BUSINESS QUIZZING

2010-06-27T07:48:00.000-07:00

In 1980, Gautam Adani was an ordinary worker in a Mumbai diamond processing unit earning a salary

of Rs 1,000 a month. Today, Adani, 45, straddles a vast empire which boasts an annual turnover of Rs

23,000 crore. It’s a long way from his early days of struggle when he quit his diamond polishing job to

travelling around Ahmedabad on a scooter, selling plastic pipes.

SSN INSTINCTS BUSINESS QUIZ PRELIMS

2009-03-05T06:33:00.000-08:00

SSN INSTINCTS BUSINESS QUIZ PRELIMS

-------X------- hails from Moolaipozhi village in the former Tirunelveli District of TamilNadu in 1946. He received his engineering degree from PSG College of Technology in 1968 and started his career in DCM's calculator division. ln 1976 he founded a company with an investment of Rs 187,000 from the 6 other founders and added Uttar Pradesh government as a equity partner. In 1996 -------X------ founded ---Y--- in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in the name of his father. Give X & Y
• X – SHIV NADAR
• Y – Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSNCE)

Expand FUNT in the context of the current economic crisis
Financially untouchable
Which was the first fully privately owned Television channel in India when it emerged in 1993. It remains the most viewed TV channel in the world in its language and is part of Rs 16000-crore network
SUN TV

Identify
Bobby Kooka

His parents are the promoters of hitech group of companies and he studied at the Doon school, Dehradun and later at St.Stephen’s school, Chandigrah. He did his BBA from university of Colorado. Identify the person and the company in which he is the CEO.
Abhinav Bindra and Abhinav futuristics

•The first board of directors of Reserve Bank of India

Until 1993, AIR a government undertaking, was th

e only radio broadcaster in India. The government then took the initiative to privatize the radio broadcasting sector. Which was the first private FM station to be launched?
Radio Mirchi

This company's name is actually taken from a Hebrew name meaning Spring or Renewal. The Company was formerly called CGNU, and was created by a merger of Norwich Union and CGU plc in 2000. In May 2008 it became Norwich Cit

y Football Club's main sponsor. Name the company.
Aviva
X asked that its logos be removed in scenes taking place in the slums. The company, according to Danny Boyle, did not want to be associated with the poverty-stricken area, fearing that that might taint its image.
Identify X
Mercedes Benz

Identify
CPCL

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. How do u better know this as ?
DILBERT PRINCIPLE

X was a Scottish born American steel baron in the late 19th and early 20th century who later sold his steel empire to JP Morgan, leading to the formation of US Steel, and became a philanthropist. Identify X
Andrew Carnegie

A branch of this company is descended from the industrial glassmaker Boussois-Souchon-Neuvesel (BSN), which was founded by the family of Antoine Riboud. After a failed attempted takeover battle for its larger rival Saint-Gobain, Riboud transformed it into one of Europe's leading groups in the 1970s through a series of acquisitions and mergers. Which co are we talking about?
Groupe Danone

In 2005, he featured in a Chrysler Advertisment with the legendary Auto Industry veteran Lee Iacocca, wherein he gave his own version of Iacocca's famous pitchline, "If you can find a better car, buy it." as " If the ride is more fly, then you must buy " Later Iacocca confessed - " I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun." Name this person behind the clothing line " Rich & Infamous "
Snoop Dogg

In 1907 there was a great need in America for private messenger and delivery services. To helpmeet this need, an enterprising 19-year-old, borrowed $100 from a friend and established a company. James E. (“Jim”) Casey borrowed $100 from a friend and established the X in Seattle, Washington. This is currently known to us as UPS.
American Messenger Company

In many ways, the entire business of brand building in India started with Xs first ad for West end Watches.
X also advertised the now defunct gripe water brand, Ramthirth Brahmi Oil, the first indian color ad.
Identify X
Dattaraman n Co.

The Harmsworth brothers (John, Alfred & Harold) founded 3 newspapers : the Glasgow daily record, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Mirror (which was the first newspaper exclusively for women).However ,they are remembered in the world of beverages thanks to an exercise regimen using an Indian device which they popularized in Britain(by extensive advertorials in their newspapers) .What everlasting
contribution to design did they bring about?
The Perrier Bottle design was based on the Indian Clubs used by the
Harmsworth brothers for their exercise regimen

X was founded in 1897 and has been published daily ever since. X, a newyork magazine is printed in tabloid format.
Jameson, who began his journalistic career as a reporter for X while still in high school, is the editor-in-chief. Jameson purchased the then-floundering company with inheritance funds, from his recently deceased father-in-law and turned the paper into a popular success.
Identify X.
Daily Bugle, of Spiderman fame!

