Clever or stupid company names

The local racquet sport boutique is called “The Merchant of Tennis.”

The gas station/convenience store chain Wawa is pretty bad.

But it’s great compared to the Kum & Go chain!

In Bath, England there is/was a similar company named Bath Erections. I giggled at an advertisement of that one for awhile.

In the “stupid” category, we have the short-lived PR company named “Strange Fruit,” its owners evidently not expecting the sad history of that term to be a problem for them.

Ebbetts Pass Gas, in Arnold CA.

Cooking with Poo.

Now I hate them too!

It’s such a fine line…

I bet the people that work at the Cleveland Vibrator Company love telling new acquaintances where they work.

Flying Carpet Cleaning in surrey BC. The owner, Balbir, is a riot.

It’s a German company that’s buying up regional bakeries, so it’s becoming a major player. They’re in the northeast, having purchased Entemann’s and Freihoffer’s, but they have kept the brand names.

They insist it’s pronounced “beem-bo,” but good luck with that.

Royal Flush ( luxury loo hire)

Credit Crunch removal

I Scream ( Ice cream manufacturer)

Here in Corpus Christi their is a post acute specialty hospital for patients that need to be in the hospital for long periods of time. The name of the hospital is Post Acute Medical Specialty Hospital. This is worse because it’s a new name. The facility was previously known as Kindred. I think they should have been more creative. It’s as if Home Depot decided to rename itself Hardware Store.

Love: In Sod We Trust (Landscaping). Don’t know if there’s such a place anywhere, but I saw the name used in a cartoon years ago and it stuck.

Hate: Anything with the word “Solutions” in it. “Consolidated Solutions” - WTF service do they provide? I have lots of problems that need solutions, you’re going to have to be a little bit more specific.

Ever since good ol’ Larry the Cable Guy copyrighted the other misspelling as his personal catchphrase, it’s been much cheaper not to tangle with his lawyers and instead come up with your own creative (?) misspelling.
Move along now; nothing to see here.

German? Grupo Bimbo is a Mexican corporation.

**“…We have…”??? **Are you in the area? I’m just down the road…

One of the company founders used to drive a BIG older Cadillac stretched airport car to work with the license plate “FANNY”. I would see him on the interstate occasionally.

One company here leasing Port-a-Pottys is Johnny on the Spot

We have a shipping & packing store called Goin’ Postal. Nothing like a name associated with mass murder to stimulate business.

Not so much a company name as a slogan. There is a concrete crack repair service here called The Crack Team, and their slogan is, “A Dry Crack is a Happy Crack”

Our friends at Bimbo Bakeries just announced a recall due to possible glass shards in the product.

So if you have a bimbo lying aorund your house, take it back to the store for a refund! :smiley:

wrNow that I have my PSA out of the way…what I really came back here to mention is Tata motors, the Indian automobile manufacturer. A few years back when I worked for a steel manufacturer, they were one of our customers. We could never have a meeting and discuss the ‘Tata order’ without every male in the room snickering, accompanied, of course, by every female in the room rolling her eyes.