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Oct 9, 2014 16:08
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jBrereton posted:IG Farben. Well now I really don't want to buy Bayer's overpriced aspirin
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Oct 9, 2014 16:08
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EugeneJ posted:Well now I really don't want to buy Bayer's overpriced aspirin just grow a willow tree.
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Union Carbide?
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Oct 9, 2014 16:09
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Comcast is sort of doing it with XFinity
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Oct 9, 2014 16:10
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Germany had this whole fiasco where their CEO was a crazy guy who did stupid poo poo all the time so all the board members moved to South America to make new startups
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Windows 9
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Oct 9, 2014 16:11
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wackenhut hides behind the name geo group/g4s
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David Copperfield posted:Windows 9 lol
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Oct 9, 2014 16:13
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David Copperfield posted:Blackwater changed their name a couple of times.
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Oct 9, 2014 16:14
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every mattress store, as they're all perpetually going out of business.
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Oct 9, 2014 16:15
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Beaners changed their name to Bigsby for some reason.
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Oct 9, 2014 16:16
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"Richard Kyanka"
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Chastity Bono
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Spanish Manlove posted:Germany had this whole fiasco where their CEO was a crazy guy who did stupid poo poo all the time so all the board members moved to South America to make new startups didnt mention the hostile takeovers
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Oct 9, 2014 16:18
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Ratners... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
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Oct 9, 2014 16:20
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Frostwerks posted:didnt mention the hostile takeovers well yeah they were bought out by a surprisingly diverse group half comprised of VCs and a bunch of hippie bitch idiots who wanted to change the world with their opposing idealogy. They couldn't really agree on anything and it took like 40 years to settle their differences and merge together but god drat are they controlling the marketplace today
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Oct 9, 2014 16:21
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Blackwater aka. XE aka. Academi
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Oct 9, 2014 16:22
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Spanish Manlove posted:Germany had this whole fiasco where their CEO was a crazy guy who did stupid poo poo all the time so all the board members moved to South America to make new startups lol also, ticketmaster and live nation
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Oct 9, 2014 16:23
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like a million fertility clinics called ISIS
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:like a million fertility clinics called ISIS I thought you were kidding http://isisrfc.com/
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ValuJet
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A year before the Enron scandal broke, Andersen Consulting broke ties with Arthur Andersen, changing their name to Accenture. Accenture was lucky to get out when they did, since Arthur Andersen has pretty much been dissolved.
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butplug accident posted:Blackwater aka. XE aka. Academi
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Bip Roberts posted:"Richard Kyanka"
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Amway / Quixtar
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ClearChannel is now IHeartRadio/IHeartMedia.
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Liberalism ----> Progressivism
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The spastics society (a charity for disabled people) had to change their name to scope because British school kids made their charity name as a slur.
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AIG, which was bailed out and now the former ceo is suing for lost stock value leave it to ny post to defend him lol http://nypost.com/2014/10/09/aig-case-is-no-joke-is-there-anything-fed-cant-do/
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KFC doesn't officially stand for "Kentucky Fried Chicken" anymore
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Y-Hat posted:KFC doesn't officially stand for "Kentucky Fried Chicken" anymore What does it stand for?
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zoux posted:What does it stand for? KFC
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Y-Hat posted:KFC doesn't officially stand for "Kentucky Fried Chicken" anymore CNN did this too I think
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Rusty Staub posted:CNN did this too I think BP now officially stands for BP The National Biscuit Company is now just Nabisco
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Internet Cliche posted:ClearChannel is now IHeartRadio/IHeartMedia. Its amusing that after destroying terrestrial radio they rebrand themselves I♥radio.
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Internet Cliche posted:ClearChannel is now IHeartRadio/IHeartMedia. Wait this can't be real can it
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I guess at a certain level of monopoly power/infamy you start wanting to make it harder for people to say your name in discussions, not easier, e.g. Xe and Clearcjannel
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