The Strategist Quiz Answers #026

1. Rolex watches
   
   
2. Charles Franklin Kettering. He invented the all-electric starting, ignition and lighting system for automobiles. All-electric starters replaced crank (manual) starting of automobiles.
   
   
3. Zara, the Spanish brand founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona (Ortega)
   
   
4. Dubai-based Zabeel Investments alongside with the Global Strategic Equities Fund LP (GSEF), a Dubai government-owned fund, has picked up substantial stake in both these companies
   
   
5. Tesco of the UK
   
   
6. ABN Amro NV
   
   
7. Gauhar Jaan songs are captured on the first ever disc to be cut in India. An engineer from EMI, Fred Gainsburg, came to India in 1902 scouting for talent and chose Gauhar Jaan's music.
   
   
8. Gloria Jean's
   
   
9. The USHA brand. It started first with sewing machines.
   
   
10. Richard Branson, to promote Virgin's new multi-service mortgage bank accounts

There were 27 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 26. Ten winners who will receive a copy of Kellogg on Branding are: Anjali Vaidya, Vadodara; Aayushi Mishra, Faridabad; Raghav Rastogi, Ahmedabad; Bharadwaj N, Bangalore; Shailendra Singh, Noida; Abdul Hamid, New Delhi; Subhro Kanto Mukherjee, Bangalore; Shilpa Pakalkar, Mumbai; S M Aslam, Ranchi; and K Narasimhan, Chennai. Anjali Vaidya also wins Rs 2,000.