Can you name the current names of the companies who used to be called...?

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Enter a company in the box below
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Names may have been changed for any reason, including acquisitions or rebranding
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Old Name	Current Name	Industry
Pemberton Medicine Company		Beverage
Standard Games		Gaming
ValuJet		Airline
Bell Atlantic		Telecom
National Biscuit Company		Food
Holt Manufacturing		Manufacturing
Connecticut Leather Company		Gaming
Cowpland Research Laboratory		Computer
AuctionWeb		Internet
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing		Manufacturing
Standard Oil		Petroleum
NM Electronics		Computer

Old Name	Current Name	Industry
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation		Telecom
Swedish Aeroplane Company		Automobile
Haloid Photographic Company		Computer
Philip Morris		Food
Andersen Consulting		Consulting
Cadabra.com		Internet
Digital (DEC)		Computer
Blackwater		Military
Cingular		Telecom
Macromedia		Computer
NationsBank		Banking

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Renamed Companies Quiz

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Published: December 27th, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 51,849

Tags: Company Quizzes, current, industry, renamed, called, old, used

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	Klingsta:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 04:37 GMT	3 points
	Very cool.

	DudeMeister4:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT	3 points
	From Pemberton to Coca-Cola. Probably the best decision that company ever made. That and making Sprite...

	MRL:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 04:52 GMT	35 points
	Adobe was never called Macromedia. Adobe was an established and successful company before they bought Macromedia, a separate company.

	ESK:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT	25 points
	@MRL: Yeah, and I think the same can be said for AT&T and Cingular. Acquisition/consolidation doesn't really mean a company 'used to be called' something else. Fun quiz, though!

	llewdor:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT	4 points
	@ MRL & ESK: Read the fourth point in the quiz description. Acquisitions count.

	llewdor:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:17 GMT	16 points
	I object to the Standard Oil answer, or rather the lack of alternates. Standard Oil was broken up by the US government in 1911, and its successor companies are now held by or named ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Unilever. According to the quiz's instructions, any of those should work.

	DTNelson:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:21 GMT	23 points
	The answers "Chevron" and "BP" should be acceptable for Standard Oil. The government-forced breakup of Standard Oil in 1908 created a new company around each of Standard Oil's major refineries; Standard Oil of California became Chevron, and Standard Oil of Indiana became Amoco and Standard Oil of Ohio became Sohio, both of which were acquired by BP. (Standard Oil of New Jersey became Exxon. Standard Oil of New York became Socony and later Mobil, which was acquired by Exxon.)

	Clayterman:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:28 GMT	7 points
	Wow DTNelson, that was incredibly informative.

	Eliot:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:42 GMT	3 points
	on the quiz page, the company category for Caterpillar should read "manufacturing" (instead of the 12-letter word that appears there as of 9:41 GMT on 27 Dec.)

	mrgenova:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 06:38 GMT	8 points
	DEC merged with Compaq which was later acquired by HP; wouldn't say that HP used to be called DEC, acquisition or not.

	IHateRegistering:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 06:47 GMT	10 points
	A change from Blackwater to Xe. And according to them it has no meaning and took over a year to come up with. What a bunch of idiots.

	LaStic:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 11:07 GMT	2 points
	Xe. Good for a-z Sporcle games

	kat_ams:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 12:44 GMT	5 points
	The SAAB one is kind of silly since SAAB still means Swedish Aeroplane Manufacturing Company. SAAB is just an acronym for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (Swedish Aeroplane Corporation). Plus SAAB still builds airplanes like the SAAB 2000 (fastest turboprop on the market). The automotive task was purchased by GM in 1990.

