Saturday, April 30, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 687 - Connect Question





Question: Identify each logo and also connect the second and third logos to the first one.
Points: 1 point each to identify the logo and 1 point for the connect. i,e. Total 4 points up for grab.
Answer:  1. Jubliant Foodworks
2. Dunkin Donuts
3. Dominoes
4. Connect: Jubiant is the master franchise of Dominoes and Dunkin Donuts in India.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 686

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Hint: Marquee
Answer: Lagonda
Lagonda is a British luxury car marque, founded as a company in 1906 in Staines, Middlesex by a former opera singer from Ohio, but of Scottish ancestry, named Wilbur Gunn (1859-1920). He named the company after a river near the town of his birth, Springfield, Ohio, United States. The marque has been owned by Aston Martin since 1947.

P.S. I have given points only to people who have written Lagonda as answer and not to people who have written Aston Martin.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 685

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Hint: Recently launched in India. Although it was there in India in late 90s too.
Answer:  Hyosung Motorcycles.
Garware Motors recently launches Hyosung bikes in India. Kinetic had a technical tie-up with Hyosung in 90s.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 684

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Hint: Mobile company
Answer:  T24 or Talk-24, a mobile telephone service from Future Group and Tata Teleservices.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 683

Answer: Future Group or Pantaloon Retail
Future Group, led by its founder and Group CEO, Mr. Kishore Biyani, operates some of India’s most popular retail formats that include Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central, Home Town, Ezone and Food Bazaar. While retail forms the core business activity of Future Group, the group has developed significant presence in consumer finance, capital, insurance, brand development, retail media and logistics.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 682

Answer: Emerson Electric Company
Emerson Electric Company (NYSE: EMR) is a major multinational corporation headquartered in Ferguson, Missouri, United States. This Fortune 500 company provides engineering services for a wide range of industrial, commercial, and consumer markets. Emerson is one of the largest conglomerate companies in the USA.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 681

Answer: National Aluminium Company Limited, abbreviated as 'NALCO'
National Aluminium Company Limited, abbreviated as 'NALCO', (incorporated 1981) (BSE: 532234) has units all over India at places like Angul and Damanjodi. It was incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India in 1981.
Today, it is Asia's largest, and one of the world's leading and the sixth largest, integrated aluminium complex, encompassing bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and casting, power generation, rail and port operations. It boasts of some of the world's latest and finest technology in the Aluminium manufacturing industry.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 680

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Answer:  Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated.


Friday, April 22, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 679

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Answer: Fruit of the Loom
Fruit of the Loom is an American company which manufactures clothing, particularly underwear. The company's world headquarters is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is currently a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.


Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 677

Hint: Vague connection - Sania Mirza
Answer: GVK Group. GVK group is one of the sponsors of Sania Mirza.


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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 676

Hint: Finance company


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Answer: The Muthoot Group
The Muthoot Group is an 123-year-old business house based in India. It has interests in Financial Services, Information Technology, Media, Healthcare, Education, Power Generation, Infrastructure, Plantations, Precious Metals and Hospitality. The Muthoot Group operates in 21 states in India, and has a customer base of over 25 million. It is wholly owned and managed by the Muthoot Family.
The Group takes its name from the Muthoot Family based in Kerala. The Company was set up by Muthoot Ninan Mathai in 1887 at Kozhencherry, a small town in the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore (Kerala). It was then later taken over by his son M George Muthoot who incorporated the Finance division of the group which was till then primarily involved in wholesale of grains. The company is now managed by the third and fourth generation of its family members.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 675

Hint: Connect is the IPL


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Answer:  GMR Group
GMR Group is a major infrastructure company in India which is headquartered in Bangalore. The company was founded in 1978. The core business areas of the company include airports, energy and highways; apart from having presence in the agriculture and aviation sectors. GMR Group chairman Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao, a first-generation entrepreneur hails from Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 674

Have you created you team at www.supercricteam.com

Hint: IPL is the connect.
Answer: Rendezvous Sports World (RSW)
Rendezvous Sports World (RSW) is a new cricket franchise in the Indian Premier League which has 10% of equity on Kochi IPL Team. Rendezvous Sports World Limited is a consortium made up of multiple companies. It had made the winning bid of USD 333 million in a global invitation to tender process called by the IPL for two new franchises from IPL season 2011

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 673


Answer: Champion
Champion is a manufacturer of clothing, specializing in sportswear. The brand is a subsidiary of HanesBrands Inc. (based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina), which was spun off by the Sara Lee Corporation.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 672

