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It’s generally the result of them starting as personal or family businesses, so initially your brand is your name. Then the business grows so large the relation
by masklinn 3y ago
It’s generally the result of them starting as personal or family businesses, so initially your brand is your name. Then the business grows so large the relationship inverts. It does not have much to do with germany really, it’s common the world over.
For example, just from US car brand, you obviously have Ford, but also Olds (Ransom E.), Chevrolet (Louis and Arthur), Buick (David), Chrystler (Walter), Dodge (Horace Elgin and John Francis), …
And I can’t fault a German industrialist from 1910 for not English-proofing his business.
- rob74 3y agoIt's not the lack of English-proofing, it's the connotations that this name has for Germans: "Sepp" is a very common and not really glamourous first name/nickname, and "frickeln" means tinkering or fiddling around with something (usually with the negative sense of tinkering rather than fixing it properly).
- jedrek 3y agoHow long has it been like this though? The meaning of words change surprisingly quickly, but not as quickly as their second-order connotations.