	Megatron:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 14:06 GMT	2 points
	SEGA was "SErvice GAmes".

	yankeefan323:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 14:24 GMT	3 points
	got 0% i suck

	geowiz85:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 15:30 GMT	1 point
	i am so sick of this jiminy cricket spamming all the comment boards with his stupid quizzes!

	johnlk:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 16:29 GMT	4 points
	Cingular was never an independent company, nor is Cingular now AT&T - Cingular just became the wireless component of AT&T. SBC is the company that became AT&T after buying the old AT&T.

	johnlk:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 16:30 GMT	1 point
	I'm also not sure how Standard Oil became BP. BP bought Amoco, which was one of the companies Standard Oil was broken into, but it was never part of Standard Oil itself.

Old Name	Current Name	Industry
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation		Telecom
Swedish Aeroplane Company		Automobile
Haloid Photographic Company		Computer
Philip Morris		Food
Andersen Consulting		Consulting
Cadabra.com		Internet
Digital (DEC)		Computer
Blackwater		Military
Cingular		Telecom
Macromedia		Computer
NationsBank		Banking

	flinchreel:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 18:42 GMT	-2 points
	maybe ATA should be acceptable for airtran? idk

	Cat_Girl:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 18:56 GMT	0 points
	Maybe Esso would have been a better clue for Exxon, as that was the brand name before it was changed to Exxon. Agree about Cingular--AT&T has been around forever, the original Ma Bell, and Cingular was a relatively new product, at that.

	Miana90:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 19:41 GMT	1 point
	I now know what Nabisco stands for..

	kagomeshuko:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 22:58 GMT	-1 points
	Good quiz. Quite difficult. @Mlana90 Really, you didn't know that? Wow!

	nymous:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 23:12 GMT	-2 points
	Actually this is a serious PR issue. My friend at Goldman Sachs is saying people are real upset with them lately and they're going for a downgrade as well, starting January they'll be Silverman Sachs. JP Moron fortunately don't have this problem.

	Eliot:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:29 GMT	1 point
	@ Miana90: You can take a tour of their former factory in Manhattan; 9th Ave. and 15th Street. You'll find out much more than you wanted to know! Some of the old factory fixtures are still in view. Also, the Food Network broadcasts from that building. Fitting.

	elnok:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 13:22 GMT	1 point
	Bank of America / NationsBank is the same deal as many of these others: Nationsbank bought Bank of America, but kept the better name. So while, yeah, what used to be NationsBank is now B of A, what is now B of A did not necessarily used to be NationsBank. Kinda wishy-washy...

	Beefy:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	1 point
	nabisco and coleco weren't renamed, those are the first two letters of each word

	happyleper:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 01:17 GMT	1 point
	"maybe ATA should be acceptable for airtran?" ATA and AirTran aren't the same airline.

	Iron_City_Chuck:	Dec 31st, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	1 point
	great quiz...you gave enough time and had great questions

	Jatzel:	Jan 1st, 2010 at 03:34 GMT	1 point
	Did Gulf&Western become Viacom? or was it a buy out?

	chillyjax:	Jul 8th, 2010 at 03:41 GMT	1 point
	Bank of America was a merger with National Bank. B. of A. was Bank of Italy originally. But good quiz!

	jjarms28:	Mar 15th, 2011 at 02:29 GMT	1 point
	Never new what these companies used to be called

	Beatlezfann:	May 7th, 2011 at 20:48 GMT	1 point
	another one is how "Mama Angela's tomato stained-manila envelopes" became "dominio's pizza"

	DCmetrogreen:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 02:56 GMT	1 point
	Since AirTran was bought out by Southwest Airlines, maybe you should replace it. A suggestion: US Airways was once Allegheny Airlines.

	treewalker:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 02:04 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz. Coke used to sell Medicine, or is that just the name?

	Gusgus:	Sep 2nd, 2011 at 18:08 GMT	1 point
	@treewalker, coke used to BE medicine, when it first came out it had traces of cocaine in it and was considered to have medicinal uses. @others complaining about how some companies didn't used to be called x, consider it the other way. Don't say At&t was never called cingular, say what was once called cingular is now called AT&T, when you put it in that perspective, almost all the complaints become unjustified...