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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
- 1Pizza Hutbrand hq · United States
He invented it in the 1980s and Pizza Hut stole it.
Open this place → - 2Fordbrand hq · USA
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 → - 3British Airwaysbrand hq · United 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 → - 4NandoUnited Kingdom
There was a terrific piece in the Guardian recently about Nando's collection of modern South African art.
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- 6De BeersSouth Africa
De Beers use a giant vacuum cleaner to get diamonds from the bottom of the sea.
Open this place → - 7St. 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 → - 8JaguarUnited 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 → - 9KelloggUnited States
Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Kellogg's Company was founded, invented and named after his brother.
Open this place → - 10WalmartUnited 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 → - 11NokiaFinland
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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- 13Red BullAustria
Red Bull got sued in 2014 for the fact that they don't actually give you wings.
Open this place → - 14KodakUnited 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 → - 15FerrariItaly
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 → - 16General MotorsUnited States
General Motors make artificial stalactites out of their car byproducts for bats to cling on to.
Open this place → - 17Earl of SandwichUnited Kingdom
I'd really like to quickly say a word about the Earl of Sandwich because I love him.
Open this place → - 18Kentucky Fried ChickenUnited States
Kentucky Fried Chicken brought us moist towelettes.
Open this place → - 19Hard Rock CafeUnited States
There's another waitress from the Hard Rock Cafe called Delia Lees, who worked there for 48 years.
Open this place → - 20SteinwayUnited States
The history of Steinway during the war is so mad, because Steinway was a German-American company.
Open this place → - 21HarrodsUnited Kingdom
You could buy heroin in Harrods, I think, to send to troops on the front line during the First World War.
Open this place → - 22WaterstonesUnited Kingdom
Waterstones have actually decided to make it the thriller of the month.
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- 24CadburyUnited Kingdom
Cadbury, that was the thing that started chocolate off basically in terms of this big global Willy Wonka-esque world.
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