Answers to last week's quiz (#227)

 

1. Who designed the world’s first corporate logo and when, and for which company?
   Peter Behrens, regarded as the father of Industrial design, for AEG, a German company

    

2. Which company claims that by using its trademarked 3-in-a-box strategy, it is able to grow and meet the market expectations?
   Cognizant Technology Solutions

    

3. The Indian founder of this business group was a college drop-out who drove taxi cabs in London and cleaned hotel rooms to support himself before starting his career in the business of retailing. Name him.
   Micky Jagtiani of the Landmark Group, Dubai

    

4. Which was the first movie to be released on YouTube on the day of its theatrical release in international markets?
   Striker

    

 

Which brand in India has set up a group of local cricket teams having seven players per team who play seven balls an over?
7-Up in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. It is being called the 7-Up lemon pattalam

 

During the history of this 100-year-old brand, there was a point in time when a model called 490 was launched by it that was sold for $490. Why?
Chevrolet’s Will Durant wanted to compete with Ford’s $490 Model T in order to get a sizeable market share. Chevrolet’s first car was a pricey $2250 in 1911

 

The corporate image of this company is a small white teddy bear, adapted from a Christmas card sent by the grandson of the company’s founder to his grandmother during the early 1950s. Today it is the world’s largest producer of an essential food item consumed all over the world. Name it. 
Grupo Bimbo of Mexico is the world’s largest producer of bread

 

With what first was an Anglo-Armenian converted to Islam who had mastered the thumri style of singing associated?
Gauhar Jan’s songs were the first ones to have been recorded on a disc in India by the Gramophone Company of India in 1902

 

Name the brand for which animation was used for the first time in a TV commercial
Bassett’s Murray mints, a brand now owned by Cadbury’s

 

This logo was designed by a mint master who chose the banyan tree since merchants used to collect under a banyan tree and conduct business in ancient times. It is the entity’s first logo which was subsequently changed. Identify it.

State Bank of India

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