In a word: Origins of IKEA, Legos, Arby’s and more
Just my luck, backing out of my garage, I smashed into my old Fiat, which stands for Fabbrica Italiano Automobili Torino (not Fix it again, Tony ).
By Jim WitherellSpecial to the Sun Journal
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A couple weeks ago, when I was sitting at Arby’s, my seat afforded me a wonderful view of the old Kmart sign across the way. So naturally I started wondering just where the names of businesses came from.
Right then I made it my mission to find out the origins of actual company names that are just initials or perhaps peppy-sounding acronyms. But before I started my quest, I needed to get some walking-around money from my tax refund.