Sunday 31 March 2013

01-04-2013


11. The idea to float  this company took birth in the campus of cet “when a group of friends set out to do something that was unheard in kerala - start a technology company while still in college. While others called it madness, they called it as _______ ?

Mr. Sanjay vijayakumar  one of the Co-founder and ceo of this particular company said “this moment screams out loud as a new breed of entrepreneurs is setting sail from the shores of kerala. We have set aside a seaside village called "startup village" to help teams from kerala to undertake this journey over next six years. It revolution globally has been driven by youth and we feel india will be no different”
                      
                         Identify the company?

12. This is a term coined by Rohit Bhargava, a senior vice president at Ogilvy, for the practice of brands using social media to create an affinity with customers who share the same sentiments with friends.
                      Which term?

13. This brand of Cigar was established in 1968 as a limited production private brand supplied exclusively to FidelCastro and high-level officials in the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban government.The brand was launched as a Premium Cigar brand in to markets in 1982 in conjunction with theWorld Cup held in Spain.
           
               Which Cigar Brand?

14. This brand was originated as  a result of difficulties in  importing coca-cola syrup into Nazi Germany during World War ii. Max Keith, the head of coca-cola Deutschland (coca-cola gmbh) during the second world war, decided to create a new product for the German market,.he created a new drink out of ingredients that was available to him and made it specifically avilable to the Nazi market.
What brand was introduced because of short supply of coca-cola?

15. X is produced 400 Million  daily

      X are sold in more than 500 Million Retail Stores!

      4551  X are Consumed per second
  
      1 Billion packs of X are produced Monthly!

      If all X consumed  annually are put end-to-end they    would cover the Earth’s Circumference  192 times.

     X sells more than all the brands sold in China  in that category,which is the Fourth largest Market in the World.

     If a Month’s production  of X are stacked side by side,the distance between Earth to Moon  of 7.25 Lakh kms can be covered. 

Identify X ?

16. European company,into forest products for the first 130 years of its existence, diversified into television manufacturing in the eighties, but lost money there, burnt its fingers making computers and ultimately sold the computer division, faced a slump during the Russian recession of the early 90s, went deep in the red, and its CEO committed suicide The new CEO decided to change the business they were in ,and virtually reinvented the company. Name the company?

17.  ‘X’ was founded as a restaurant by Parampalli Yajnanarayana Maiya and his brothers in the year 1924.In the mid 1970s when India was under emergency, a Food Control Act was introduced which mandated that food was to be sold at very low prices. This move made it difficult for ‘X’ to maintain high standards in its restaurant business and forced it to diversify into the instant food. Having its origin in the city of Bangalore, it has a restaurant located on the Lal Bagh Road in Bangalore. ‘X’ also claims to be the inventor of the popular South-Indian breakfast item, Rava Idli. What is ‘X’?

18. ‘X’ was developed and first produced by the National Biscuit Company (today known as Nabisco) in 1912 at its Chelsea factory in New York City, which was located on Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets. It was first introduced in India in March 2011 by ‘Y’ a major chocolate brand recently acquired by Kraft. What is ‘X’ and ‘Y’?

19. The name was devised by Mr. A.R.Reid , to whom it came 'out of the air ' when he was travelingone evening in 1929 on his usual train home from London to South end-on Sea . The namealso is [ or was ] that of a brand of adhesive tape in Australia , and a consequent embarrassment to at least one lady visitor to England who should have asked for Sellotape or Scotch tape .Identify the brand?


20. You may know what is blue collar or white collar worker. What's Steelcolar worker and OpenCollar workers?



21. . X was founded in Rochester, New York, in 1851 as The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. After a series of acquisitions of competing companies by Hiram Sibley and Don Alonzo Watson, the company changed its name to X Telegraph Company in 1856 at the insistence of Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Cornell University, to signify the joining of telegraph lines from coast to coast. It introduced the first stock ticker in 1866 and was one of the original eleven companies tracked when the Dow Jones Transportation Average stock market index for the NYSE was created in 1884. Identify X.?

22. It was being considered to name it Jersey and Highland Milk, the product that was launched to challenge the Swiss domination in this category. What was the product ultimately called?

