Q.

1 Although its official headquarter is in Luxembourg, it is in fact run from London, namely: Berkeley Square House, 7th Floor, Berkeley Square, London. Identify this merged entity formed in 2006.

1. Arcelor Mittal

Q.2 X was formed through the merger of Koninklijke Hoogovens and British Steel in 1999. In January 2007, Y purchased a 100% stake in the X Group at 608 pence per share in an all cash deal, cumulatively valued at US$12.04 billion. What is the present name of this group now? 2.TATA STEEL EUROPE ( XCorus, YTata Steel)

Koninklijke Hoogovens
The company briefly merged its IJmuiden steel plant with German steel

company Hoesch from 1972 forming the joint venture Estel but demerged in 1982. In 1999, the company merged with the larger British Steel to create Corus Group steel company. The Alumium production assets were sold off during the Corus period. In 2007, Corus Group was purchased by India-based Tata Steel and was renamed Tata Steel Europe in 2010. The IJmuiden steel works thus now is a part of Tata Steel Europe. Corus Group was formed through the merger of Koninklijke Hoogovens and British Steel on 6

October 1999

British Steel

British Steel PLC was a major

British steel producer. It originated as a nationalisedindustry, the British Steel Corporation (BSC), formed in 1967

Q.3 X is the plural form of the word ______, which means snow in the Finnish language. Identify X which brought together two major companies in the Technology world.
3. LUMIA (NOKIA+MICROSOFT)

Q.4 A direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, XY was formed in1999, by the merger of X and Y. XY is the largest company in the world by revenue. 4. EXXONMOBIL

Q.5 What refers to an arrangement where private company acquires a public company in order to acquire the status of a public company?

The corporate shell of REO Motor Car company, in what amounted to a reverse "hostile" takeover, was forced by dissident shareholders to acquire a small publicly traded company, Nuclear Consultants. Eventually this company became the modern-day Nucor.

US Airways was acquired by America West Airlines, with the goal of removing the former from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Armand Hammer, world-renowned oil magnate and industrialist, is generally credited with having invented the Reverse Merger. In the 1950s, Hammer invested in a shell company into which he merged multi decade winner Occidental Petroleum.

Armand Hammer

Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898

[2]

December 10, 1990) was an American business manager and owner, most

closely associated with Occidental Petroleum,

a company he ran for decades,

Q.6 After its acquisition by Kingfisher Airlines in 2007, which airline renamed itself into Simplify __________ with its new tagline being : The Choice Is Simple. In August 2011, it rebranded itself to Kingfisher Red. Name the original airline company being talked about. 6. AIR DECCAN (SIMPLIFY DECCAN) Q.7 Which was the first non-German marquee of the Volkswagon group, a Spanish carmaker (whose name translates to Spanish Touring Car Company in English) it acquired in 1986? 7. SEAT ( Sociedad Espaola de Automviles de Turismo)

Q.8 X Started as the Graphics Group in 1979 and then turned into a corporation in February 1986 with funding by Steve Jobs, shortly after he left Apple Computers. The Walt Disney Company bought X in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, which made Steve Jobs as Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. Identify X.
8. PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIO

Pixar Production Logo

Edit this page

Talk0

1,731
THIS WIKI

PAGES ON

Added by WaldoWatcher

The Pixar production logo is a sequence that appears at the beginning and end of most Pixar productions movies, and features a playful desk lamp.

The 1986 short film Luxo, Jr. is

the source of the small hopping desk lamp included in Pixar's logo.

Sequence
Luxo Jr., without his cord, serves as the mascot for Pixar Animation Studios, appearing in its production logo before and after each film. He hops in from the right, stops next to the I in PIXAR, and jumps on it until he has completely squashed it down, as he did to the rubber ball in the short.

Luxo Jr.

Luxo Jr. is a 1986 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter. The short film, which runs two minutes, revolves around two desk lamps: a larger lamp and a smaller lamp.

John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an American animator, film director and thechief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Q.9 Mahindra & Mahindra formed a joint venture with which USA company in 2005 to produce Indian commercial vehicles (trucks and bases) under the brand names LoadKing, CabKing and Tourister?
9. NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL

Q.10 Which Indian company based in Gurgaon,Haryana has made three acquisitions till now -

Travel Services International (TSI) , MagicRooms.in &

all for undisclosed amounts?
10. YATRA.COM In June 2012,
[

BuzzInTown.com,

Yatra.com announced its plans to fully acquire Travelguru.com from Travelocity Global.

