Answers to the Strategist quiz (#503)

Strategy Quiz (#503) answers

1. This nearly 400-year-old company was founded in Constantinople in the 17th century. The founder was an alchemist looking for a way to turn base metal into gold; he created an alloy combining tin, copper and silver into a sheet of metal that could make musical sounds without shattering. His company moved from manufacturing noisemakers that frightened the enemies of the Ottoman Empire to manufacturing __ as musical instruments in the 19th century. It is now a US-based company. Name it.

The Avedis Zildjian Company, simply known as Zildjian, the cymbal manufacturer
 
2. Name this department of a large company