TOP 10 BANK SLOGANS in 2008

2009-02-04T07:40:00.000-08:00

TOP 10 BANK SLOGANS

The TIME magazine came out with the year end edition having Lists of "Top Ten" in different categories.It was interesting to find a list of "Top Ten Bank Slogans".All these taglines did their bit in reassuring people in the times of Economic turmoil.These taglines were used by the banks in the year 2008.

Washington mutal :”Whoo hoo!”

Lehman Brothers :”Where vision gets built”

AIG :”The strength to be there”

IndyMac :”You can count on us”

Capital One :”What’s in your wallet?”

World Financial Group:”No family left behind”

Morgan Stanley :”World wise”

Security Pacific Bank :”Smarter money”

Nationwide :”Protection”

T.Rowe Price :”Invest with confidence”

IIT MADRAS DOMS' SAMANVAY BUSINESS PRELIMS

2009-02-03T06:29:00.000-08:00

IITM DOMS organised their Management fest form jan 23rd to 25th.The Business quiz was hosted by CTO of TCS Mr.Anantha Krishnan.Here is a look at the questions from the prelims.

The company uses this punch line even in India “Vorsprung durch Technik”. AUDI
Identify.In 1981, Michael X co-founded a company called Innovative Market Systems. This company was later renamed as X, the surname of Michael X. The company X went on to become a USD 4.7 bn $ company with one-third of the entire market share. Michael X gave up his CEO position in 2001, in order to run for the elections (to a mayoral position), which he subsequently won. Identify X. Michael Bloomberg
The logo of which famous brand features the Visconti family's red cross and biscione (human child-bearing serpent) coat of arms emblazoned over the great door of Castello Sforzesco. Alfa Romeo
After being modified into a joint–stock company in 1991-92, this company has gone on to become the fourth largest corporation in the world. Identify the company. Gazprom
This Airliner started operations with flights to Karachi and Mumbai followed by Delhi. In the beginning, two Airbus A300 and Boeing 737-300 were leased from Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for operations. Identify this Airline operator. Emirates Airlines
I am a businessman from Texas, who is best known for seeking the office of President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. I founded EDS in 1962 and then sold the company to General Motors in 1984. If that was not enough, I also founded, in 1988, a company which has been ranked number two company in the information technology services category on its list of America's Most Admired Companies for the past two years by Fortune Magazine and is still one of the largest IT companies worldwide. Identify me. Ross Perot
Once the contract manufacturing arm of Taiwan's Acer Computer Corporation, this Corporation has come into its own as a leading manufacturer of computer peripherals and digital media equipments. After splitting off from Acer in 2001, it has begun a push to establish its own brand which is marketed under the slogan "Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life“. Identify the company. BENQ
This family is the founder of Anglo American PLC, which is the largest share holder in De Beers. As cricket players and enthusiastic supporters of the game, the current heirs maintain a cricket ground at Randjesfontein and their sponsorship of the first warm-up tour match between a team under their family name and overseas teams touring South Africa that year is a regular feature of sorts. What family are we talking about? Oppenheimer family
This company is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation. It is the world's largest producer of guided missiles and makes of missiles such as Patriot, Maverick, Sidewinder and Tomahawk. Its name literally means “Light of the gods" in Greek. What company are we talking about? Raytheon
The company's history dates back to the 1870s and includes engineering feats such as the transplantation of the Abu Simbel rock temples in Egypt to save them from the rise of the River Nile caused by the Aswan High Dam. However, the company's reputation was tarnished by World War II, when it built the Führerbunker in Berlin, scene of Adolf Hitler's suicide. Identify the company. Hotcheif
It is probably of the world’s largest environment companies and one of the first private waste management companies to get a contract in India (Chennai to be specific). Its current name is derived from Aeolus, the keeper of the winds in Greek mythology. The reference to air is heightened by the first letter of its name, which is also the first letter of the French word for the wind. Earlier it was a part of a media conglomerate Compagnie Générale des Eaux which had activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet, and video games. Identify the company. Veolia Environment
The company X was formed by Henry.M.Leland, who was one of the founders of Cadillac. In 1917, he left Cadillac to form X and named it after his long-time hero and legendary American President X. Identify X. Lincoln
This San Francisco-based company which trades on NYSE now under the symbol V raised $17.9 billion in March 2008 to complete the largest IPO in U.S. history – Name it. VISA
ES/A Purple is produced by De La Rue identity systems. What is it used for? Election Ink
Which telephone operator was the first company to launch Google’s Android based phones? Which company’s handset did they use? T Mobile, HTC
Saravana Stores has used its brand name for all its ventures except this one which started few years back.Now it is present in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and has gained considerable market share.Which Saravana Brand? Jamaai
Which Indian corporate group with revenue of approximately USD 2.4 billion has the tagline “ SOLID DRIVEN”? MURUGAPPA GROUP
This company holds the largest market share in a product category in India. The brand name of this company was first used by Romans to denote an island group off the coast of North-West Europe. Identify the brand. Britannia
A man named Israel Beer Josaphat began a continental pigeon post 1849 at Aachen, Germany, and in 1851 set up a news agency in London. In 1858 he persuaded the press to use his news telegrams, and turned it into a worldwide service. Who? REUTERS
In 1870, a chemist was experimenting with charcoal to find out if it had any inherent medicinal properties & one night he left a chuck of charcoal near to an open bottle of Iodoform accidentally. The following morning he found that the charcoal had absorbed the fumes from the bottle entirely. This led a businessman to use charcoal filtration in his process & achieve a good quality which made his product to be differentiated in it's market and he went on to mint millions of money. Which product did the businessman make? SMIRNOFF
This bank turned financial-services company was in the top 50 ranks of the Fortune Global 500 list; before going defunct in late 2008! It was finally acquired by a bank that paid 7 times what a rival bank was willing to pay. Name the company. WACHOVIA
This NYSE-listed company was founded in the late 18th century and close to 3000 other companies do business with them. It was the most (in)famous entity in the stock market crash of 1929, and is often blamed for the Great Depression. Its main building is located near the Wall Street. Which company are we talking about? NYSE
This area located on the south bank of the Haldi River, for all its popularity doesn’t have a railway connection ? Identify this place. Nandigram
This person is said to have originated the idea of free marketing wherein you sell something at a cheaper rate if it gives you successive business. He once said, ''I have done more than anyone else to change the face of mankind‘’. Who is this person ? King Camp Gillette

