Interesting business facts

  • If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
  • In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack’s.
  • The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
  • The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
  • In 1987, American Airlines decided to omit one olive from each salad course in the first class. As a result, they made a savings of $40,000.
  • 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day
  • The highest publicly reported amount of money paid for a domain name is $7.5 million! Paid for business.com.
  • English is spoken by just 35% of internet users. If your web site is English only, you lose 65% of potential visitors!
  • The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
  • More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world
  • The YKK that you see on zippers stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha which is the name of the founder of the zipper manufacturing company in Japan.
  • Staff cost is usually the biggest expense in a hospitality business.
  • ‘Coca-Cola’ is the most recognised trademark, recognised by 94% of the world’s population and is the most widely recognised word after “OK”.
  • In its first year, servings of ‘Coca-Cola’ amounted to less than 10 a day. Today one billion servings are consumed every day!
  • The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.
  • In the United States and in Canada the Volkswagen Golf is known as the Volkswagen Rabbit while in Mexico it is known as the Volkswagen Caribe.
  • Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.

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