partner A. Lidl, but legal reasons prevented it. Schwarz did not want to name the company after himself as Schwarzmarkt means "black market" in German. Lionbridge – "localisation", which is the service this company offers, is often shortened to L10N. That is the first letter of the word and the last letter of the word, with 10 letters missing in between, hence L 10 N, which looks like lion. Bridge is the second part of the word as translation 'bridges' gap between people and markets that do not have a common language. Lionhead Studios – games studio named after Mark Webley's pet hamster, which died a week before the company was founded Webley worked for Bullfrog, and co-founded Lionhead with Peter Molyneux, Tim Rance and Steve Jackson in July 1997. Microsoft bought the company in April 2006. Loblaws – Canadian supermarket chain named for founder Theodore Loblaw Lockheed Martin – aerospace and defense company, a combination of Lockheed Corporation named after its co-founder Allan Lockheed, and Martin Marietta, which was formed through the merger of Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation, named for Marietta, Ohio. LoJack – "LoJack" (the stolen-vehicle recovery system) is a pun on the word "hijack" (to steal a vehicle). Longines – in 1862 the new company "Ancienne Maison Auguste Agassiz, Ernest Francillon, Successeur" was born. At that time watchmaking in the area used the skills of people working outside the "comptoir d'établissage", often at home. In 1866 Ernest Francillon bought two plots of land on the right bank of the river Suze at the place called "Les Longines" and brought all of the watchmaking skills under one roof. This was the first "Longines factory". Lonsdale – boxing equipment manufacturer named after the Lonsdale Belt, a boxing trophy donated by the English Lord Lonsdale. Loral – from the beginnings of the surnames of the cofounders, William Lorenz and Leon Alpert L'Oréal – in 1907, Eugène Schueller, a young French chemist, developed an innovative hair-color formula. He called his improved hair dye Auréole. LOT – LOT Polish Airlines. "Lot" in Polish means "flight". Lotus Software – Mitch Kapor named his company after the Lotus Position or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. LTV – initialism for Ling-Temco-Vought. James Ling founded Ling Electric Company in 1947. It merged with Temco Aircraft in 1960 and acquired Chance Vought