{"id":6859,"date":"2010-12-06T19:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-06T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T19:12:18","slug":"How-15-of-the-world-s-top-brands-got-started-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6859","title":{"rendered":"How 15 of the world&#8217;s top brands got started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How 15 of the world&#8217;s top brands got started<br \/>\n<strong>Humble beginnings are a common theme in the origins of these titans<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NIke <\/p>\n<p>Amercian Express <\/p>\n<p>H&#038;M <\/p>\n<p><strong>Samsung <\/p>\n<p>Marlboro<\/p>\n<p>Louis Vuitton <\/p>\n<p>Cisco <\/p>\n<p>Gillette <\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz <\/p>\n<p>Toyota <\/p>\n<p>Disney <\/p>\n<p><strong>Nokia<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nMcDonald&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p>General Electric<br \/>\n<strong>In 1876, Thomas Edison opened up a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey (now Edison, NJ) where he earned the nickname, \u201cThe Wizard of Menlo Park\u201d. There he proceeded to invent the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion picture camera, a mechanical vote counter, an alkaline storage battery, and over 1,000 other inventions. To sell his inventions he established a company in 1890 and called it the Edison General Electric company.  <strong><em>Thomas Edison was even partially deaf!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The McDonald Brothers were senior citizens and Thomas Edison was hearing impaired.  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