Coming up with the name for a company is one of the easiest aspects of business ownership — or is it?
Sure, there are plenty of people who go with the tried-and-true tactic of using the founders’ surnames — Disney, Lipton, Gillette and Anheuser-Busch come to mind — but sometimes entrepreneurs want to be a little more creative. Take the owners of Business Lexington’s parent company, for example. Chuck Creacy and Chris Eddie named Smiley Pete Publishing after a nomadic Lexington dog of the 1940s named Smiley Pete. Here are four other stories of how Central Kentucky business names came to be.
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