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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?