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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭IH784man


    A barbers in letterkenny I think called clip around the ears


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,208 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Passed a restaurant in Barcelona a while back calling itself... MY FŪCKING KITCHEN .. which i thought was fair enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭jprboy


    Restaurant in Belfast called Thai Tanic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭newport2


    Arrufat chocolates


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Curl Up and Dye hairdressers....somewhere.
    Everywhere.

    Used to be one in Sligo called Public Hair.

    Also solicitors called Argue and Phibbs.

    http://www.sligotown.net/images/argue-and-phibbs.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭Tsipras


    Amy's Winehouse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    There used to be a website called
    Boob.ie
    "Because they wouldn't let us use Fann.ie"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    All meat based:

    Poultry in Motion
    Angela's Rashers
    Sean O'Connor (some Munster butcher iirc) "Meat to please you, pleased to meet you"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Pyridine


    In Finland all the off-licenses are state owned and they are called...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    jprboy wrote: »
    Restaurant in Belfast called Thai Tanic

    It's amazing how one of the greatest maritime disasters in history is used as a marketing tool up there, Titanic this Titanic that. The findings of the day layed partial blame on the shoddy workmanship conducted by H&W (sister ship Olympic found to be fitted with faulty rivets). It's not something Belfast should be proud of.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    There was a frozen dessert place in California when I did my J1 called 'Humphrey Yogurt'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Dr_Colossus


    Pub in Galway years ago called "M.T. Pockets"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,504 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Cheeses of Nazareth

    Also saw a van last week for Drain Surgeons


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    Have seen two in the English city where I live.

    One is Property Maintenance Services: their van is a big red yoke with 'PMS' on the sides.

    The other is a company called Erection Specialists... They assemble marquees and scaffolding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 42inchchest


    "Stone Mad"- masons😊


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    bpmurray wrote: »
    There were builders near the airport called Leggett - not sure if I would have trusted them.

    Passed a site in the USA a few years ago. The builder's name was Willie Legget


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    www.muffdivingclub.ie

    edit: Seems I`ve been beaten to it. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    There was a computer manufacturer trading up till the 90s. Often saw their vans around Dublin.
    Wang Laboratories.
    Had a short lived marketing campaign with the slogan
    Wang Cares.


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    The first PC we had in our house was a Wang 486 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Bar in America called Tequila Mockingbird


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Company that solely focuses on refrigeration: Just Chillin'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Sell Fridges refrigerator store in Glasgow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    I used to frequent a baguette shop owned by a lady called Barbara. It was called Bab's Baps.

    I saw a builders can in slough, Patel and Sons builders - you've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians.

    I used to buy steel from a company who couldn't be arsed to think of a name, so called it CBA metals.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I felt like giving a standing ovation first time I saw one of the trucks from "Twomey To You Transport"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,905 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Burger joint in the Algarve - Johnny Hates Fish

    Bed shop in Manchester - Bedfellas


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,490 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Big Mickey.

    He sells beds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭matchthis


    Do see a horse van going around Kildare with company name on the side. "only foals and horses" brilliant


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Bird Deterrent company ive seen around Dublin called Flock-off

    can't remember the company name pr if they are still around but a seen drainage companies van on the M50 years ago with the slogan ''your **** is our bread and butter'' on the back


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Someone told me a pet grooming shop opened in some town in Tipp in the 90s called "Doggy Style" but the local clergy forced a name change.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,490 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Scobies Direct.

    They sell equipment to butchers.


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