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The lawn-spraying service used to be called ChemLawn, but then after about a decade people went "huh, do I really want chemicals all over my lawn?" and now they call themselves TruGreen, though I think they retained the ChemLawn part, they just don't really use it.
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WonderfulWino posted:Its amusing that after destroying terrestrial radio they rebrand themselves I♥radio. The internet and satellite radio did that.
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Heroin is called that because it was invented and trademarked by the Bayer corporation.
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Is Mtgox still around?
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AirTran Google (not a stupid company but what a stupid name)
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Lagrange posted:AirTran AirTran* thanks.
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zoux posted:AirTran* thanks.
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Cream_Filling posted:Wait this can't be real can it ClearChannel is still a thing, but like the Comcast/Xfinity thing people brought up before, they are rebranding because their name generates general dislike due to their well known lovely business practices. The company I work for now started out as Flakt, then Carborundum, then got bought out by electronics maker ABB, then through a series of further mergers became Alstom. Now it's being bought by GE and will become GE Power or something like that, who cares I'm leaving this job in like a month.
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Due to wage stagnation, companies find it harder to find talented, qualified people who need to be able to adapt to changing processes, retain knowledge of many contacts, be able to interface both with software and other employees smoothly, and other concerns because these people want to be compensated well. So they're forced to take the desperate, talentless idiots who can barely function because it saves them money allowing more money to flow up to the shareholders.
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NBC Blue --> ABC
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Cream_Filling posted:Is Mtgox still around? Nah, they went bankrupt and the ring leader did a runner with my £20 which was just a few pence originally.
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I'm gonna reverse on you here a bit.. a company that SHOULD have changed the product name but didn't. AYDS was a popular diet candy/appetite supressant in the 70's and early 80's. Then we found out about AIDS and the company steadfastly refused to change its name. Here's a commercial that is hilarious in retrospect. Especially the last line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkVuT5pw1g
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Cream_Filling posted:The National Biscuit Company is now just Nabisco whoa
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the Congo Free State
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Jay's Potato Chips used to be "Japp's". Then the whole WWII business happened.
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Isn't Firestone one of the most blatant cases of this?
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Isn't Firestone one of the most blatant cases of this? Firestone is still around.
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BigBoss posted:Firestone is still around. Didn't they rebrand completely as parent company Bridgestone for a while after that crazy amount of bad press?
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Dow Chemical you loving goons Except they didn't even have to change their name after killing thousands in India because money rules the world
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Black & Decker had to release tools under a different name because theirs had a lovely reputation. General Motors did this but with like 15 different names
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"Where do you want to go for lunch today? Oh I know, lets go to Hitler. Hitler looks pretty good."
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ProperCoochie posted:Dow Chemical you loving goons Dow Chemical bought them out recently
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The World Wrestling Federation was supposed to stop calling itself WWF like 20 years ago because that belonged to the World Wildlife Fund but its owner is a rich rear end in a top hat who doesn't give a gently caress so they only did it once forced (about 7 years later), and then only barely. They weren't in any real danger of going out of business though, because again, rich rear end in a top hat. Olive Mohel fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Downercut posted:The World Wrestling Federation was supposed to stop calling itself WWF like 20 years ago because that belonged to the World Wildlife Fund but its owner is a rich rear end in a top hat who doesn't give a gently caress so they only did it once forced (about 7 years later), and then only barely. 
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 They eventually changed the name in 1988. To Diet Ayds. It didn't help much.
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Mnemosyne posted:The lawn-spraying service used to be called ChemLawn, but then after about a decade people went "huh, do I really want chemicals all over my lawn?" and now they call themselves TruGreen, though I think they retained the ChemLawn part, they just don't really use it. Where are you from? I thought Trugreen was an Ohio only thing.
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butplug accident posted:Blackwater aka. XE aka. Academi It's under the banner of "Constellis Holdings" now.
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MegaGatts posted:It's under the banner of "Constellis Holdings" now. a private, professional military force led to the downfall of the roman empire so i can say that private murder soldiers are super good and cool
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:like a million fertility clinics called ISIS I forget what the hell this changed to but yeah, 
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Halah posted:I forget what the hell this changed to but yeah, It didn't change.
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Halah posted:I forget what the hell this changed to but yeah, theres a few of those at my work, they just changed their name to "Softcard"
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Square Enix -> Enix Square
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MegaGatts posted:It's under the banner of "Constellis Holdings" now. Googled this and got a redirect on Wikipedia to Triple Canopy. The names keep a changin'.
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Young Freud posted:Googled this and got a redirect on Wikipedia to Triple Canopy. The names keep a changin'. Triple Canopy was a competing security contractor, they had contracts during the iraq war wtf did blackwater and them merge
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We'll just go down to the phone company and straighten it out. Which phone company? There are hundreds of them. And they all keep changing their names. (SOBBING) I think we're with Comquaaq. No, I think its Niagular. No, last week they became Vertiqual.
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