{"id":19408,"date":"2026-06-11T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=19408"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:46:37","slug":"millions-used-this-famous-brand-for-decades-then-they-learned-what-the-name-actually-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=19408","title":{"rendered":"Millions Used This Famous Brand for Decades\u2014Then They Learned What the Name Actually Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most people know the Durex name but few know what it actually means.<\/strong> Many assume it\u2019s a made-up marketing term, but Durex is an acronym for <strong>Durability, Reliability, and Excellence<\/strong>\u2014the three principles the company was founded on.<\/p>\n<p>The brand traces its roots to the <strong>London Rubber Company<\/strong>, founded in 1915, which adopted the Durex trademark in 1929. Over the years, Durex became one of the world\u2019s most recognized sexual wellness brands through innovation, quality control, and safer-sex education.<\/p>\n<p>The recent discovery of the name\u2019s meaning surprised many people online, proving that even the most familiar brands can have hidden stories. After nearly a century, the values of <strong>Durability, Reliability, and Excellence<\/strong> remain at the heart of the Durex name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Most people know the Durex name but few know what it actually means. Many assume it\u2019s a made-up marketing term, but Durex is an acronym <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=19408\" title=\"Millions Used This Famous Brand for Decades\u2014Then They Learned What the Name Actually Means\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19410,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions\/19410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}