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Hint: Retailer
Answer: Best Buy Co., Inc.
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is a specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Mexico, Canada, China, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates under both the Best Buy and Future Shop label. Together these operate more than 1,150 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, China, Mexico, and Turkey. In addition, the company has rolled out over 100 Best Buy Express Automated Retail stores or "ZoomShops", operated by Zoom Systems, in airports and malls around the U.S. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Richfield, Minnesota.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 671

Win prizes at www.supercricteam.com
Hint: consulting company
Answer: Atos Origin S.A.
Atos Origin S.A. (Euronext: ATO) is an international information technology corporation which operates in 40 countries worldwide, with over 50,000 employees. The company, France's second-largest and Europe's third-largest IT services firm, is listed on Euronext Paris and is a member of the CAC Mid 100 stock market index.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 670

Have you registered your team at www.supercricteam.com?
Hint: Footwear.
Answer: Crocs, Inc.
Crocs, Inc. is a shoe manufacturer founded by entrepreneur George B. Boedecker, Jr. to produce and distribute a foam clog design acquired from a Quebec company called Foam Creations. The shoe had originally been developed as a spa shoe. The first model produced by Crocs, the Crocs Beach, was unveiled in 2002 at the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show, and sold out the 200 pairs produced at that time.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 669

Hint: Coffee house
Answer:  Caribou Coffee
Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU) is a specialty coffee and espresso retailer, the second largest in the United States after Starbucks. Caribou sells coffee, tea, and bakery goods in 415 company-owned coffeehouses in 16 states and the District of Columbia, as well as 126 franchise locations worldwide.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 668

Hint: Its products are made to kill and they do.
Answer: Glock Ges.m.b.H
Glock Ges.m.b.H. (trademarked as GLOCK) is a weapons manufacturer headquartered in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria, named after its founder, Gaston Glock. While the company is best known for its line of striker-fired polymer-framed pistols, it also produces field knives, entrenching tools and apparel.
Glock handguns are used by armed forces and law enforcement organizations worldwide, including a majority of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Glock handguns are also very popular with civilians for personal protection and practical shooting, and the company sponsors a competitive shooting team which travels worldwide. As of 2007, Glock produces more than two dozen models of handguns in seven different calibers.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 667

Hint: Container company
Answer: Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, and a cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises which is now intregrated into TUI AG, Hanover. It was formed in 1970 as a merger of two 19th century companies, Hapag, which dated from 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL), which was formed in 1856. Hapag-Lloyd was acquired in 1998 by TUI AG (Hanover) and became its fully owned subsidiary in 2002. In 2009, TUI sold a majority stake to a group of private investors.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 666

Hint: Down to the Antipodes
Answer:  The 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup
The 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the eleventh Cricket World Cup, and will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The location of the games will be evenly split, with the location of the final yet to be decided. ICC unveiled the Logo of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 after the final of Cricket World Cup 2011 on 2 April 2011.
The hosting rights were awarded at the same time as those of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, which New Zealand and Australia had originally bid to host, and the 2019 Cricket World Cup. The 2011 tournament was awarded to the four Asian Test cricket playing countries India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in a 10 to 3 vote (although Pakistan subsequently lost its hosting rights due to security concerns). The International Cricket Council were sufficiently impressed with the trans-Tasman bid that it was decided to award the next world cup to them.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 665

Hint: In news for wrong reasons.
Answer: Galleon Group
Galleon Group was one of the largest hedge fund management firms in the world before announcing its closure in October 2009. The firm was at the center of a 2009 insider trading scandal that resulted in investors pulling capital from the firm rapidly. Galleon is headquartered in New York City.
The firm was founded by Raj Rajaratnam, a former equity research analyst at Needham & Company, in 1997. Rajaratnam was arrested in October 2009 along with five others and charges with multiple counts of fraud and insider trading. He has pleaded not guilty and is currently free on a $100 million bond. He was indicted by a grand jury in December.
The firm is named for the galleon, a large sailing ship used from the 16th to 18th centuries in Europe.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 664



Answer: D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. is a global investment and technology development firm based in New York, New York whose activities center on many aspects of the intersection between technology and finance. The firm was founded by David E. Shaw, who was formerly a faculty member in the computer science department at Columbia University. The firm, through various affiliates, specializes in applying quantitative and qualitative trading strategies to hedge fund management and other investments. It makes private equity investments in early-stage and established firms involved in technology, health care, and financial services. It also acquires assets of distressed companies.

