• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    10 months ago

    See also:

    • Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater (mercenary group owned by right-wing politicians)
    • Altria, née Philip Morris (tobacco manufacturer)
    • CoreCivic, née Corrections Corporation of America (private prison operator)
    • Chiquita, née United Fruit Company and Cuyamel Fruit Company (overthrew the government of Honduras, among other things)
    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
      13·
      10 months ago

      Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.

      Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Also add Blackwater to this list.

        They’ve changed names so many times I guess you missed that it was already there:

        • Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater
    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      9 months ago

      Kinda shocked that the most hated company on Lemmy (Nеstlé) hasn’t tried their luck at this game yet

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I guess Nestlé isn’t hated enough by the general public yet. We need to step up our game.