Wednesday, May 12, 2010

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

􀂙 Multipurpose vehicle (MPV) from Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has the project name Ingenio.

􀂙 Samsung camera phonesInnov8, TouchWiz, Soul and Omnia.

􀂙 Bindaaz is the dark chocolate brand from Amul.

􀂙 Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur’ is a recent book by Richard Branson.

􀂙 S&P CNX Nifty is a well diversified 50 stock index owned and managed by India Index Services and

Products Ltd. (IISL), which is a joint venture between NSE and CRISIL.

􀂙 PepsiCo launched lemon-and-lime soft drink Sierra Mist in the US in 2000 as a rival to Coca-Cola’s Sprite.

􀂙 Renzo Rosso is the founder of the Diesel clothing company. In 1978, Rosso formed the Genius Group,

which created many successful brands still widely known today, such as Katherine Hamnett, Goldie,

Martin Guy, Ten Big Boys and Diesel.

􀂙 Founded in 1895 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, OshKosh B’Gosh, Inc. has grown from a small-town

manufacturer of adult workwear into a global marketer of children’s clothing and accessories.

􀂙 It wasn’t until Miles Kimball, a local mail order firm, featured a pair of children's bib overalls in its national

catalog that sales of the item took off. In 2005 OshKosh B'Gosh joined the Carter’s family of brands.

􀂙 IBM’s new Internet-based collaboration and social networking service called Bluehouse

􀂙 Bill Me Later in the Amazon-funded online payments business acquired by eBay.

􀂙 Tata Consultancy Services was established in the year 1968. It began as the ‘Tata Computer Centre’, a

division of the Tata Group, whose main business was to provide computer services to other group

companies.

􀂙 Mail Goggles is Google’s new feature, as CNET describes, “designed to prevent you from sending stupid

e-mails in the small hours, when you’re most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot of

yourself”.

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