Try the quiz.Post your answers in the Comment box.Answers will be put up in a week's time

CEG KURUKSHETRA BIZ QUIZ PRELIMS!!!!!!

2009-01-29T22:55:00.000-08:00

For the third year in a row, renowned quiz master Mr.Gopal Kidao hosted the Kurukshetra Business quiz, in College of Engineering,Guindy.The prelims had a healthymix of questions ranging from "sitter" to "toughies".Here is a look at the questions from the prelims.

##Which cosmetic’s use was practically non-existent until the mass production of plastic shoes revealed toes for the first time in the late 1940s? Nail Polish

##This was founded by Time co-founder Henry Luce in February 1930, four months after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that marked the outset of the Great Depression. Briton Hadden, Luce's partner, wasn't enthusiastic about the idea, but Luce went forward with it after Hadden's October 15, 1929 death. Name this magazine. Fortune

##Canada-based Harlequin Enterprises has set up a subsidiary in India to print and distribute which well-known fiction brand? Mills&Boon

##There is some confusion over whether he was named after a scientist or a comic book character. In the book Rebel Code, he is quoted as saying that he thinks he was named equally for both, noting that this makes him half “Nobel-prize-winning chemist” and half “blanket-carrying cartoon character.” Who? Linus Torvalds

##This publishing company is a for-profit subisdiary of the Washington Post Company, founded in 1938 by it eponymous founder who started the business by tutoring students for the New York State Regents Exam in the basement of his Brooklyn home. The company today provides higher education programs, professional training courses, test preparation materials and other services for various levels of education. Identify this company. Kaplan

##In the 1930s, the now defunct ___ ____ company did something for the first time in the history of stock options. It issued an IPO and then gave its share underwriters the option of selling additional shares in a registered securities setting. The option could vary in size upto 15% of the original IPO. Since that time, an "over-allotment option" similar to this has been called ____ ____ in the name of the company that first did this. Fill in the blanks. Green shoe

##Duchy Originals – the natural, organic product brand which is to make an entry into India and US this year as part of its $5 billion expansion was founded by whom? Prince Charles

##Which MNC lighting company (now globally bought over by Havell's except in some markets where Osram owns it, making it the largest Indian takeover of an electric company) started in the US state of Pennsylvania, and was quite popular in Indian in the 1980s in a joint venture with an Indian company? Sylvania

##What was originally built by LA Times publisher Harry Chandler as an epic $21,000 billboard for his upscale real estate development in 1923? The Sign soon took on the role of giant marquee for a city that was constantly announcing its own gala premiere.Hollywood Sign

##In 1967 he joined the technology company of Bolt Beranek and Newman where he helped develop the TENEX operating system. His pioneering achievement was dismissed by colleagues as “Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on.” Who? Ray Tomilson,the guy who fonded E-Mail

##Which organization has its history succinctly depicted on this stamp? Kirloskar

##In 1928 "Blacksmith Hansen" and his son Peder Hansen establish Dansk Staalvindue Industri which manufactured stee

l window frames for industrial buildings.Peder Hansen later left this and together with nine other people established another company whose name was quickly abbreviated to what? VESTAS

##Which company with estimated revenues of 1 billion USD and the first or second most desired job for recent MBA graduates since 1996, has no official HQ? McKinsey

##This is the rollback man. Whose logo? Roll Back man

##He taught mathematics to Leonardo da Vinci, wrote a chess book but his fame rests on having laid down the fundamentals of ‘double entry accounting’. Who?

