Saturday, May 10, 2008

Cool Business Facts- Part7

1) Name of the building where BSE operates is Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers
2) BanCafe is a chain run by collaboration of Barista & ABN-AMRO
3) Gateway of India was built by Gammon(Bombay) Pvt. Ltd.
4) SANYO means “three oceans”
5) MRF is an abbreviation for Madras Rubber Factory
6) TIPS is an abbreviation for TIme Promotion Services
7) Tata Airlines became Air India in 1946
8) IBM is known as “Big Blue” & Kodak is known as “Big Yellow”
9) IBM was earlier known as Hollerith Machine Company
10) Term Industrial Revolution was coined by Arnold Toynbee
11) Farokh Engineer was the first Indian Cricketer to do an advertisement(Brylcream)
12) HDI(Human Development Index) was formulated by Mehboob Ul Haq(Pakistan)
13) ATMs started in 1962
14) ICICI was the first Indian bank to offer Internet Banking
15) Reader’s Digest was started by De Whitt Wallace in 1922

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