- This company’s website greets you with the tag line: “Faster. Further. Freer — Our Message in a Bottle.” These are its leading principles on the basis of which it runs its business. Name it.
Coty, the 100- year-old fragrance company
- Which famous brand name is a tribute to Sir William Thomson who in 1850 had laid down the scientific foundations for refrigeration methods?
Kelvinator. Sir William Thomson was the first Baron Kelvin of Largs.
- Name the business model (term) that service providers like Flickr, Newsgator and Skype have adopted?
Freemium. It is a business model where the owner or service provider offers basic services to users free and charges a premium for supplemental or advanced features.
- Which French company in the early 1970s invited the Swiss company, Nestle, to take an indirect holding in it, fearing that François Mitterrand, a presidential candidate at that time, would nationalise the firm if he got elected?
L’Oréal.
- This business book’s title comes from a character in Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass who explains to Alice that “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” Aptly, this book is on competitiveness, written by a Stanford University Professor. In fact, the title is also a management term now. Name it.
The Red Queen Among Organisations written by William P Barnett. “Red queen of competition” is a management jargon.
- Identify this person: He followed Buddhism as a religion, was expelled from Harvard University twice for dissident behaviour, he predicted the Internet in 1962 and has 47 honorary doctorates to his name.
Buckminster Fuller.
- This retailing brand in India has its origins to the year 1863 when two men set up a shop that was later taken over by the Oakshott family and made into a public limited company in 1897. Name this existing brand.
Spencers, now owned by the RPG Group. - Although it was invented in 1889, the first printed reference to this invention appeared only in 1939 (in the Time magazine). Name this invention.
The Jukebox.
- Which accounting firm took over Arthur Andersen’s partners in India (after the Enron scam) and went on to become the largest professional services firm in India then.
Ernst and Young.
- Identify the brand from the logo.
Guinness '
| There were 40 all-correct entries for quiz # 85. The winners who will receive a copy of Damodaran on Valuation are: Atul Agrawal, Bhubaneswar; Dimple Sudersan, Kochi; Jayati Chakraborty, Kolkata; Vamsi Krishna S V, Indore; Mohita Y, Secunderabad; Sahiti P, Chennai; Neha Agarwal, Mumbai; Rachana Kapadia, Mumbai; Abhishek Ramanand Modani, Pilani; and Udayabhanu, Kochi. Atul Agrawal also wins Rs 2,000. |