Company Facts

• The German company Siemens was incorporated in the singular form until 1961 when they started to internationalize and realized the phonetic meaning of the name in English.
• Hewlett Packard's first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
• The company that manufactures the greatest number of women's dresses each year is Mattell, for Barbie.
  
• Bayer, a German company registered heroin as a trademark.
• The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
• The company name Lycos comes from Lycosidae, the family of wolf spiders.
• Workers at Matsushita Electric Company, in Japan, beat dummies of their foremans with bamboo sticks to let off steam. The company at this time enjoyed 30 percent growth for 25 consecutive years.