Q.11 An Indian company X acquired Y, making the combined entity the world's largest rolled-aluminium producer in 2007. Ys mission statement is To make the world lighter, brighter and better and it is headquartered in the same city as The Coca-Cola Company. Identify X and Y. 11. X- Hindalco, Y-Novelis Company history
The Novelis company was spun-off from Canadian mining and aluminum manufacturer,Alcan Inc. and incorporated in 2005.[4] The company was acquired by India's Hindalco Industries for $6 billion in 2007.[5] The acquisition made Hindalco one of the world's top integrated aluminum players.[6] This makes Novelis a member of the Aditya Birla Group.

Q.12 Named after company co-founder Louis _________, a Swiss-born auto racer, the company was merged into General Motors in 1917 and survives only as a brand name now.

12. CHEVROLET

Q.13 Hotjobs.com, was an online job search engine providing tools and advice for job seekers, employers, and staffing firms. It was acquired by X in 2002, but was then acquired by Y in 2010. HotJobs was later shut down and merged into Y. X and Y?

13. X- Yahoo! , Y- Monster.com

Q.15 Named after its founded Thomas _____________, it started as a supermarket chain in Scotland before it was sold off to Argyll Foods (a supermarket operator in UK) to allow the company to focus solely on its current product and become one of the famous brands in its category. Which company owns this brand now?
15. UNILEVER (Brand Lipton)

Q.16 PakTel was the first company granted the license to carry out cellular operations in Pakistan. Which company, worlds largest mobile phone operator with 655 million subscribers, purchased PakTel in 2007?

16. CHINA MOBILE

Companies

Q.1 This company was named after _______

Figure 1Jerry Greenfield (left) and Ben Cohen (right) in 2010.

Cohen and ______ Greenfield, who founded an ___________ parlour in 1978 after completing a correspondence course on___________ making from Pennsylvania State University. The company finds a special mention in a YashRaj romcom released in 2005 leading to a famous track from the movie. Identify the company.
ice cream, movie-Salaam Namaste) 1. BEN & JERRYs (blank

Q.2

Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Mario, Ettoro and Ernesto are the

_________ brothers. Identify the Italian company.
2. MASERATI
Maserati (Italian

six

pronunciation: [mazerati]) is an Italian luxury car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914,

in Bologna.
[2]

The company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned

by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A. since 1993.

Wadia Group
[2]

The Wadia Group is one of the

oldest conglomerates of corporate India. It was founded by Sir Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia in 1736. Lovji Wadia secured contracts with the British East India Company to build ships and docks in Bombay in 1736

Bombay Dyeing The textile flagship of India.

Bombay Realty - Handles the land management and development of Wadia Group land ownings.. [4] Britannia Industries A company famous for its Britannia and Tiger brands of biscuit, which are popular throughout the country. Britannia has an estimated 38% market share. Go Air A low cost airline operating from Mumbai. National Peroxide, hydrogen peroxide manufacturer in India.

The Wadia Group also edits the fashion magazine Gladrags and conducts the annual Gladrags Megamodel hunt in Mumbai

Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia (Unknown 1774)

Q.18 Identify the insurance company from its mascot.

MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, orMetLife, for short, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries.
[2][3]

The firm was founded on March 24, 1868

Figure 2The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower, which previously served as company headquarters, was featured in its advertising for many years.

Q.17 The largest supplier of logistics vehicle to Indian Army has entered into a Joint Venture with which Japanese company for launching a Light Commercial vehicle, 'DOST'? Ashok

Leyland Nissan

Q.15 Which brand markets its products under several sub-labels such as, Exchange, Junior, Collezioni? 15. ARMANI

Q.13 In 2007, which company demerged its R&D arm and listed it separately on the stock market as 'SPARC', focussing on new product entities and new drug delivery system? 13. SUN PHARMA

Dilip sanghvi Q.12 One of the famous logos of BizWorld has an image of a twin-tailed mermaid, or siren as shes known in Greek mythology" on it. In 2011, the company removed its wordmark around the siren, enlarging the siren and made it completely green. Identify the company. 12. STARBUCKS

Q.11 There are many companies which love to hate Microsoft. The principal enemies of Microsoft are commonly referred to as NOISE (Netscape, Oracle, IBM , Sun Microsystems and E_____________). What does E stand for?
11. EVERYONE ELSE

Q.10 Which company has run these ad campaigns in recent past : The Way The World Works , Be Absolutely Sure and The World On Time ?
10. FEDEX

Q.9 Which company, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. created these two famous video games: Grand Theft Auto series and Max Payne?

