Brands named after Wives
Wife responsible for the brand Name/origin
1) The polish was developed in Australia by William Ramsay who named it Kiwi after the flightless bird endemic to New Zealand, the home country of his wife, Annie Elizabeth Meek Ramsay.
2) The production company EON Productions of Bond films and its parent (holding) company Danjaq, LLC, named after their two wives' first names—Dana and Jacquiline.
3) The company was rechristened, with Harold adding a version of his wife's family name, Leigh, to his own to create Lee Cooper
4)Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901, by John Francis Queeny, a 30‑year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry. He funded the start-up with his own money and capital from a soft drink distributor and gave the company his wife's maiden name
5) Sumeet has its origins in a challenge from a wife to her husband,Satya Prakash Mathur .In his daughter's words “My
mother had a Braun blender from Germany but the motor burnt out as it
was not meant for the heavy-duty grinding Indian cooking calls for.
Since there were no Braun service centres in India then, she told my
father that if he really was an engineer, he should be able to repair
it,”
6) The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson for his wife Josephine, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking
7) The concept of a PIN originates with the inventor of the ATM, John Shepherd-Barron.
One day in 1967, while thinking about more efficient ways banks could
dispense cash to their customers, it occurred to him that the vending machine model was a proven fit. For authentication
Shepherd-Barron at first envisioned a six-digit numeric code, given
what he could reliably remember. His wife however preferred four digits,
which became the most commonly used length
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