Luca Pacioli

##Excerpt from a 1990 work - “XY are the collective learning in the organisation, especially how to co-ordinate diverse production skills and integrate multiple streams of technologies...XY is communication, involvement and a deep commitment to working across organisational boundaries...XY does not diminish with use. Unlike physical assets, which do deteriorate over time, XY are enhanced as they are applied and shared”. XY being which term being introduced in this 1990 work for the first time?

Core Competancy

##What was started by these people? Twitter

TOP B SCHOOLS IN THE WORLD

2009-01-28T03:16:00.000-08:00

THE FINANCIAL TIMES has released its annual list of "100 TOP GLOBAL MBA".

1.University of Pennsylvania: Wharton: Wharton , USA

1.London Business School , UK

3.Harvard Business School , USA

4.Columbia Business School , USA

5.Insead ,FRANCE / SINGAPORE

6.Stanford University GSB , USA

6.IE Business School , SPAIN

8.Ceibs , CHINA

9.MIT: Sloan , USA

10.New York University: Stern ,USA

11.University of Chicago: Booth , USA

12.Iese Business School, SPAIN

13.Dartmouth College: Tuck , USA

14.IMD , SWITZERLAND

15.Indian School of Business , ISB

ISB is the only indian B-School to feature in the top 100 list. Dont be surprised by the absence of the IIM's, they did not participate.

The Indian School of Business is located in Hyderabad, India providing postgraduate programmes in Management (Master of Business Administration - MBA), post doctoral programmes, as well as executive education programmes for business executives. It was founded on December 2, 1999 by a group of Fortune 500 entrepreneurs in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh's state government. Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company worldwide and Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh played a key role in establishing the institution

ISB boasts of an illustrious board, some of the board members include Rajat Gupta, Anil Ambani , Rahul Bajaj Yogesh Deveshwar, Kiran Mazumdar–Shaw, K P Singh, Lakshmi Mittal, N R Narayana Murthy, Shiv Nadar, Deepak Parekh, K. V. Kamath, Harish Manwani.

To know more about the Lists of B-schools across the world click

http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/mba

personalities quiz two

2009-01-28T02:21:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of Personalities...just identify......I am not giving any hints to the pics just to make the quiz tougher!!!!

23.4.

5.6.7.8.9.

10.

Personalities are from different fields Consulting,Advertsing,Construction,Entertainment,Management,Publishing,Fashion etc etc

mail your answers to "calaicay@gmail.com"

CAROL.A.BARTZ-THE NEW CEO OF YAHOO!

2009-01-20T04:23:00.000-08:00

Carol A. Bartz
Carol A. Bartz (born August 29, 1948 in Winona, Minnesota) is the new CEO of Yahoo! and was previously the Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk from 1992 until 2009.After college, Bartz worked at 3M, but left after a request to transfer to the headquarters was denied. She has previously worked at Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation.Bartz became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, "Since 1992, Bartz, 56, has transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders."She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk's "3F" or "fail-fast forward" concept -- the idea that you engineer a company to fail in certain missions, to be resilient to failure, and to respond to it by overcoming quickly.On January 13, 2009, Bartz was named the CEO of Yahoo!, succeeding co-founder Jerry Yang.She serves on the boards of directors of Intel, Cisco Systems, NetApp, and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science.

TOP TEN INFLUENTIAL TAGLINES

2009-01-20T03:25:00.000-08:00

Lets have a look at the "TOP TEN INFLUENTIAL U.S TAGLINES"

1. "Got milk? " (1993) California Milk Processor Board

2. "Don’t leave home without it " (1975) American Express

3. "Just do it" (1988) Nike

4. "Where’s the beef?" (1984) Wendy’s

5. "You’re in good hands with Allstate." (1956) Allstate Insurance

6. "Think different" (1998) Apple Computer

7. "We try harder" (1962) Avis

8. "Tastes great, less filling" (1974) Miller Lite

9. "Melts in your mouth, not in your hands" (1954) M&M Candies

10. "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking" (1956) Timex

BIZ FUNDA ONE

2009-01-19T03:54:00.000-08:00

BIZ FUNDA ONE

A)Ingredients: Benzophenone-3, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate,Octyldodecanol, Candelilla Wax, Vegetable Oil, Polyisobutene, Isopropyl Myristate, Carnauba Wax, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Avocado Oil, Beeswax, Jojoba Seed Oil, Shea Butter, Ethylhexyl, Methoxycinnamate, Ozokerite, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Butylparaben, Propylparaben: Castor Seed Oil, Silica, Talc, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Mica (CI 77019), Titanium Dioxide,Iron Oxides, Red 6 (CI 15850), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Red 22 Lake (CI 45380), Red 28 Lake (CI 45410), Red 30 Lake (CI 73360), Red 33 Lake (CI 17200), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Yellow 6 Lake (CI 15985), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163).............IDENTIFY THE PRODUCT:)....

