Friday, September 30, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 840

Hint: Car rental.
Answer: National Car Rental
National Car Rental is a rental car company based in Clayton, Missouri. National was founded by 24 independent rental car agents on August 27, 1947. It has grown from 60 locations in the United States in 1947 to over 2000 locations worldwide as of 2005.
National is owned by Enterprise Holdings, which also owns Alamo Rent a Car and Enterprise Rent A Car.
On August 1, 2007 Enterprise Rent-A-Car assumed control of Vanguard Automotive Group. It was purchased from Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 839

Hint: Jewellery
Answer: Tanishq
Tanishq is a prominent jewellery brand of India. It pioneered the concept of branded jewellery and ornaments in India. It is a division of Titan Industries Limited, a company promoted by the Tata Group, one of India's largest conglomerates. The name Tanishq contains the word "Nishk" (meaning gold coin or necklace in Sanskrit), although the 'k' has been modified into a 'q'.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 837

Hint: High security printing press
Answer:  De La Rue plc
De La Rue plc (LSE: DLAR) is a British security printing, papermaking and cash handling systems company headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire. It also has a factory on the Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, and other facilities at Loughton, Essex and Bathford, Somerset. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 836


Hint: Engineers
Answer:  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, read I-Triple-E) is a non-profit professional association headquartered in the United States that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence. It has more than 400,000 members in more than 160 countries, about 45% of whom reside outside the United States.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 832

Hint: Airlines
Answer: Asiana Airlines Inc.
Asiana Airlines Inc. (formerly Seoul Airlines) is one of South Korea's two major airlines, along with Korean Air. Asiana has its headquarters in Asiana Town in Osoe-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. The airline has its domestic hub at Gimpo International Airport and its international hub at Incheon International Airport.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 831

Hint: Airlines
Answer: Oman Air
Oman Air is the national airline of Oman. Based on the grounds of Muscat International Airport in Muscat, it operates scheduled domestic and international passenger services, as well as regional air taxi and charter flights. Its main base is Muscat International Airport. Oman Air is a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organization. As of 1 March 2010, Oman Air has become the first airline in the world to offer both mobile phone calling, SMS,Wi-Fi Internet services on selected routes.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 830

Hint: Packaging
Answer: Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak is a multinational food processing and packaging company of Swedish origin. It was founded in 1951 in Lund, Sweden, by Ruben Rausing and Erik Ã…kerlund. It was Erik Wallenberg who invented the tetrahedral package, today known as Tetra Classic. The company is part of the Tetra Laval group which also includes Sidel - who specialise in PET bottles- and DeLaval, a producer of dairy farming machinery and food processing equipment.
Ruben Rausing's sons Hans and Gad Rausing ran Tetra Pak from 1954 until 1985, taking the company from a seven-person concern to one of Sweden's largest corporations. At his death in 1983, Ruben Rausing was Sweden's richest person.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 829

Hint: Probably the world's largest knowledge repository.
Answer: The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books.
The Library of Congress was built by Congress in 1800, and was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 828

Hint: Comics




Answer: Amar Chitra Katha
Amar Chitra Katha is one of India's largest selling comic book series, with more than 90 million copies sold in 20 Indian languages. Founded in 1967, the imprint has more than 400 titles that retell stories from the great Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore, and fables in a comic book format. It was created by Anant Pai, and published by India Book House. In 2007, the imprint and all its titles were acquired by a new venture called ACK Media.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 826

Hint: Clothes
Answer: Under Armour
Under Armour is an American sports clothing and accessories company. The company is a supplier of a wide range of sportswear and casual apparel mainly focusing on hi-tech sportswear for professional athletes. It has now broadened its horizons and Under Armour began offering footwear in 2006, it continues to expand its offerings. In Fall of 2010, Under Armour began offering its first line-up of basketball shoes.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 823

Hint: Retail Chain
Answer: Westside
Westside is a chain of retail stores. Trent is the retail arm of the Tata group. Started in 1998, Trent operates Westside, one of the many growing retail chains in India based in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 822

Hint: Bank
Answer: Export-Import Bank of India
Export-Import Bank of India is the premier export finance institution of the country, set up in 1982 under the Export-Import Bank of India Act 1981.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 821

Hint: Reward points.
Answer: Payback

Payback is a loyalty card scheme launched in 2000 by Metro AG in Germany and has the largest market share. It had a turnover of 190 Million Euros in 2007.
In 2010, I-mint, India's leading rewards programme was taken over by Payback and as of 1 Jul 2011, I-mint has been rebranded as Payback India, thus formally launching this loyalty programme in India.



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Friday, September 9, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 819

Hint: camera
Answer: Canon Inc.
Canon Inc. is a Japanese multinational corporation that specialises in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, camcorders, photocopiers, steppers and computer printers. Its headquarters are located in ÅŒta, Tokyo, Japan.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 818

Hint: Hotel
Answer: Crowne Plaza
Crowne Plaza is a chain of full service, upscale hotels catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental and Holiday Inn and operates in 52 countries, usually located in city centers, resorts, or near major airports.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 817

Hint: Made an Ambani brother very happy recently.
Answer: The Export-Import Bank of the United States
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by Congress in 1945, for the purposes of financing and insuring foreign purchases of United States goods for customers unable or unwilling to accept credit risk. The mission of the Bank is to create and sustain U.S. jobs by financing sales of U.S. exports to international buyers.

Recently gave a loan of $600mio to ADAG group.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 816

Hint: Consumer products
Answer: Balsara Hygiene.
Makers of Promise, Babool and Meswak brands of toothpaste. Balsara sold its personal hygiene business to Dabur.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 815

Hint: Content Delivery System
Answer: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines flight 11 which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001.
Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist.
Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent with connotations of insightful or wise or skillful. The company's headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 814

Hint: Pharma company
Answer: Merck & Co., Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township. The company was established in 1891 as the United States subsidiary of the German company now known as Merck KGaA. In common with many other German assets in the United States, Merck & Co. was confiscated in 1917 during World War I and then set up as an independent company. Currently, it is one of the seven largest pharmaceutical companies in the world both by market capitalization and revenue.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 813

Hint: Satellite communication
Answer: Iridium Communications Inc.
Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a company, based in McLean, VA, United States which operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 66 active satellites used for worldwide voice and data communication from hand-held satellite phones and other transceiver units. The Iridium network is unique in that it covers the whole Earth, including poles, oceans and airways. The company derives its name from the chemical element iridium. The number of satellites projected in the early stages of planning was 77, the atomic number of iridium, evoking the metaphor of 77 electrons orbiting the nucleus.
The satellites are frequently visible in the night sky as satellite flares, a phenomenon typically observed as short-lived bright flashes of light.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 812

Hint: Safeguard your machine.
Answer: AVG Technologies
AVG Technologies (formerly named Grisoft) is a privately held Czech company formed in 1991 by Jan Gritzbach and Tomas Hofer, with corporate offices in Europe and the United States. The company specializes in computer security software.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Logo Quiz of the Day : 811

Hint: Chicken
Answer: The VH Group
The VH Group is INR 3 billion in Market cap and INR 8 billion in revenues. The group is highly diversified with interests in poultry, processed food, animal vaccines, pharma etc.
The V H Group is owned and controlled by the family of Dr B.V. Rao, who founded the company in 1971. His daughter, Anuradha Desai, serves as chairperson whilst his sons, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao both sit on the board.
The Group owns a controlling stake in English Premier League football Club Blackburn Rovers F.C having bought 99.9% of the clubs shares in November 2010 through a subsidiary, Venky's London Limited, in a deal worth £23 million.