Interesting Facts

According to a survey conducted by Sunshine.co.uk, 55% of Brits on holiday abroad seek out British home comforts. (The things that they admitted to specifically looking out for included:- - Restaurants serving British food – 37% - British bars – 25% - UK TV channels – 21% - British stores – 17% - British Brands – 12% I can understand UK TV channels, and for British Brands, maybe the odd packet of Rich Tea biscuits, or Tetley tea bags, but the rest is a mystery to me.) Source

Coca-Cola is the most popular grocery product in the UK. (  It tops t he UK's list of top 10 grocery brands w ith sales of £1,014m, up £74.3m on 2011.  The next most popular brands were Warburtons, Walkers Crisps, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Hovis, Kingsmill, Nescafé, Lucozade, Andrex and for the first time Pepsi.  So, soft drinks, crisps, chocolate, coffee, bread and toilet paper.  No wonder we are topping the obesity tables in Europe. )

Leonardo Da Vinci has been credited with inventing the designer handbag. (It's believed he drew a sketch of an ornate leather accessory in 1497 while he was painting The Last Supper. Now a luxury Italian brand, Gherardini, has decided to manufacture a bag based on Leonardo's design - more than five centuries after his death. I guess the copyright has run out by now.) One for  +april sis .  

According to Interbrand's Best Global Brands index the following companies are the top ten brands in the world, the valuation is simply for the brand name, not the company:- Coca-Cola $70,452m IBM $64,727m Microsoft $60,895m Google $43,557m GE $47,777m McDonald's $33,578m Intel $32,015m Nokia $29,495m Disney $28,731m Hewlett Packard $26,867m (Unfortunately there are no UK companies in the top 30, although we do have six brands in the top 100.) Source: The Independent

According to pollsters the Superbrands Council, Google is the brand Brits like the best. (The popular search engine took the top spot, and Microsoft came in second. Third on the list was Mercedes-Benz, followed by the BBC at number four. The fifth favourite brand was British Airways. Foods and supermarkets were quite low down, Coca-Cola at No 14, and Cadbury at 19th. Of course they probably didn't ask the residents of Broughton in Buckinghamshire, who recently spotted Google's Street View car entering their village, when they saw the camera-equipped vehicle a small mob gathered, and they forced the vehicle into a u-turn before it left the village. Seemingly they were worried about being burgled if people online saw their affluence.)