Crossword Clue:

Automaker that started as a bicycle company

AnswerCrossword Clue
KIAAutomaker that started as a bicycle company
AGFACompany that started as Aktiengesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation (whew ...)
OREOCookie that started as a Hydrox knockoff
DENNYSRestaurant chain that started as a donut shop
PHISHGroup that started as a Grateful Dead cover band
MOBILCompany that uses Pegasus as a symbol
DUPONTCompany that began as a gunpowder manufacturer in 1802
BMWCompany that shouldn't hire Mercedes Ruehl as a celebrity endorser
XEROXCompany that fights use of its name as a verb
EISNERExec who ran a company that had the same internal letters as his last name