23. Name the drink that was initially sold as medicine for the headache and it was advertised with a tagline of "The Idea Brain Tonic"?

24. If you file the 'chapter number 11' in USA in the name of your company what would you do?

25. While flying bombers in South East Asia, he hit upon this novel idea and as a result started his company just outside the Detroit Airport in 1946 with a loan of $ 75,000 and three cars. Name this enterprising venture?


Answers (31-03-2013)

5. Dr. Pepper



Dr Pepper is a Soft Drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by Charles Alderton of Waco, Texas and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904 .

6.  Pringles

7.  Traffic Cones and VLC Media Player 

8. Maruti ad for ZEN

9. 501 Bar Soap

10. FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry)

                                                                                          










31-03-2013

5. It's not an apple, it's not an orange, it's not a strawberry, it's not a root beer, it's not even a cola. It's a different kind of drink with a unique taste all its own."the Ceo of which brand about its unique taste said these words?


6. X cans because of their shape, have been used to make Wi-Fi network antennas, known as cantennas.These cans can also be use to make "cannons," or, "poppers," by putting a round hole in the bottom end of the can and blowing hard a loud popping sound will be made as the lid flies off. When filled with little bits of paper it shoots out confetti.The popular newspaper comic Dilbert references a use for the X can. Dilbert rolls up his clothing in a X tube so he can change clothes at work without having to drive home and change clothes.X containers can also be used to hold up to three tennis balls. This similarity of shape was the subject of a joke by Mitch Hedberg, who speculated that tennis balls were what X had originally intended to make.

Tell me the product that I am referring to?

7. The students of ecole centrale has an unusual hobby of collecting something from the roads they went out down  on trips and this is used as an logo of open source software developed by them.what are we talking about?

8. This ad on Indian TV a few years back drew all round protests from women social rights organizations for wrongly depicting woman as a sex object. The ad showed a predator car chasing a scantly clad girl on a lonely street. The ad ended with a voice saying 'surrender to .... '. Which product was being advertised?

9. This brand was the brainchild of P T John who came to be known as Soap John, a name famous even today in Kerala. John who had specialised in soap making won the confidence of Jal Nowroji, Chief Executive of the Tatas. The TOMCO factory at Ernakulam then started creating this..Identify this brand,which is a household name in Kerala?

10. In 1927, the Indian capitalists despite their differences and clash of interests formed an organisation with PURUSHOTTAMDAS THAKURDAS at its helm. Name the organisation? (5 letter word)

Answers (29-03-2013)

1. Cyber Monday

     Cyber Monday is a Marketing term for the Monday,after 


Black Friday


2. Pepsodent


3. X - Microsoft


   Y- Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger)


4. VICKS VAPORUB



 

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Friday 29 March 2013

29-03-2013


1. The term X was first debuted on 28 November 2005. On 4 December 2012 Google India decided to partner with leading e-commerce websites to introduce the concept of X in the country. Titled as the Great Online Shopping Festival, it is slated for 12 December 2012. Some of the e-commerce websites that would partner with Google India include Snapdeal, Flipkart, Homeshop 18 as well as Makemytrip. X was the term which was created by certain marketing companies in order to attract people towards the concept of online shopping.
                   What was the term X?


2.“YOU WILL WONDER WHERE THE YELLOW WENT”,IS A SLOGAN COINED BY FOOT,CONE AND BLENDER DURING THE LATE 1940S FOR THIS BRAND.IDENTIFY THIS BRAND?

HINT: The brand is owned by Unilever, but in 2003 the rights to the brand in the United States and Canada were bought by Church and Dwight.

3.X was recently planned to shut down Y on January 2013, with  a view to enabling  its users to move down to Skype from 15 march 2013 onwards. Over 100 million users of Y provided by X were notified by email over short period of time except those in mainland China where X have extended the life of  Y in that particular area for an undisclosed period of time.
                          Identify X & Y ?

4. The original name of this product was “LR Croup and Pneumonia Salve “. Its founder’s son thought that name was too cumbersome and renamed it after his brother-in-law,who was a doctor.
                  Identify the brand?



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