Monday, March 21, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 647

League matches are over. Have you done the subsitutions for Quarterfinals?. Visit www.supercricteam.com
Hint: Bleeding Madras
Answer: Leela Palaces, Hotels & Resorts
Read the para below for rationale behind the hint. :)

Leela Palaces, Hotels & Resorts is an Indian luxury hotel chain based in Mumbai, currently with six deluxe hotels, located in Mumbai, Bangalore, Kovalam, Udaipur, Goa and Gurgaon. Owned by the Leela Group founded in 1957, named Leela, after the wife of its founder, C. P. Krishnan Nair, the Leela Hotels have marketing alliances with Germany based Kempinski Hotels; US-based Preferred Hotel Group and are members of Global Hotel Alliance based in Geneva, Switzerland.

C. P. Krishnan Nair served in the Indian National Army under Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. In 1950, he married Leela, the daughter of a handloom owner from Kannur, subsequently, he started helping his father-in-law in the latter's garment export business, eventually taking it over and developing export markets, becoming one of the pioneers of the Bleeding Madras fabric, which became much popular in the 1960s. By 1980s his textile business, called "Leela Lace" after his wife, was flourishing and had built textile factory in North Mumbai.