QUIZON - 9

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1. Identify the company. Hint: - Now it’s under the umbrella of an Indian MNC.
2. Can you identify the brand?
3. He is the scion of an Enterprise worth Rs 4000-crore, the industrial conglomerate founded in 1933. He also sits on the board of Godfrey Philips. He was listed among India's 20 most powerful people by India Today magazine. He was charged and pleaded guilty to possession of 400 grams of cocaine, assault and kidnapping in 1985 while he was a student at Duke University, USA. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison and came back to India in 1986.
4. It started in 1996; today the Company’s reach spans 26 states, making them one of the country’s top five hosiery undergarment manufacturers. Their two state-of-the-art manufacturing units at Kolkata and Tirupur manufacture 2.5 lakh units per day helping them to register a 14 per cent share in the Indian branded hosiery industry.
5. On August 23, 1937, two engineers with no substantial business experience discussed the foundation a new company. They had no clear idea what the company would make but they identified the field of broad Electronics Engineering for company foray. What they founded?
6. He was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, before being rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father moments before the planet's destruction. Adopted and raised by a Kansas farmer and his wife, the child is raised as Clark Kent, and imbued with a strong moral compass. He is hailed as "The Man of Steel," "The Man of Tomorrow," and "The Last Son of Krypton," by the general public.
7. The company’s first airplane the Navy test & the company faced difficulty during its first few years of operations then it entered into the furniture business to keep itself aloft. Which company I am talking about?
8. It first appeared in 1971, the title of this came from a friend of its co-founder who heard the term in an interview on WBAI radio. Modern use of this term as an honorific was conceived in 1961 by Sheila Michaels, thinking it was a typographical error. Michaels, who was illegitimate, and not adopted by her stepfather, had long grappled with finding a title that reflected her situation: not being "owned" by a father and not wishing to be "owned" by a husband. What I am talking about?
9. When it was outsourced to South America, the product did not sell. In local language the product meaning was like that “it is not coffee”. What I am talking about?
10. Edward P. Thompson started the edible oil industry in India as a consulting engineer but the man who introduced the soap to TOMCO was a man called P. T. John. With which name he became popular?

Enjoy Quizzing........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Get your friends to walk when they talk

Idea Cellular has decided to build on the success of the "walk when you talk" campaign and has launched another ad for the same. Users are now invited to log onto www.walkwhenyoutalk.co.in and enter the phone number of their friends, who will receive a remainder to walk when they talk.

RB & Pecsi

Reckitt Benckiser

Reckitt Benckiser has started a global digital campaign to address its lack of brand-awareness . On the priority list is the shift to a simpler logo — ‘RB’ . The two letters will replace the full Reckitt Benckiser name. PEPSI BECOMES ‘PECSI ’

When speaking Spanish, especially with an Argentine accent, people tend to say “Pecsi” instead of Pepsi. They have said it like this for years, now Pepsi has responded by launching a campaign changing the second P to a C, believed to be the first such change for the venerable brand. “Pecsi” is an easier pronunciation given Spanish phonetics, and it sort of comes naturally. BBDO Argentina came up with the idea of simply changing Pepsi to “Pecsi” and launched an integrated campaign to support it.

In Argentina, drinking a Pepsi costs one peso less than drinking a Coke. The message: If you drink Pepsi, you save. If you drink Pecsi, you save as well.

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25th anniversary of Virgin Atlantic

Image: (From left to right) Holly Branson, Richard Branson, Kate Moss and Sam Branson

To mark Virgin Atlantic's 25th birthday, Moss rocked up to the wing of a Virgin jumbo jet, dressed in a red romper and Yves Saint Laurent Tribute heels -- a successful imitation of the pin-up girls who grace VA's aircrafts -- and leaped into Sir Richard Branson's arms before an adoring crowd.

QuiZ for Knowledge not for Name fame and Honey Money!!

I started quizzing in year 2006, had a very bad start in a highly competitive and talented place called, pune. It was always tough for me to remain focused, but some how I did managed it, reason was simple, I was eager to know more about things around me. Hence, I kept on visiting(when u do not win, this is the best u can say) institutes after institutes, to be part of once event called 'QuiZ'. Now, I am telling you all this, well this was struck on my mind the moment I read a nice email interview of Giri, done by Praneeth, For me the best line was "Use quizzing as a tool to help yourself know more. Never read to win shows, read to gain knowledge. Once you start enjoying the process of knowing things you start doing well in life and in quiz shows as well."

Do read the full text http://www.bizgyan.blogspot.com/

Hippo

FMCG major Parle Agro, which also makes Frooti and Appy, entered into the growing branded snacks market in India with the launch of `Hippo’.

Parle Agro has positioned ‘Hippo’ as a healthy-baked snack with the goodness of wheat.


Head 2 Head Competitors:- Marico Ltd (Zest), ITC Foods, Pepsi Foods and Parle Product (Musst Bites) in the country’s market.

For ur kind information:- Parle Agro had added a beverage brand LMN, a lemon drink, and Grappo Fizz, a sparkling juice drink.”

Yahoo! launches contest in search of eco-friendly ideas

Yahoo! Launched a micro-site "green" in conjunction with an interactive campaign called Make it green. The site invites users to upload their ideas for making more sustainable life, as well as other ideas that can afford to do projects in eco-friendly home.

We’re searching for the best new green products and do-it-yourself projects so we can turn them into real products. What’s in it for you? A chance to star on the PBS TV show Everyday Edisons, a check for $2500, and the glory of knowing that your little planet-saving idea is lining the shelves of stores. Not particularly inventive? That’s ok — just go give a thumbs up to whatever idea you like best. You’ve got until June 30th.

Selling new soap in old bottles

New Soap is an enterprise in the United States that recycles plastic bottles of soft drinks and water companies to put them in cleaning products. The idea is owned by the artist and designer Scott Amron. Here's the backstory:

We sell brand name liquid soap packaged in old plastic soda bottles, plastic water bottles and glass beer bottles to help clean up our environments. Each bottle is cleaned, sanitized and processed for reuse as packaging for your favorite brand of liquid soap. Big companies aren't going to do this on their own. So we'll do it for them. We buy name brand liquid soap by the barrel and package it in old bottles here in America.

:) OOGLY GOOGLY ;)

Oogly googly!!!!!
One day, while in a hurry to search some plug-ins for eclipse.... i typed in the link oogle.com instead of google.com and was quite surprised as well as attracted by the catchy line “Because of the economy g has been dropped”!!! The rest of the look was entirely similar to that of Google.com..
First instinct was that wo!!! what is google up to but then one of my friends showed me the copyright mark which stated this website had nothing to do with google... then I just searched about this site and found the following written in a blog...
“Oogle.com is a search engine. It is like google.com, but uses ask.com to
answer or search for whatever you type into it's search bar. For example;
If I were to type Cat in the search bar, and hit enter, near the top left
corner of the page, there is the logo for Ask.com, and the word Cat is in
the Ask search bar. It basically turns into Ask.com.” .
Oogle is just one letter short of google. Happy mistyping and oogling.....
All thanx to confused Public, Oogle.com is a top 10,000 site that reaches over 287K U.S. monthly people, and is ranked at 5612 (as per www.quantcast.com).