B)The following ad campaign was launched by Chemical Bank in the US in 1969 "On September 2, we'll open at nine and never close again." This was actually the punch line for a particular technology/product launch. What?

C)This newspaper started in 1888 as a four page weekly published every Saturday and became a daily only 40 years later. Identify.

D)X is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. Rose first developed the character in 1985 on a napkin in a restaurant. X was licensed to Y in the 1980s, but the character did not receive much usage or popularity until the early 1990s on numerous products, particularly stationery. He reappeared in the 2000s and is currently used on cans and advertising for Z in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, the UK, Ireland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and India.
X has been licensed to Y for their Z and Slice brands. Identify X,Y and Z.

E)In the late 1960’s Honda started to invade the US and UK markets with its motorcycles. The British manufacturers failed to recognize an important innovation in the Honda motorcycles and were so slow to respond that Honda soon displaced them as market-leader. Which innovation?

F)The concept dates back to 6500 years ago in Greece when women used it. Initially known as aspodesmos or mastodenton it was just a band of cloth that was used. The first prototype was patented in 1859 by Henry Lesher of New York to ‘give a symmetrical rotundity’. But it was Herminie Cadolle of France who made the first modern design in 1889. The history of what is being discussed?

ANSWERS: A)Lipstick B)First ATM C)MALAYALA MANORAMA D)FIDO,PEPSI,7UP E)Electric Starters F)BRA

Faces of "SATYAM"

2009-01-19T01:35:00.001-08:00

THE FACES OF "SATYAM"

THE FOUNDER:

Byrraju Ramalinga Raju (born September 16, 1954)
He did his B.Com at Andhra Loyola College,Vijayawada and received an MBA degree from Ohio University.
Raju founded Satyam in 1987 after venturing earlier into other businesses such as construction and textiles.

THE SATYAM'S EX-BOARD:

Krishna Palepu is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development, at the Harvard Business School.

Prof. Mendu Rammohan Rao is the former Dean of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.
He has a PHD in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has a Master in Engineering and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.He has held various positions at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B).

Vinod Dham completed his undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.In 1971, after graduation, he joined a Delhi-based semiconductor company called Continental Devices. In 1975, he left this job and joined University of Cincinnati to pursue a masters degree in Electrical Engineering.After completing his masters degree in 1977, he joined NCR Corporation at Dayton, Ohio. He then joined Intel, and started working on the Pentium chip.
He is called the "Father of Pentium" for his role in the development of the Pentium processor.

THE INTERIM CEO
RAM MYNAMPATI RAMA RAJU,brother of Ramalinga Raju

THE TAINTED AUDITING FIRM
PRICE WATER COOPERS

BIZ QUIZZES IN CHENNAI !!!!!!

2009-01-17T07:02:00.000-08:00

IIT MADRAS SAARAANG 09:

BIZ QUIZ Prelims:

Date-23 rd Jan

Timings- 9am to 11am

venue-PhLt,ChLt

BIZ QUIZ Finals:

Date-24th Jan

Timings-9am to 12 am

Venue:ICSR main audi

CEG KURUKSHETRA 09:

BIZ QUIZ Prelims&FINALS:

Date-23 rd Jan

Timings- 20:00-23:30

venue-Vivekanda Audi,CEG Anna Univ

IIT DOMS SAMANVAY 09:

BIZ QUIZ Prelims&FINALS:

Date-25 th Jan

Timings- 13:00-15:00

venue-MRC,Central Library,IIT Madras

BIG MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN 2008

2009-01-17T05:36:00.000-08:00

Lets have a look at the mergers and acquisitions that happenned in 2008....an India specific view

ACQUIRER: Daiichi Sankyo
TARGET: Ranbaxy
SECTOR: Healthcare
VALUE($Mn): 4,506.31
STAKE: 60.63%

ACQUIRER: ONGC
TARGET: Imperial energy PLC
SECTOR: Oil&Gas
VALUE($Mn): 2,800.00
STAKE: 100.00%