9. ROCKSTAR GAMES

Q.8 An Indian design company named after its founder has designed a special version of Tata Nano in 2010 and it also designed the car used in the movie Tarzan: The Wonder Car directed by Abbas-Mustan. Dilip Chhabria
He is qualified in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, U.S. and worked with General Motors USA in their Design Centre. He also started his own auto accessory business and became one of the largest auto accessory manufacturers in India. [citation needed] His company made the first prototype for the Aston Martin Vanquish which appeared in the James Bond movie Die Another Day In 2010 he designed a special version of Tata Nano. In August 2012 DC gave a complete external and internal make over to Mahindra XUV 500 with seating chairs made to recline up to 150 degrees and enhanced lounge

lighting

Q.7 Currently owned by an American consumer and commercial products company and headquartered in Sussex, England, this company received a patent on his "Lucky Curve" feed in 1894. Name the company endorsed by Amitabh Bachhan in India.
7. THE PARKER

PEN COMPANY

Q.4 Which companys premier product is sold under these different brand names -

Formula One, Terreracer, Link, Carrera, Monaco and Grand Carrera?

4.

TAG HEUR
Q.3 Googles headquarters is named after a combination of two words : Google and ________ . It is reference to a very large number: 10 raised to the power of Googol( which is itself 10 raised to the power of 100) from which Google derives its name. Name the headquarters.
number 10
10100

3. GOOGLEPLEX (the number being GOOGOLPLEX)

and a reference togoogolplex, the name

"Googleplex" is to the large

a portmanteau of Google and complex, , or 10

googol

given

Q2. Which management guru did The Economist call 'Euroguru'? 2. Sumantra Ghoshal Q5. Dubbed as Madame La Gaffe by the local press, she became the 1st woman head of a major organisation in 2011. Identify her.
5. Christine Lagarde

Q9. She is Elinor Ostrom

who passed away in 2012. What trivia does

she hold in the history of Economics? She was awarded the 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons".
[6]

She was the first, and to date, the only woman to win the prize in this

category. Her work was associated with the new institutional economics and the resurgence of political economy.

7. John Nash - The film made on his life, A Beautiful Mind is based on the unauthorized biography of the same name written by Sylvia Nasar won four Academy Awards in the 74th Oscars in 2002. John Nash won Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.

Q11. B.Sc Hons in Physics from IIT Kharagpur M.Sc Degree in Physics from IIT Kharagpur Masters Degree in Economics from Ohio State University,USA Humphrey Fellowship Program from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D in Economics from Andhra University Today, he occupies the top position in one of the most famous Indian institutions. Who?

Q.4 Who said this the five most dangerous words in business may be everyone else is doing it? 4.
Warren Buffet

Q.5 Which Nobel Prize laureate from India coined the term "missing women" to describe the large number of women in the world who are literally not alive due to family neglect and discrimination?
5. Amartya Sen

Q.6 Identify this business personality. 6. Ajay Bijli Q.7 In the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards 2012, who was adjudged the Creative Entrepreneur of the Year ?

7. Shahrukh Khan

Q.10 Sir Nowroji Saklatwala was the first Chairman of Cricket Club of India since its inception in 1933, till his death in 1938 and was instrumental in development of Barbourne Stadium, for which he also donated a large sum of money. He had also played for Parsees team during year 1904-05. But left playing active cricket due to his business pre-occupations. Which Business group did he head as its Chairman from 19321938 consolidating it after the Great Depression era? 10. Tata

Q. 11Which American industrialist and philanthropist , founder of one of the biggest companies of 19th century, penned the following words to sum up his life : I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of playI dropped the worry on the wayAnd God was good to me everyday.
11. John D. Rockefellar

Q.12 During his high school years, he under the company name Intelligent Media Group built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to

learn the user's listening habits. Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit him, but he refused. Who?

12. Mark Zuckerberg

Q.16 Identify this Amerian industrialist. 16. Henry Ford

Q.19 Who designed the mascot 'Gattu' for Asian Paints? 19. RK Laxman

Q.20 Which ad guru wrote the tagline 'The Tyre with Muscle' for MRF?
20. Alyque Padamsee

He is probably best known in the English-speaking world for playing Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the film Gandhi. Besides being involved in Indian theatre as an actor and producer, Padamsee is well known as an advertising professional who headed the advertising company Lintas.
[

A Double Life (autobiography) Padamsee created Lalitaji for Surf,

Cherry

Charlie for Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish, the MRF Muscle Man, the waterfall, the Kamasutra couple, Hamara Bajaj, the TV detective

the Liril girl in Karamchand

, the Fair & Handsome brand, etc