25 Companies and Their Inception

22. Virgin

Virgin is a British Multinational company founded by Richard Branson. When Richard was at school he started a magazine which he named “Student”. In his autobiography, “Loosing My Virginity” Richard says that when they were commencing a business of selling records by mail order, "one of the girls suggested: 'What about Virgin? We're complete virgins at business” as quoted by Wikipedia. The core business areas of the company are entertainment, lifestyle, travel and many more.

23. Nokia

Nokia is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation, headquartered at Keilaniemi. The company started as a wood pulp mill and further extended into producing rubber goods at the Finnish city of Nokia. The company was named after the city itself.

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24. HP

While deciding the company name co-founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to choose whether the company should be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. The toss settled down for Hewlett-Packard. HP American information technology MNC headquartered in Palo. The business area of HP also includes solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, health and education sectors including customers in the government.

25. HSBC

HSBC stands for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. HSBC is a universal bank and is organized within four business groups: Commercial banking; Investment banking; Retail Banking and Wealth Management and Global Private Banking.

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