Cool Business Facts- Part 10

1) Appolo's Brand of Low cost , Secondary Health Care Hospitals is called “First Med".

2) Neil Foley designed Aviator collection of watches for Titan. These were designed keeping in mind War planes of World War II.

3) Bunge an agriculture products firm from USA brought DALDA Vanaspati brand from HUL.

4) Josheph Platt designed Parker's Arrow Clip.

5) India's Largest Garment Exporter is Gokuldas Exports.

6) World Gold Council is situated in London.

7) India's Laregst Export to Pakistan is Iron Ore.

8) Gaming Home Console "Revolution " belongs to Nintendo.

9) Walt Disney tied up with Archies to market its products in India.

10) John D Rockfeller Junior donated money to purchase land where UN General Assembly is built.

Cool Business Facts- Part 9

1) Gini Coefficient is used to measure Inequality of income distribution within the country.

2) Trading Floor of NYSE is called GARAGE.

3) Indian Rayons is owned by Birlas.

4) Wireless Fidelity is better known as Wi-Fi.

5) Oriflame belongs to Sweden.

6) Klaus Schwab is the Founder of World Economic Forum.

7) Indian Diamond Institute is located in Surat.

8) Madhubani style of painting is associated with Bihar.

9) Pokemon Brand is owned by Nintendo.

10) Chiang Mai Initiative is about Currency swap deals among ASEAN nations.

Cool Business Facts- Part 8

1) "Ansett" is the domestic airline of Australia.
2) India's first certified ISO 9001 Train isBhopal Express.
3) Denmark is known as “Dairy of Northern Europe”.
4) FMCG is Fast Moving Consumer Goods and FMFG is Fast Moving Financial Goods.
5) Sony TV owns Space Television(DTH service provider company).
6) 24 TIME Zones are observed throughout the world.
7) Golden Triangle connects Delhi, Jaipur and Agra.
8) Harry Potter series is distributed by Bloomsbury in UK, Scholastic in US, Raincoast in Canada and Allen & Unwin in Australia.
9) Bajaj’s R & D unit is called AHEAD.
10) Index which sums up the country's inflation and unemployment rate is called Misery Index.

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

Cool Business Facts----Part 6

1) Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity is the official Advertising agency of Indian Government.
2) Bank of India was first Indian bank to open an international branch (London, 1946).
3) Intel was earlier known as NM Electronics.
4) Dipti Naval endorsed cigarette brand MS.
5) Project code for Tata-Corus Deal was COLOR.
6) Sharp was the first company to introduce camera mobile phone.
7) Blackberry was introduced by RIM (Research In Motion).
8) Term “New Economy” includes Information Technology, Telecom & Entertainment.
9) Optical Fibre was invented by Narinder Kapiny.
10) Warren Buffet is known as ‘Oracle of Omaha’.
11) Sachin Tendulkar & Md. Azharuddin used to endorse “Luna”.
12) Linux Logo is known as Tuxy Penguin.
13) Mitsubhisi means “three diamonds”.
14) TIME magazine started by Henry Luce & Britton Haden in 1923
15) Oldest company on NYSE is Bank of New York

Cool Business Fatcs----Part 5

1) Levi Strauss sued Polo Ralph Lauren for copying pocket stitching design(Arcuate).
2) Nokia purchased a photo sharing website called Twango.
3) Historic NASDAQ Remote Bells rings at Mysore, London & Davos
4) Wallmart’s mascot is The Rollback Man.
5) Legal Blog is called Blawg.
6) Adelaide News was the first venture of Rupert Murdoch.
7) Lenovo is the new name of Legend Corporation
8) Leela Chitnis was the first Indian actress to endorse Lux.
9) Orient Fans owned by CK Birla was earlier known as Calcutta Electrical Manufacturing Company
10) Nippo Batteries was earlier known as Indo National Limited.
11) World’s First Stock Exchange was in Antwerp, Belgium
12) Prince Al-Waheed was termed as Arabian Warren Buffet by TIME magazine
13) First Legal TV commercial was for Bulova Watch Company
14) Tour de France is organized by Amaury Sports Organization.
15) Fredrik Idestam established wood-pulp mill in 1865. Later it became NOKIA.

