Corporate Name Changes

Puck tapped the former Twitter executive Sarah Personette as chief executive officer of the news startup, where she will be tasked with shepherding its expansion into new coverage areas and markets.The two-year-old publication, whose writers focus on covering power brokers in tech, media, finance and politics, has amassed around 40,000 full-paying subscribers and surpassed $10 million in revenue in 2023, according to a person close to the company. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Henry Blodget, one of the early pioneers of digital media, is stepping down as chief executive of Insider, a publication he co-founded more than 15 years ago. The move comes as Insider, now a unit of German publishing giant Axel Springer, is changing its name back to Business Insider as part of an effort to focus on business and technology news instead of trying to be a generalist publication. The change, effective Tuesday, is happening less than three years after the publication had shortened its name to…

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A group of shareholders is suing Adidas AG , alleging the sportswear company failed to warn investors it was aware of Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks and “extreme behavior.”  The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon on Friday, alleges former CEO Kasper Rorsted and Harm Ohlmeyer, the company’s chief financial officer, were involved in disseminating false and misleading statements about Adidas’s relationship with Mr. West, who legally changed his name to Ye.…

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Sweetgreen Inc. said it changed the name to ‘continue serving our guests without distraction.’ Photo: Taidgh Barron/Zuma Press…

By combining the “Kell,” from Kellogg, with “anova,” which incorporates the Latin word “nova,” meaning new, the name reflects the company’s past and its future, according to Kellogg.  Kellanova joins a growing roster of Latin-inspired names—GE Vernova, Mondelez, Altria—that companies have devised as they seek to reintroduce consumers to their products and services. General Electric Co. borrowed from Latin last year when it announced the name of its power business: GE Vernova. A…

AmerisourceBergen Corp. plans to change its name to Cencora to reflect its aim to expand outside the U.S. and beyond drug distribution. The company, among the largest distributors of medicines and other healthcare products in the U.S., with $239 billion in revenue last fiscal year, said Tuesday it expects to begin using the new name in the second half of this year. “As a global company, the name AmerisourceBergen was becoming less and less…

As U.S.-China ties fray and decoupling trends rise, dozens of Chinese startups are going against the tide, seeking ways to expand into the U.S. and other international markets. But to avoid the kind of backlash as they expand that short-video app TikTok especially has faced, they are moving their headquarters out of China or creating a separate entity in countries such as the city-island state of Singapore. Some are also renaming themselves and dropping references to their China roots, or developing separate…

The metaverse is struggling to live up to the megahype.The concept blasted off when Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc. and announced a new focus for its business: building an immersive, virtual-reality metaverse called Horizon Worlds. Like other metaverse products, the idea is to create an online community where users can interact in avatar form, hanging out, playing games, working, shopping and performing other activities. But now, roughly a year…