ACQUIRER: NTT DOCOMO
TARGET: TATA TELESERVICES
SECTOR: TELECOM
VALUE($Mn): 2,7000
STAKE: 26%

ACQUIRER: HDFC bank
TARGET: Centurion Bank of Punjab
SECTOR: Banking
VALUE($Mn): 2,377.50
STAKE: 100%

ACQUIRER: TATA Motors
TARGET: Jaquar & land rover
SECTOR: Automotive
VALUE($Mn): 2,300.00
STAKE: 100%

ACQUIRER: Telenor Asa
TARGET: Unitech Wireless
SECTOR: Telecom
VALUE($Mn): 1,360.00
STAKE: 60%

ACQUIRER: GMR Infra
TARGET: InterGen NV
SECTOR: Power & Energy
VALUE($Mn): 1,100.00
STAKE: 50%

ACQUIRER: TATA Chemicals
TARGET: General Chemical Industrial Products
SECTOR: Plastic & chemicals
VALUE($Mn): 1,005.00
STAKE: 100%

ACQUIRER: Emirates Telecom
TARGET: Swan Telecom
SECTOR: Telecom
VALUE($Mn): 900
STAKE: 45%

ACQUIRER: HCL technologies
TARGET: Axon Group plc
SECTOR: IT & ITES
VALUE($Mn): 749.7
STAKE: 100%

FIVE MAD BUSINESS BLUNDERS

2009-01-02T06:05:00.000-08:00

Blunderer 1: Seattle Computer Products
Blunder 1: Sale of the DOS operating system

Back in 1980, Tim Paterson, a 24-year-old programmer at Seattle Computer Products, spent four months writing the 86-DOS operating system. Meanwhile, Bill Gates was on a hunt for operating software that Microsoft could license to IBM; Big Blue had the money and factories to build computers, but not the operating system to run them. Gates bought the DOS system for a pittance: $50,000. When Seattle Computer figured out what it had let slip through its fingers, it accused Microsoft of swindling the company by not revealing that IBM was its customer; Microsoft settled by compensating Seattle Computer an additional $1 million in 1986. Big deal--the market for the rest of Microsoft's cool software had been born, and there was no looking back. Arguably, this key deal ultimately propelled Microsoft to software domination--and its current $253 billion valuation.

Size Of Blunder: $253 billion

Blunderer 2: Time Warner Shareholders
Blunder 2: The merger of AOL and Time Warner

On Feb. 11, 2000, Internet portal America Online, then valued at $108 billion, swallowed media stalwart Time-Warner (worth $111 billion) for $164 billion in an all-stock deal. AOL owned 55% of the new, combined company; Time-Warner, 45%. Then came the tech wreck of 2001, followed by the rise of stiff competitors Yahoo! and Google. As cultures clashed and the stock price tanked, the company in 2002 reported a one-time write-off of $99 billion--at the time, the largest corporate loss ever reported. At its nadir, the firm boasted a meager market cap of $48 billion--$171 billion less than at the time of the merger. Time Warner is now worth about $53 billion.

Size Of Blunder: $196 billion

Blunderer 3: Xerox
Blunder 3: Inability to capitalize real big ideas

In the early 1970s, Xerox developed world-changing computer technology, including the mouse and the graphical user interface. (Modern GUIs include Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.) One of the devices was called the Xerox Alto, a desktop personal computer that Xerox never bothered to market. (Who would want something like that?) A decade later, several Apple employees, including Steve Jobs, visited the Xerox PARC research and development facility for three days in exchange for $1 million in Apple's still-privately held stock. That educational field trip was well worth the price of admission (Apple stock now worth $3.5 billion), given that it helped Jobs build a company now worth $110 billion. In the late 1980s, Xerox sued Apple for using GUI technology in its Macintosh computer, but the case was dismissed--the statute of limitations on the dispute had passed.

Size Of Blunder: $107 billion

Blunderer 4: Enron Executives
Blunder 4: Greed and deception

The now infamous Houston-based energy company created offshore entities to hide huge losses--maneuvers that even a careful read of its opaque financial statements could hardly detect. Analysts turned sour on the company in the summer of 2001; Enron filed for bankruptcy before year's end. From its peak market cap of $78 billion, the equity is now worthless, and key executives--including Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Skilling and Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, are doing jail time on charges including securities fraud and insider trading.

Size Of Blunder: $93 billion

Blunderer 5: The World's Central Banks
Blunder 5: Global economic upheaval

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his counterparts across the globe have the power to jump-start or derail entire economies by cranking the credit spigot open or closed. Rubert Mundell, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in economics, has argued that "bungled monetary policy in the 1920s and 1930s caused chronic deflation [falling prices] and destabilized the world," writes author Charles Wheelan in his book Naked Economics. Mundell's argument: "'Had the price of gold been raised in the late 1920s, or, alternatively, had the major central banks pursued policies of price stability instead of adhering to the gold standard, there would have been no Great Depression, no Nazi revolution, and no World War II.'" Those are fighting words--let's hope Bernanke and company don't earn a spot on this list.