Cool Business Facts- Part 4

How did the following companies name originated??

1) Apple Computers
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.

2) CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.CompaqThis name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

3) Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

4)Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

5) Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

6) Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.IntelBob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

7)Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

8) MicrosoftCoined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

9) Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

10) ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

11) Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

12) SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

13) Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos

Cool Business Facts- Part 3

1) Sudoku puzzle was invented by Howard Garns in Indianapolis in 1979.

2) Parle Gluco Biscuits (Parle-G) was introduced in the year 1939.

3) Canon cameras derived its name from Kwanon which refers to Buddhist Goddess of Mercy.

4) MRF tyre company began its operations as a toy balloon making unit in Chennai.

5) The Hindu, started in 1878, was a weekly newspaper till 1889.

6) John Cadbury, founder of Cadbury's chocolate, started as a coffee and tea dealer in 1824.

7) Amul ads have entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the longest running campaign.

8) Initially, Colgate toothpastes were sold in jars. The tube form came only from 1908.

9) Bisleri owes its name to founder Felice Bisleri, an Italian entrepreneur.

10) Vaseline was discovered in 1859 by Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a chemist working in the oil industry.

11) Coca cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in SPACE in July 1985.

12) Barbie doll derived its name from its creator, Ruth Handler's daughter, Barbara.

13) Dutch East India Company was the first company to issue shares on a stock exchange.

14) Faber Castle made its first pencils as early as 1761.

15) Okay is the most widely understood term in the world. The second in the list is Coca Cola!

Cool Business Facts- Part 2

1) Formula One is also known as Grand Prix racing. The "formula" in the name is a set of rules which all participants and cars must meet.

2) Bata was founded in 1894 in Zlín (Czech Republic) by Tomáš Bata.

3) Lux was launched in 1916 as a laundry soap. The name 'Lux' was chosen for its play on the word "luxury."

4) Fujifilm is the world’s largest photographic and imaging company.

5) KFC's "secret recipe" of 11 herbs and spices is marketed as one of the best-kept trade secrets.

6) The name Volkswagen means "people's car" in German.

7) The word television is created from both Greek and Latin. Tele- is Greek for "far", while -vision is from the Latin visio.

8) In June 16, 1977, Oracle was incorporated in California as Software Development Laboratories by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

9) The Panasonic brand was created from the elements "pan" meaning "all" combined with "sonic" meaning "sound".

10) In 1868, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata started a private trading firm, laying the foundation of the Tata Group.

11) Rexona was the first Deodorant to be launched in India in 1995.

12) Tim Berners-Lee created the original hypertext markup language (HTML) and many of the associated protocols such as HTTP.

13) Dr Marty Cooper made the first call on a cell phone in 1973.

14) ICICI Bank is the first Indian company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

15) All Private petroleum companies in India were nationalised in 1976.

Cool Business Facts- Part 1

1) Suzuki started making motorcycles in 1952, the first models being motorized bicycles.

2) The concept of using a credit card for purchases was invented in 1887 by Edward Bellamy.

3) Rupert Murdoch acquired Star TV from a Hong Kong company in 1993.

4) Dow Jones was founded in 1882 by reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Bergstresser.

5) Ford was launched in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors.

6) Air India was founded as Tata Airlines in 1932, a division of Tata Sons Ltd.

7) Times of India was founded on Nov. 3, 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

8) Pfizer is named after German-American cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhardt.

9) Novartis was created in 1996 from the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz.

10) Facsimile (fax) transmission was first demonstrated publicly by Bell Labs.

11) The Bombay Stock Exchange, established in 1875, is the oldest stock exchange in Asia.

12) The Britannica is the oldest English-language encyclopedia still in print.

13) Qantas was founded on Nov. 16, 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd.

14) Tata Steel was established in 1907 to set up the first iron/steel plant in Jamshedpur.

15) The name Vodafone comes from Voice data fone.