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In business[link]

A trade name, also known as a trading name or a business name, is the name which a business trades under for commercial purposes, although its registered, legal name, used for contracts and other formal situations, may be another.

As an example, the company Panda Chemical Manufacturers, Inc. may use the more friendly name Panda Pharmaceuticals when it holds itself out to the public. In this example, Panda Pharmaceuticals is the trade name.

In pharmaceutics[link]

Some segments of the pharmaceutical and chemical industry use the phrase "trade name" for a completely different purpose: to mean "product or brand name." This practice over the last decade seems to have lessened but still does persist.

See also[link]

• Doing business as
• Brand

References[link]

External links[link]

• Two documents which discuss why governments like to keep track of businesses' trade names:
  • Registering Your Business Name.
  • Berg Metals Corp. v. Wilson, 339 P.2d 869, 574 (Cal.App.2d 1959). See [19a]–[22].

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Trade Martin is an American musician, songwriter, and producer.

Martin worked with Johnny Power in the late 1950s, recording as Johnny & the Jokers and together launching the label Rome Records, active from 1960 to 1962. The label signed the groups The Earls, Del & the Escorts, and The Glens. On many of these recordings, Martin played all of the backing instruments, overdubbing them track by track.^[1] Martin also released some solo material on Coed Records, including the 1962 hit "That Stranger Used to Be My Girl", a #28 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962.^[2] He released several further singles on Roulette Records and other labels in the 1960s and an LP entitled Let Me Touch You on Buddah Records in 1972.

Martin spent nearly thirty years in production and arrangement, doing work from the '60s girl group era through to 1980s pop. Among his credits are songs by Eric Andersen, Ellie Greenwich, Lesley Gore, The Tokens, Ian & Sylvia, Rick Nelson, B.T. Express, Pam Russo, and Solomon Burke. He also wrote a number of songs covered by noted acts, including "Take Me for a Little While" (Dusty Springfield), "Peace to the World" (B. B. King), and "Don't You Double Cross Me" (Dave Edmunds).

Martin wrote several film scores. Credits include Stormy Monday, The Inkwell, It's My Party, and West New York.^[3]

Released in August 2010,^[4] Martin's single, "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero" was recognized as "the worst song in the history of recorded music" at Fark.^[5][6]

In January 2011, rights-management firm Beach Road Music, LLC, content-owner of the Coed Records' catalog, re-released a digitally re-mastered version of Martin's 1964 Coed single "Liverpool Baby" on the compilation album From The Vault: The Coed Records Lost Master Tapes, Volume 1.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Trade Martin Music bio
• Trade Martin at Internet Movie Data Base
• Brennan, Bob (2008). "Trade Martin "Tribute to BB King"". The Reviews Are in. New York Blues and Jazz Society. http://www.nybluesandjazz.org/reviews/tmartin.ht. Retrieved 2012-03-30.