As recently as August 2008, the firm, described by Fortune in 1996 as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street," managed nearly $40 billion in aggregate capital, making it one of the world's largest hedge funds by assets under management.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 663

Hint: Luxury products
Answer: Hermès International, S.A
Hermès International, S.A., or simply Hermès is a French high fashion house established in 1837, specializing in leather, ready-to-wear, lifestyle accessories, perfumery, and luxury goods. Its logo is of a Duc carriage with horse.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 662

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Hint: Automobile
Answer: Toyota Motor Corporatio's old logo
Toyota Motor Corporation (TYO: 7203, LSE: TYT, NYSE: TM), commonly known simply as Toyota and abbreviated as TMC, is a multinational automaker headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In 2010, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 317,734 people worldwide . TMC is the world's largest automobile manufacturer by sales and production.
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first passenger car, the Toyota AA. Toyota Motor Corporation group companies are Toyota (including the Scion brand), Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino Motors, along with several "non-automotive" companies.TMC is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Super Cric Team. Its back!!!!

Congratulations to every fellow Indian and supporter of Indian cricket team for winning the World Cup.

Some of you had registered at www.supercricteam.com for the WC and, I hope, must have enjoyed it. SCT is back for IPL 4 and this time SCT is bigger and better. The winner of the IPL SCT will be given gift vouchers.

So please register at SCT and encourage your friends and colleague to do the same.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 661

Hint: Automobile
Answer: Eicher Group
Eicher Group is a conglomerate of the firms Eicher Goodearth Ltd., Eicher Ltd., Eicher Motors Ltd., Eicher International Ltd., and ECS Ltd., based in New Delhi, India. As of 1 July 2009 renamed VE Commercial Vehicles Limited It is a 50:50 joint venture with Volvo Group.
Eicher Motor is one of the prominent commercial vehicle manufacturers in India. The companies origins date back to 1948, when Goodearth Company was established for the distribution and service of imported tractors.
In 1959 the Eicher Tractor Corporation of India Private Ltd. was established, Jointly with the Gebr. Eicher company, a German tractor manufacturer. In 1960 the first tractor ever produced in India was put on the market.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 660

www.supercricteam.com is back for IPL. Have you registered your team?
Hint: Automobile
Answer:  TVS Motor Company
TVS Motor Company (BSE: 532343, NSE: TVSMOTOR) is the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India and is among the world's top ten. It is the flagship company of the parent TVS Group employing over 40,000 people with an estimated 15 million customers. It manufactures motorcycles, scooters, mopeds and auto rickshaws. It is India's only two-wheeler company to have won the Deming Prize awarded for commitment to quality control, received in 2002.
TVS Motor traces its origins back to the entrepreneurial spirit of Trichur Venkagaruswamy Sundaram Iyengar who gave up lucrative careers in the Indian Railways and in banking to set up his own business. He began with Madurai's first bus service in 1912 and founded T.V.Sundaram Iyengar and Sons Limited, a company that consolidated its presence in the transportation business with a large fleet of trucks and buses under the name of Southern Roadways Limited.[4] When he died in 1955 his sons took the company ahead with several forays in the automobile sector, including finance, insurance, manufacture of two-wheelers, tyres and components. The group has managed to run 33 companies that account for a combined turnover of nearly $3 billion.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 659

Hint: Automobile
Answer:  Honda Motor Company, Ltd.
Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (TYO: 7267) is a Japanese multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer. As of August 2008[update], Honda surpassed Chrysler as the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the United States. Honda is the sixth largest automobile manufacturer in the world.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 658


Answer: TUI AG
TUI AG (German: Touristik Union International) is a German multinational travel and tourism company headquartered in Hanover. Until 2001 it was an industrial and transportation company named Preussag AG, which in the mid-1990s decided to reinvent itself as a tourism, shipping, and logistics company. It sold off many of its industrial concerns and purchased several major travel and transportation firms.
Today it is one of the world's largest tourist firms with interests across Europe. It owns travel agencies, hotels, airlines, cruise ships and retail stores. Major subsidiaries include TUI AG Airlines, the largest holiday fleet in Europe. Its common brand TUIfly encompasses 7 airlines.
TUI AG was also one of the world's largest shipping companies, having its logistics activities bundled within Hapag-Lloyd AG and concentrated on the shipping sector. Hapag-Lloyd is no longer an operating unit of the business however, a majority stake having been sold to the Albert Ballin consortium of investors in March 2009. TUI retains a 43.3% stake in the firm and continues to wholly own and operate the cruise line Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten.