57 Fascinating Business Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

1. Ben & Jerry’s is owned by Unilever.
2. Wal-Mart averages a profit of $1.8 million every hour.
3. “Yahoo” is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
4. Starbucks’ round tables were created specifically so customers would feel less alone.
5. Apple’s iPad retina display is actually manufactured by Samsung.
6. Dasani water is just purified tap water; it doesn’t come from a natural spring.
7. One in 10 Europeans are conceived in an Ikea bed.
8. Marvel Comics once owned the rights to the word “zombie.”
9. The red and white Coca-Cola logo is recognized by 94% of the world’s population.
10. The iPad 2 would cost $1,140 if it were made in America.
11. Taco Bell has proved to be a huge flop in Mexico, as Mexicans were confused by the Americanization of their traditional cuisine.
12. Adding /4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will take you to Mark Zuckerberg’s profile.
13. Cereal is the second-largest advertiser on television today, behind automobiles.
14. Google was originally called BackRub.
15. Pepsi got its name from the digestive enzyme pepsin.
16. U.S. corporations are reportedly hiding $1.6 trillion in profits offshore.
17. Amazon.com employees spend two days every two years working at the customer service desk — even the CEO — in order to help all workers understand the customer service process.
18. Speaking of Amazon, it also owns Zappos, ShopBop, Goodreads, and Audible.com
19. Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed, and stored.
20. Candy Crush brings in a reported $633,000 a day in revenue.
21. Samsung accounts for 20% of Korea’s gross domestic product.
22. Burt’s Bees is owned by Clorox.
23. The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
24. Warner Music owns the copyrights to “Happy Birthday,” so it’s technically owed royalties every time you sing it to someone on their big day.
25. Changing the U.S. $1 bill for a $1 coin would save the U.S. $4.4 billion in 30 years.
26. The “new car smell” is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds.
27. If Bill Gates were a country, he’d be the 37th richest on earth.
28. Sixty-four percent of consumers have made a purchase decision based on social media content.
29. McDonald’s first menu items were hot dogs, not hamburgers.
30. The actor who played the “Marlboro man” died of lung cancer.
31. More people in the world have mobile phones than toilets.
32. Starbucks spends more on health care insurance for its employees ($300 million) than on coffee beans.
33. If you have $10 in your pocket and no debts, you are wealthier than 25% of Americans.
34. Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness.
35. Apple had a third founder, Ronald Wayne, who had a 10% stake in the company. He left the fledgling company after 12 days and forfeited his shares for $2,300 (about $9,600 today).
36. Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning.
37. Seventy percent of small businesses are owned and operated by a single person.
38. Each week nearly one-third of the U.S. population visits a Walmart.
39. Victoria’s Secret is the most followed retailer on Instagram.
40. In iPhone ads, the time is always 9:42 a.m. or 9:41 a.m., because Apple events start at 9 a.m. and big product reveals generally happen 40 minutes into the presentation.
41. The Rubik’s cube is the best-selling product of all time. The iPhone is second.
42. Steve Jobs is credited as an executive producer on Toy Story.
43. One in eight American workers have been employed by McDonald’s.
44. In 2000, Coca-Cola launched a stealth campaign against water called “Just say no to H2O.”
45. The Volkswagen group owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche.
46. Smoking near an Apple computer voids the warranty.
47. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo used to work as an improv comedian, including a stint at the legendary Second City in Chicago.
48. YouTube broadcasts about one-third of the U.S.’s multimedia entertainment.
49. The world’s 100 richest people earned enough money in 2012 to end global poverty four times over.
50. The average smartphone user checks Facebook 14 times a day.
51. More than 80 million “mouse ears” have been sold at Walt Disney World to date.
52. The Asia Tiger Funds’ stock symbol is GRR.
53. Gambling generates more revenue than movies, spectator sports, theme parks, cruise ships, and recorded music combined.
54. You can purchase large sheets of uncut U.S. currency through the mail.
55. Tom’s of Maine is owned by Colgate-Palmolive.
56. The “Mayfair” filter in Instagram generates the most likes.
57. A customer in a wheelchair successfully sued Chipotle in 2010, claiming its tall ordering counter denied him from seeing the “Chipotle experience.”

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