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[FurryFeet]

can anybody tell me what B&Q,Tesco and Texaco stand for?

[HGKinsey]

B & Q = intials of its founders Block and Quayle.

Texaco = originally called The Texas Company, then became known as Texaco, an amalgamation of the words Texas and Company.

[chef]

Tesco's was part of Jack COhen's surname & http://tesco-stores.jobs.cz/en/his.html

Esso - though you didn't ask comes from Standard Oil

[standing]

Further to the Jack Cohen answer - another of the founders was SomebodyTesman so they just took both their names and shortened them... I had to sit through a history of tesco vid when i started working there at uni... yawn.. came in handy though ; )