Size Of Blunder: Our calculator just broke. phew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

INDIA'S TOP 20 RICHEST INDIVIDUALS

2009-01-02T04:21:00.000-08:00

Here is a compilation of Top twenty richest indians along with their Brief profiles!!!!!!

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Rank(company name) (Networth $million) [age] Location

1 Mukesh Ambani (RELIANCE INDUSTRIES) 20,800 [51] Mumbai
2 Lakshmi Mittal (ARCELOR MITTAL) 20,500 [58] London
3 Anil Ambani (ADAG) 12,500 [49] Mumbai
4 Sunil Mittal (BHARTI AIRTEL) 7,900 [51] Delhi
5 Kushal Pal Singh (DLF) 7,800 [77] Delhi
6 Shashi & Ravi Ruia (ESSAR) 7,600 [64] Mumbai
7 Azim Premji (WIPRO) 7,000 [63] Bangalore
8 Kumar Birla (ADTHIYA BIRLA GROUP) 5,000 [41] Mumbai
9 Adi Godrej (GODREJ) 4,000 [66] Mumbai
10 Gautam Adani (ADANI GROUP) 3,900 [46] Ahmedabad
11 Dilip Shanghvi (SUN PHARMA) 3,100 [53] Mumbai
12 Savitri Jindal (JINDAL STEEL) 2,900 [59] Delhi & Hisar
13 Malvinder&Shivinder Singh (RANBAXY) 2,800 [36] Delhi
14 Anil Agarwal (VEDANTHA RESOURCES) 2,400 [55 ] London
15 Shiv Nadar (HCL) 2,200 [63 ] Delhi
16 Micky Jagtiani (LANDMARK GROUP) 2,000 [57] Dubai
17 Indu Jain (BENNETT & COLEMAN LTD) 1,800 [72] Delhi
18 Cyrus Poonawalla (Pharma industry)) 1,600 [67] Pune
19 Uday Kotak (KOTAK GROUP) 1,550 [49] Mumbai
20 Chandru Raheja (CHANDRA RAHEJA GROUP) 1,500 [ 68] Mumbai

Funda - 3

2008-12-31T04:50:00.000-08:00

X is a role in party-based politics whose primary purpose is to ensure control of the formal decision-making process in a parliamentary legislature. Xs are party 'enforcers', who typically offer both inducements and punishments to party members. In modern times, most Xs are concerned primarily with ensuring a desired attendance for an important vote.

Answers to Funda 1:

1. The Long Tail

2. Drink the Kool - Aid

Funda - 2

2008-12-30T11:17:00.000-08:00

__________is an inducement, using maximum incentives and financial benefits, for an older worker to take "voluntary" early retirement.

It is a lucrative financial package offered an employee who is being involuntarily terminated.

Funda - 1

2008-12-27T12:55:00.000-08:00

1.The phrase The X (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article to describe the niche strategy of businesses, such as Amazon.com or Netflix, that sell a large number of unique items, each in relatively small quantities.

2.The term is derived from the 1978 cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, persuaded his followers to move to____ Jonestown. Late in the year he ordered his followers to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Flavor Aid laced with potassium cyanide. (Those unable, such as infants, and those unwilling to comply received involuntary injections). An earlier usage than 1987 can be attested at least as early as 1982 in the film "The Slumber Party Massacre" by Amy Holden Jones. In the scene where Valerie 'Val' Bates prepares Kool-Aid, she offers a glass to her sister and says "As the famous Jim Jones once said: 'should have been X".

PERSONALITIES QUIZ

2008-12-26T13:36:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of personalities. Identify them

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Leave in your answers as comments.....

Company Name Abbreviations!!!!!

2008-12-25T22:37:00.000-08:00

Lets take a look at the expansions of different Company names.We come across these abbreviations every day but seldom do we introspect so much to find what exactly these Initials stand for.Here is a list of ten interesting initial expansions!!!!!

Japan Victor Company

Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.

Southern Pacific Railroad INTernal Communications.

James Bullough Lansing,named after the founder

Nippon Electric Company.

Tokyo Denki Kagaku (Tokyo Electronics and Chemicals).

Thomas Nationwide Transport

High Tech Computer Corporation

Hindustan Computers Ltd

Today China Lion. Derived from literal translation of "今日中国雄狮" from Chinese to English.

We hope you guys liked this post!!!!! keep visiting for interesting stuffs!!!!Next Up in a couple of days are the review of AIMA All India National Finals and "BUSINESS PERSONALITIES" Quiz!!!!!!

