Horton's, dropping the apostrophe, to preclude legal action in Quebec where businesses are obliged to use French language names. Thomas Nationwide Transport and TNT Express – Thomas Nationwide Transport, an Australian company which was acquired by the Dutch postal company in 1996. The postal company renamed itself TNT N.V. in 2005. In 2011, TNT N.V. demerged; the express delivery company took the name TNT Express while the postal company renamed itself PostNL. Toshiba – named from the merger of consumer goods company Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and electrical firm Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works). Toyota – from the name of the founder, Sakichi Toyoda. Initially called Toyeda, it was changed after a contest for a better-sounding name. The new name was written in katakana with eight strokes, a number that is considered lucky in Japan. Trader Joe's – named after the grocery store's founder, Joe Coulombe Trillium – the result of mishearing the suggestion of the name "Trillian" (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) as "trillium", the name of a flower, and deciding they liked the sound and symbolism of that Troller – Brazilian adaptation of the English word Troll, which refers to a character of the Scandinavian legends that dwells forests and caves of Norway. Tronc – In 2016, US-based media corporation Tribune Publishing changed its name to Tronc – short for Tribune online content. In 2018, the company changed it back. Triang – operating name for Lines Bros Ltd, which was founded by William, Walter and Arthur Edwin Lines. Three Lines make a triangle TSMC – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, an independent chip foundry founded in Taiwan in 1987. Tucows – acronym for The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software. Tungsram – derived from Tungsten + Wolfram, two variations of the name of the main raw material of the lamp production. TVR – derived from the first name of the company founder TreVoR Wilkinson TWA – derived from Trans World Airlines. Before the airline opened up its first international route from New York to Paris in the 1950s, it was a domestic operation that focused on serving Los Angeles and San Francisco from New York, operating under the name Transcontinental and Western Air. Keeping the initials and rebranding as a global airline was a stroke of marketing continuity genius. Twinings – named after founder Thomas Twining, who set up a tea-shop on the Strand in London in