* Accenture – from “Accent on the future”. The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming).
* Adecco – named from the merger of Swiss staffing company Adia with French staffing company Ecco.
* Adidas – from the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
* Adobe Systems – from the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock.
* AltaVista – Spanish for “high view”.