Logo Quiz set 1

2008-12-25T11:32:00.000-08:00

Hey there folks.

Thank you for the overwhelming response for the first set of questions. Well, we are following that up with a logo quiz.

Ten Logos, gimme the companies/brands. Post your answers as comments.

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ANSWERS.....1.3 com 2.World bank 3.Airbus 4.Avantha thapar 5.Thysenkrupp 6.Newscorp 7.Buick 8.Proton 9.Llyod tsb 10.Huawei

SQC Business Quiz

2008-12-23T22:29:00.000-08:00

No fooling around with useless content . We get right away with a Biz quiz . Questions of the Anna University-TVS Students Quality Club Biz Quiz .

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1.*He received his premedical degree from the prestigious Madras Christian College and his medical degree from Stanley Medical College, both located in Chennai, India. He is a trained cardiologist with international experience. He set up the first chain of corporatized Hospitals in Chennai starting from 1982. Who is he?

2. In the largest acquisition by an Indian Technology services firm, which Indian company has made a Rs.3269 crore cash offer to acquire the UK based Axon Group Plc.?

3. *“Meet Or Delete” a social networking site is operated by HP along with which other media major?

4. This was the first Indian movie of which Singapore Airlines bought rights to show on its planes. Name it.

5. *This manufacturing company received award for increasing shareholder value in February 2008. This auto giant withdrew its bid for a Maruthi project following a change in management at its headquarters. What is this company?

6. Tab, Mr. Pibb, OK, Minute Maid, Fruitopia and Mellow Yellow are brands associated with which company?

7. Name the Indian company that features as a top ranker on multimedia guru Robi Roncarelli’s list of global animation making movies like Sinbad?

8. If one buys an Onida TV, one would be doing business with which company?

9. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Zaheer Khan, apart from being Indian cricketers, also have a common business domain. What do they own? Name their establishments too.

10. Name the company which holds the distinction of being the only Private Sector company in India to hold several of its Annual General Meetings in stadiums.

11. The first was built with borrowed wood near Pasadena by two brothers, who wanted to pursue a career in Hollywood. There is one at the North Pole, and a floating one on a steamer at St. Louis. What are we talking about? .

12. Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked in computer operations staff at Stanford University, later joined by Richard Troiano, founded this company in 1984.This company’s first two CEO’s are John Morgridge and John Chambers. The company was a 2002-03 recipient of the Ron Brown Award. Name this company which also bought IBM’s network business?

13. Ja-Ri Corporation was the original multi-level marketing distributorship for Nutrilite nutritional products, founded by Richard M. DeVos and his childhood friend Jay Van Andel in 1950s in a garage. With what name this company is now known as?

14. * In 2008, this company launched iMobile, a comprehensive Mobile banking solution. iMobile is considered to be a breakthrough innovation in Indian Banking which allows a customer to do all possible transactions through a GPRS-enabled mobile phone. Name this first Indian company to be listed on big board at New York Stock Exchange.

15. HIT Entertainment, Inc. holds the Co pyrights for the world’s largest selling copyrighted book. Which one?

16. What toy, first introduced at the Nuremberg Toy Show in 1979, sold over 100 million units by 1982?

17. * This company began manufacturing televisions and telecommunications equipment, demonstrating it’s potential and future business area. On incurring heavy losses, this company concentrated 100% on Healthcare Business group Started Sales and Service Support for PIX and re branded the Service operations under "SURE CARE" brand .Which is this Indian company that was also the first to issue American Depository Receipts?

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19. * This company has produced numerous business leaders for corporate India. It is referred to as a 'CEO Factory' in the Indian press for the same reasons. Its leadership building potential was recognized when it was ranked 4th in the Hewitt Global Leadership Survey 2007. Which is this first Indian company to set up a website exclusively to scout human assets, facilitate cross border recruitments etc?

20. * Which company did Nestle join forces with to develop the international market for “ready-to-drink” tea and coffee, now significant only in Japan?

21. This company is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on 24 February 1982.It was predominantly a vendor of technical workstations, competing successfully as a low-cost vendor during the Workstation Wars of the 1980s. It now has shifted its hardware product line to emphasize servers and storage.Scott McNealy is associated with this company. Identify this company?

22. * The Wall Street Journal has coined a term which means public confession as a form of therapy. The coinage of this term bears testimony of the extreme popularity of this person and his/her mode of dealing with personal pain.What’s the term called?

23. Which brand of shirts gets its name from the fact that the first batch after production was over dyed?

24. At Stanford, he was inspired by entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy eventually deciding to become one himself. Instead of pursuing a Ph.D. after his Masters, he decided to join Apple in 1991.Name this Indian who is the man behind free e-mail service.

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