26 interesting facts about business

  1. 7-eleven sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
  2. 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.
  3. 90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
  4. 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
  5. Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
  6. Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
  7. Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
  8. If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
  9. Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
  10. In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.
  11. In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted "raw horse flesh" ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!
  12. Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
  13. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10.
  14. Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
  15. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
  16. Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!
  17. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
  18. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
  19. The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
  20. The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
  21. There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
  22. The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
  23. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
  24. Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
  25. Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
  26. When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
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