Collections — Corporate HQs & household names
Where the Brands Live
Tupperware, Heinz, Nando's and friends. The show is forever explaining how some everyday product came to be — so here are the companies, pinned to the places they call home.
24 places in this collection
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- 2Royal MailUnited Kingdom
People who work at the Royal Mail say one of the serious problems they have — the sorters who have to sort through the envelopes — is that people don't seal their envelopes.
Open this place → - 3FordUnited States
I was on Ford's website, and they said that there are 3.4 million vans in the UK, and they travel a total of 63 billion miles during 2014.
Open this place → - 4British AirwaysUnited Kingdom
British Airways in 2014 released a little thing called Sound Bites, so the idea would be that the food that you ordered on the plane, you could go into the system, your little entertainment system, and you…
Open this place → - 5TupperwareUnited States
In 1957, she had held a massive Tupperware party on a Florida island for 1,200 people, and there was a torrential thunderstorm which injured 21 people, and that led to lots of lawsuits.
Open this place → - 6Google EarthUnited States
When they were doing a Google Earth survey of it, they discovered a missing bit of the wall, and they discovered a local village nearby who had just obviously come across this wall and gone, well, no one seems…
Open this place → - 7Big MacUnited States
One Big Mac cost 3.75 rubles, and a monthly wage was 150 rubles — that is the equivalent today of a Big Mac costing 52 pounds 78 pence.
Open this place → - 8NandoUnited Kingdom
There was a terrific piece in the Guardian recently about Nando's collection of modern South African art.
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- 10De BeersUnited Kingdom
De Beers use a giant vacuum cleaner to get diamonds from the bottom of the sea.
Open this place → - 11St. James'sUnited Kingdom
The first bowler hats were sold at St James's Street at Locke and Co-Hatters, who've been going since basically the 17th century when they were founded.
Open this place → - 12JaguarUnited Kingdom
During the Monaco Grand Prix in 2004, when Oceans 12 came out, they did a publicity stunt where the Jaguar cars in the race were fitted with a new nose cone, each of which had a diamond worth in excess of…
Open this place → - 13KelloggUnited States
Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Kellogg's Company was founded, invented and named after his brother.
Open this place → - 14WalmartUnited States
The Chinese branch of Walmart had to recall a bunch of five spice donkey meat products in 2014, but that was because they tested them and they were full of fox DNA, which is not a delicacy.
Open this place → - 15Marks & SpencerUnited Kingdom
The modern chicken kiev, with garlic in, was probably invented by a woman called Cathy Chapman in 1979, who was working for Marks and Spencer.
Open this place → - 16NokiaFinland
There was a Nokia executive in 2002 who was fined 116,000 euros for going at about 40 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour speed limit.
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- 18Red BullAustria
Red Bull got sued in 2014 for the fact that they don't actually give you wings.
Open this place → - 19KodakUnited States
Starting decades ago, Kodak had an interest in neutrons, subatomic particles that can be used to determine the makeup of a given material or create an image of it without damaging it.
Open this place → - 20Princeton Consumer ResearchUnited Kingdom
There's a man called Barry Druitt who genuinely works for a firm called Princeton Consumer Research, and he's spent 20 years smelling armpits.
Open this place → - 21FerrariItaly
He was really annoyed with how the clutch worked in one of his Ferraris, and when he pointed it out, the sales team were just really bad with him.
Open this place → - 22CanvaAustralia
Canva and particularly Canva for Teams is a design platform that makes it so easy for you to create visual content in any format.
Open this place → - 23General MotorsUnited States
General Motors make artificial stalactites out of their car byproducts for bats to cling on to.
Open this place → - 24Quaker OatsUnited States
Quaker Oats used corn cobs at the time to get a particular chemical.
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