AQAD 112

Who am I?

Shoot your reply at bizdomonline@gmail.com

“Go Babelicious” - TVS Scooty Pep+

 

Would you like to contribute on Bizdom: Send your GYaan at bizdomonline@gmail.com

Animal Logos & Trivia - Series 6

Bacardi

Don Facundo Bacardi Masso, a wine merchant emigrated from Spain to Cuba in 1829 where he find that their popular drink namely the rum was of a dark, rich but not refined properly. He experimented and came out with a light, smooth and flavorable drink which he named Bacardi Rum.

Trivia:-

In 1862, Facundo Bacardi bought a tin roof distillery in Santiago de Cuba where a great number of fruit bats resided under the roof of this distillery, which are considered to be a good luck omen in Cuban mythology. From there on the image of the bat is appearing on the brand’s logo.

______________________________________________

The laughing cow (French: La vache qui rit)

It was launched by Leon Bel & Jules Bel in 1921 is a brand of cheese products made by Fromageries Bel.

Trivia:-

The original La Vache qui Rit had no laugh and it wasn't red and didn't wear the tiny cheese earrings. The Laughing Cow was registered as a trademark by Leon Bel in 1921, making The Laughing Cow. In 1924 his friend Benjamin Rabier, created and designed a laughing cow caricature for the packaging which has continued to this very day. 

O2 signed for NBA LONDON Games

O2 has become the first promotional partner of the National Basketball Association’s ‘NBA Games – London 2011’, the first-ever NBA regular season games to take place in Europe.

O2 will also partner the NBA’s Europe Live preseason games and as part of the deal O2 will run competitions for its customers to win tickets and exclusive NBA experiences to NBA matches.

Bytes:-

The National Football League (NFL) played its first competitive game outside the US in 2007, with Wembley hosting an annual game in the UK every year since.

Would you like to contribute on Bizdom: Send your GYaan at bizdomonline@gmail.com

Global Nescafé Plan

Nestlé launched the Nescafé Plan bringing under one umbrella Nestlé’s commitments on coffee farming, production and consumption. 

The Nescafé Plan contains a set of objectives which will help Nestlé further optimize its coffee supply chain. The Rainforest Alliance, an international non-governmental organization, will support Nestlé together with other partners of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and the coffee association, 4C, in meeting the Nescafé Plan objectives related to farming. 

Over the next five years, Nestlé will double the amount of Nescafé coffee bought directly from farmers and their associations, eventually purchasing 180,000 tonnes of coffee from around 170,000 farmers every year. With the support of the Rainforest Alliance and the 4C Association, all directly purchased green coffee will meet the internationally-recognized 4C sustainability standards by 2015. In addition, 90,000 tonnes of Nescafé coffee will be sourced according to the Rainforest Alliance and Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) principles by 2020.

Under the Nescafé Plan, Nestlé will distribute 220 million high-yield, disease-resistant coffee plantlets to farmers by 2020. This helps farmers to rejuvenate their plantations, thus multiplying the yield on existing land and increasing farmers’ income. Through partnerships with public and private institutions in a number of countries, including Mexico, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, Nestlé has already distributed over 16 million coffee plantlets over the past ten years. Nestlé is also expanding its technical assistance programmes, in which Nestlé agronomists provide advice on farming and post-harvest practices, to over 10,000 coffee farmers a year.

Trivia:-
The Nescafé Plan comes on top of the Cocoa Plan, launched in October 2009, a CHF 110 million investment to improve the quality of cocoa which includes the distribution of 12 million high-yield, disease-resistant cocoa plantlets by 2020.

Trivia Post: First alkaline battery

In 1955, Eveready moved researcher Lew Urry from an office in Toronto to its Cleveland plant and told him to come up with a better battery. At the time, the state of the art was the carbon zinc battery. Urry began looking at past failed experiments with alkaline, in which electrons pass from an anode made of zinc to a cathode made of manganese di and carbon while immersed in an alkaline electrolyte.

Urry experimented with different combinations of materials. He struck pay dirt when he used zinc in a loosely packed powder form. He also discarded the button-shape of the earlier alkaline batteries, going instead with a cylinder shape of commercial batteries already on the market. By the late 1950's he'd honed what he thought was a pretty good alkaline battery, and was ready to try and persuade the company to put the battery on the market. Using a mockup battery from an empty flashlight shaft, Urry put his prototype into a toy car, and a carbon zinc battery into an identical toy. He grabbed Eveready vice president of technology R.L. Glover and headed for the cafeteria at the Cleveland plant.

By the early 1960's, the alkaline was changing the way we lived. If you wanted to listen to the radio, you could go for a walk with your transistor, rather than gathering with family around the living-room console. The alkaline battery continues to improve. Energizer officials say today's battery lasts 40 times longer than the 1959 prototype.

Text taken from http://corrosion-doctors.org/PrimBatt/urry.htm

AQAD 111

Well this was their first logo,search your wallet you might find the answer.

Shoot your answers to bizdomonline@gmail.com
Would you like to contribute on Bizdom: Send your GYaan at bizdomonline@gmail.com

Flashback Tata Crucible Quiz Part 13

- This location is named after the one-time headquarters of The New York Times, and is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, which centers on 42nd Street and Broadway. Identify?

- Renowned Swiss designer Laurent Rufenacht and design advisor Michael Foley created this product for launch in February 2006. The product is deemed as the first of its kind by any Indian manufacturer. What product/brand are we talking about?

- The name of X derives from the fact that during the 17th century, it formed the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. X was ostensibly meant as a defense against attack from Lenape Indians, New England colonists, and the British, but it was actually used to keep the colony’s black slaves from escaping. X was dismantled by the British in 1699. What is X?


Would you like to contribute on Bizdom: Send your GYaan at bizdomonline@gmail.com

‘The Chair’ - India’s first ever horror-reality show

UTV Bindass set to presents India’s first ever horror-reality show – ‘The Chair’ that showcases the pathway enabling participants to shift from the conscious state to its subconscious counterpart.

A first-of-its kind reality show where 13 daring individuals who wish to overcome their fears tread unchartered territory in haunting locations across India and connect with the dead. 

‘Priority Inbox’ in Gmail

Google has introduced ‘priority inbox’ service for Gmail users which is a complex set of algorithms that can analyse a user’s email behaviour, and rank emails depending on their perceived importance.

Users who opt for priority inbox function will see their messages separated in to three categories, with emails deemed important and unread bumped to the top of the inbox.

Bytes:-
The G-mail service has an estimated 146 million monthly users.