Many brands born and raised in Turkey and opened to the world take their name from their founder or founders. But these abbreviations are for many of us. can be misleading and we may even think that these brands are of foreign origin.

Sometimes we assign meanings to brand names in our own way, We make extensions.

For example, as in YKM…

In fact, YKM stands for YKM, with various attributions being made over a period of time. ‘New Karamursel stores’ however, many people have not been able to accept this opening.

Again, another gap we couldn’t fit is from Mado.

If you want to sit outside with your friends and have a good time, Mado can be one of your best choices. Basically Mado’s expansion ‘Marash ice cream shop’ If you have a friend who doesn’t know it is, you can show some air with this information.

Moving on to another brand confused with Mado because of the name similarity: Mudo.

Mudo, named after the founders From the first two letters of the names of Mustafa Taviloğlu and Doğan Gürün take.

Akbank’s name story is also quite interesting.

Akbank’s name ‘The people of Kayseri who live in Adana’it comes from. “What’s going on now?” For those of you saying, let’s explain right away. The founders of Akbank were businessmen from Kayseri who lived in Adana.

The partners who found a great common point across the two provinces; Decided to transfer these characteristics to the name of the company that founded them The initials of the provinces ‘Adana’ and ‘Kayseri’ They added it to the beginning of the word ‘bank’, which means ‘couch’ in English.

When you heard the name DYO as a child, you probably thought it was a foreign brand.

However DYO name, founders of the company Durmus Yexceeds and HE IScomes from his sons. Durmuş Yaşar has been in the management of Yaşar Holding along with his sons for many years.

We all know NTV, but many of us don’t know the meaning of the name.

Cavit Çağlar was inspired by his daughter’s name when setting up the channel. Daffodil TV in other words, NTV, as we know it, came to life.

Alfemo, one of the pioneers of the furniture industry, seems like a foreign brand, doesn’t it?

Well alpha ‘Ali Feyzullah Furniture’ formed by abbreviations of words.

We continue with another brand named after the founder: DİMES.

Named after its founder, Mustafa Vasfi Diren. ‘Resistance Fruit juices’ Today it has gained a great reputation as DİMES.

We almost all know this, but let’s recall the expansion of ENKA.

The founders, Şarık Tara and Sadi Gülçelik, are brother-in-law and brother-in-law. For this reason, ENKA, founded by the duo, a combination of the words ‘brother-in-law’ and ‘brother-in-law’ was created.

We came to Yu-Ma-Tu, which for a long time we all thought was foreign, even Asian.

Yu-Ma-Tu, which has caused confusion in the electronics industry and is often thought to be a Japanese company, actually gave its name. One of the first syllables of the Yusuf brothers, Mahmut, Tuncer take.

Ramsey is actually not a foreign brand.

Ramsey, one of the first brands that comes to mind when it comes to menswear, may seem like a foreign brand, but it’s not. Founder of the brand Remzi Gür describes Ramsey, whose English pronunciation is similar to his own name. adopted as a brand name.

“This is definitely foreign!” you can say another brand: Osse.

Osse, one of the pioneers of the eyewear industry, is, contrary to popular belief, a Turkish brand. Even the name of the co-founders One of the first syllables of Osman and Sezai coming.

Rodimood’s name is also given to the founders.

Although it seems like a foreign brand, RodiMood is actually a Turkish clothing brand. If the word Rodi is in the name of RodiMood From ‘Ramadanoğulları Sewing Management’ coming.

Let’s remember where the name Banvit came from…

Brand name extension ‘Bandırma Vitamin Feed Industry’ It clearly states the place where the company was incorporated and the purpose of its establishment.

We move on to a brand with a very humorous story: Happy Moon’s.

Hussein, the owner of the restaurant Aymutluchose to use the roughly translated version of his surname as the brand name.

It is quite easy to guess where Beymen’s name comes from.

In the first years of its establishment, Beymen only produced clothing for men. Since the target group is men, ‘Gentleman’ so that the word and the brand are remembered worldwide. ‘Gentlemen’ The brand name was created by combining the words.