BIJINESS KOSHUN 30
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
X, a mechanical engineer, established a small engineering shop in Frankfurt am Main in 1921. In 1923 he began producing components for radio sets. Soon they started manufacturing radio sets and became one of Germany's leading radio manufacturers. In 1935 the eponymous brand was introduced. Three years later, the company had more than 1000 employees. In the 1950's, the company introduced Y, the product it is best known for today. Although Y was designed in 1938, World War II delayed its introduction until 1951.Identify X and Y.
Answer:X is Braun, Y is the electric shaver. Cracked by Mrinalini and Harsh!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 29
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Identify this legendary management guru:
Answer:Peter Drucker it is! Cracked by Chandrashekar, Ritika, Anish and Mrinalini! Read more...
BIJINESS KOSHUN 28
Monday, November 23, 2009
Identify the logo(Hint:Automotive):
Answer:Maserati it is. Cracked by Ritika, Anish and Harsh! Read more...
BIJINESS KOSHUN 27
Saturday, November 21, 2009
This company traces it's origins to the Timmins Daily Press which was acquired by Roy Herbert with a downpayment of 200$ in 1934. Over the years it has grown into a global media concern. Identify.
Answer:Thomson corporation, which is presently Thomson Reuters. Cracked by Mrinalini!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 25
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Connect:
Answe:Heineken. They are sponsors for the UEFA Champions League, Chelsea and the rugby world cup. Cracked by none.
BIJINESS KOSHUN 24
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
This company was founded in 2005, by two graduates of the University of Virginia. The company got it's name from something the one of the founders overheard while browsing the University's library. Which company?
Answer:Reddit.Cracked by Mrinalini!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 23
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Identify this legendary businessman:
Hint:
Answer:Ray Kroc. The hint depicted a cartoon published after 'Croc' hunter Steve Irwin's death. Read more...
BIJINESS KOSHUN 22
Saturday, November 14, 2009
This company was founded in 1937, with the primary aim of meeting the need for a domestic military aircraft industry in Sweden. With the second world war on the horizon, the company started building bombers and fighters for the Royal Swedish Air Force.In the 1960’s they helped to create Sweden’s computer, missile and space industries.Identify.
Answer:Saab. Cracked by Mrinalini, Ritika and Chandrashekar!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 21
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Jacob Broom built a cotton mill at this site in 1795. The mill burned down in 1797, and in 1802 he sold the site, complete with a working dam and millrace to X, who paid $6,740 for the 95 acres.X founded his eponymous company at this site, and started by reworking damaged gunpowder and refining saltpetre. Soon they started manufacturing gunpowder and as much as half of the powder used by the Union Army during the American Civil War was supplied by them.Identify.
Answer:X is Éleuthère Irénée du Pont. Cracked by Mrinalini, Chandrashekar and Harsh!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 20
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sitter. Google doodle commemorating what?
Answer:In commemoration of 20 years since the fall of the berlin wall. Cracked by Anish, Ritika and Chandrashekar! Read more...
BIJINESS KOSHUN 19
Sunday, November 8, 2009
This company was founded in 1976 and began with just 11 employees and a small capital of 25,000$.It was primarily a main consultant for the use of microprocessor technologies and a distributor of a wide variety of electronic parts, but it began developing into a personal computer manufacturer. Today it is the largest laptop manufacturer in the world, and the second largest manufacturer of PC's, after HP. Identify.
Answer:Acer it is. Cracked by Ritika, Chandrashekar, Anish and Harsh!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 17
Thursday, November 5, 2009
This company was founded in February 1982 by three senior managers from semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments. Each invested $1,000 to form the company. Legend has it that the design of their first product was initially sketched out on a placemat by the founders while dining in the
Answer:Compaq.Cracked by Ritika and Meenakshi!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 15
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
This company was founded in 1938 as a small trading company with forty employees located in Daegu. The primary products were dried Korean fish, fruits, and vegetables traded from Beijing and Manchuria.The business expanded over the years and it acquired flour mills and confectionery machines,started it's own manufacturing and sales operations and is now a global corporation that is offering various brands and products across the world. Identify the company.
Answer: Samsung.Cracked by Harsh and Ritika!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 12
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sitter.Identify this controversial logo.
Answer:Logo of Woolworth. The controversy was owing to it's similarity with the Apple logo. Cracked by Rajiv and Ritika!
Read more...
BIJINESS KOSHUN 11
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The youngest of the nine children of a poor Jewish emigrant from Russia, X, whose father eked out a living as a used furniture dealer, grew up in the working-class district of Montmartre dreaming of a better life on the Champs-Elysees.
Forced to leave school at the age of 12 to help support his family, he held a series of jobs until he hit on the idea that would transform his life and the cultural face of France.
Convinced that merchants could use and would pay for professional help in designing newspaper and other advertisements, at 18 he scraped up enough money to pay for a scouting trip to the United States.
Although he arrived speaking no English, he absorbed so much of the new American advertising technique that when he returned to France the next year, he promptly opened Y, which is regarded as the first French advertising agency. Identify X and Y.
Answer:X is Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. Y is Publicis. Cracked by Anish!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 9
Monday, October 26, 2009
X was co-founded in Switzerland, in 1981 by two Stanford Masters alumni, Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta along with Giacomo Marini.The ubiquitous Y was the product that made X well-known.Identify X and Y.
Answer:X is Logitech. Y is the computer mouse. Cracked by Ritika and Subin!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 8
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Identify the logo.
Answer:Oriental Bank of Commerce.Cracked by Ritika and Dilip!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 7
X, which traces it's beginnings to 1916, is one of the oldest companies in the Japanese automotive industry. X made Japan's first domestically produced truck. It is named after the X river. After World War II, development and production of trucks occurred at a feverish pace.X trucks were needed to carry all kinds of products and foodstuffs, and they played a major role in reconstruction after the war. Identify.
Answer:Isuzu
BIJINESS KOSHUN 6
Friday, October 23, 2009
Yet another print ad. Identify.
Answer:Sony re-writable DVD's
BIJINESS KOSHUN 4
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This product was first featured in this scene from a 2008 movie. It was subsequently released in the markets a few months later. Identify the product.(The movie is kinda obvious)
ANSWER:The scene is from the Dark Knight, in which the phone used by Morgan Freeman was a prototype of the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. The phone was released in the market a few months later.
BIJINESS KOSHUN 3
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Yet another connect:
Answer: The logos of RBS, Fortis, Banco Santander and ABN AMRO respectively. In 2007 a consortium comprising of RBS, Fortis and Banco Santander took over ABN AMRO,in what was the largest take over in banking history.Cracked by zipts!
BIJINESS KOSHUN 2
Monday, October 19, 2009
Connect:
Answer: S D Shibulal, K Dinesh and N Raghavan. 3 of the 'lesser known' co founders of Infosys.
BIJINESS KOSHUN 1
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Connect the following pics:
Answer: The first pic is that of the Amazon river. The second shows the infamous A9 highway in Sri Lanka. A9 is also the name of the internal browser of Amazon.The connect is A9. An arbit ques to start off with!
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