If today you create only coloring books for children, and somewhere in the most hidden corners of the soul you dream about how your still-untapped masterpieces will be snapped up at the best galleries, do not despair and do not stop - it's a dashing trouble!
We found 18 unexpected examples of the fact that today's multimillion-dollar corporations "did not appear" at all under the circumstances that we think about ...
1. You will not believe, but today you could not know at all, what tastes the sweetest canned corn, because the large French company "Bonduelle" (Bonduelle) planned to produce only alcohol one hundred years ago!
2. Another unexpected news: if now you are holding a Samsung gadget in your hands, then smile - originally it was planned that this company will just sell products!
3. And here the Japanese manufacturer of electronics - SHARP corporation so in general began with that issued mechanical pencils which should not be sharpened!
4. Yes, even the good glorious Lipton actually took the first steps from the opening of an ordinary grocery store!
5. Today, only the lazy did not read the motivating books of Richard Branson - the founder of the Virgin Group, and in fact the world-famous billionaire started as the editor-in-chief of the magazine about the youth culture "Student"!
6. Did you know that one of the world's largest retail chains selling furniture and household goods IKEA initially sold just matches and other cheapest products?
7. Another surprise - the world leader in the market of food and household chemicals Unilever "tried" only in the release of soap and margarine?
8. And now you will have a brainstorm - Nintendo Corporation was originally created with only one purpose - to manufacture and sell hand-held decks of Hanafud (Japanese playing cards).
9. But if the "Sega" did not develop, then its main activities remained - the release of slot machines and photo paper.
10. What do you think is common between Nokia and rubber galoshes? And the fact that many years ago the Finnish telecommunications equipment company was earning money to sell it!
11. And while developing snowmobiles, Bombardier quietly dreamed of the glory of the world's leading aircraft manufacturer!
12. How, you did not know that Hugo Boss produced clothes for Nazi Germany?
13. First of all, the first thing airplanes ... Yes, once the aircraft engines were the main products of the BMW produced!
14. Are you sitting there? Then read - computer company IBM began its activity with the release of tabulators, slicers for cheese and scales!
15. Wow, it turns out and the company Sony did not "thunder" in one day, and long and tediously released some electric rice cookers ...
16. It looks like you are ready for anything ... So, LG Electronics started its journey with the production of powder!
17. But if not for light bulbs and radios, today we would not know about Philips & Co!
18. Well, our control shot - the company Toyota began with the release of ... sewing machines and has not yet ceased to produce them!