Old and new (or new and old...)

Old(er) names of some contemporary companies. Presented here for fun, and sometimes as a bad memory...lest we don't forget...

Dole
Used to be Hawaiian Pineapple Company and Standard Fruit Company

Chiquita
Used to be United Fruit Company. (Yeah THAT United Fruit Company...) and was later known as United Brand Company

Altria
Used to be Philip Morris Companies Inc. (They are still a cigarette maker...don't be fooled by "Altria"...)

Starbucks Corporation
Used to be Starbucks Coffee, Tea and Spice and Il Giornale Coffee Company

ValueJet
Used to be Airtran

LG
Used to be Lucky Goldstar

Nissan
Used to be Datsun

Pepsi Cola
Used to be Brad's Drink

International Business Machines (IBM)
Used to be Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation

Nintendo
Used to be Marafuku Company
Before that it was known as Nintendo Playing Card Company

Google
Used to be BackRub (no, seriously...)

Yahoo (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle)
Used to be Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web