Regional Business Names

[Doctor Steuss]

Smac's thread on public funds had me notice that there are an insane number of businesses in Utah that use "Deseret" in their business name.  It got me thinking, are there other common regional business names?  I can't think of any here in Vegas, but I was wondering if anyone else has ever noticed common word(s) in businesses in their city/state/country?

[bluebell]

2 hours ago, Doctor Steuss said:

Smac's thread on public funds had me notice that there are an insane number of businesses in Utah that use "Deseret" in their business name.  It got me thinking, are there other common regional business names?  I can't think of any here in Vegas, but I was wondering if anyone else has ever noticed common word(s) in businesses in their city/state/country?

It seems like Wyoming has a lot of businesses with the word “Enterprises” in it.

Utah also has a lot of businesses with the word “salt” in the name. 

[Calm]

Zion….
 

My town is called Mapleton and there are a lot of businesses with Maple in their names.  But lots of the neighborhoods are “Maple ____” as well, so that may come first.

Edited March 6 by Calm

[Calm]

I would assume state birds or animals contribute to a lot of business names.

Patriotic words are common as well.

[Doctor Steuss]

Now that I'm paying a bit more attention, I did notice yesterday quite a few businesses with "Silver State" in their name.

 

[Calm]

San Franciso area used to have a few “golden gate” iirc…but my memory ain’t great so I can guarantee it.  Maybe it was just used somewhere in the commercials.  Golden State of course.

Great Western in quite a few names iirc.

Edited March 6 by Calm

[Calm]

56 minutes ago, Doctor Steuss said:

Now that I'm paying a bit more attention, I did notice yesterday quite a few businesses with "Silver State" in their name.

 

Which makes me think of Beehive.  As in Beehive Books where I used to work (not in Utah, Calgary, but church related, top end probably of Mormon Corridor, but might go further north).

Edited March 6 by Calm

[Stargazer]

On 3/5/2025 at 8:10 PM, Doctor Steuss said:

Smac's thread on public funds had me notice that there are an insane number of businesses in Utah that use "Deseret" in their business name.  It got me thinking, are there other common regional business names?  I can't think of any here in Vegas, but I was wondering if anyone else has ever noticed common word(s) in businesses in their city/state/country?

Washington state (the "Evergreen State") has a very large number of businesses with "Evergreen" in their business name. I went to the Washington state Secretary of State website and did a search. There were over 3,600 business entities with that word in them.