Identify these 2 Italian designers, known all over the world for their, well, designs and banter?

• “In 1833, shopkeeper Marcus Samuel, later 1st Viscount Bearsted, founder of Shell, decided to expand his London business. He sold antiques, but now added oriental shells. He aimed to capitalise on a fashion for using them in interior design. His instinct was right - such was the demand that Samuel quickly began importing shells from the Far East, laying the foundations for his import/export business.

• In the late 1800s, Marcus and Sam Junior commissioned a fleet of steamers to carry oil in bulk, using for the first time the Suez Canal. They also set up bulk oil storage at ports in the Far East and contracted with Bnito, a Russian group of producers controlled by the Rothschilds, for the long-term supply of kerosene.

• Their strategy was high-risk: if news of their operations got out they would be squeezed out by Rockefeller’s dominant Standard Oil. In 1892, with the maiden voyage of the first bulk tanker, the “Murex”, through the Suez Canal the Samuels had achieved a revolution in oil transportation. Bulk transport substantially cut the cost of oil by enormously increasing the volume that could be carried. The Samuel brothers initially called their company The Tank Syndicate but in 1897 renamed it the Shell Transport and Trading Company.”

• During WW2, this author worked for this renowned company of Anglo-Dutch origins

• It is headquartered in Den Haag, Netherlands• Its history is as follows

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• X products carry the image of an elderly African-American named Frank Brown and has been associated with X for last 70 years. He was Gordon L Harwell, a supplier of X to the US armed forces in WWII who chose this face for the brand to expand its product in US. As a part of advertisement to see Brown popularity, he was promoted to the chairman of the board in the company. Id which brand is this ?

• X was originally founded in Sweden by two frustrated music lovers having its headquarter in Berlin. The founders initially aspired to allow musicians to share recordings with each other, but the concept later transformed into a full publishing tool that also allowed musicians to distribute their music tracks. The Government of Turkey blocked its access in 2014 when several phone call conversations were leaked of Turkish Prime Minister on X. Id what I am talking about?

• Think EDM artists and their most loved music platform

• In 2012, a petition was created on the White House website through a campaign "We The People" asking to end the ban on the import and sale of X in the United States. However the petition failed to meet the required number of signatures and was therefore declined. For what the petition was filed ?

• The word used in the world of Business comes from the word Bulla which is a rounded seal used by the Pope to seal or to authenticate a document known as Papal Bull. Which word comes from this?

• The motto of this brand is "The Best is never too good" which was kept to keep its employees never to skimp on quality and strongly believed in it since its inception. They were struggling with some technical problem in their products by 1958 until they started using "Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene" material in its products. Id which brand I am talking about which is recently ranked as World most powerful brand replacing Ferrari by a world’s leading brand valuation consultancy company 'Brand Finance' ?Have a look at the questions below

• It is also the worlds largest tyre manufacturer

• The T. & A. X Company was founded in 1894 in Zlín, Moravia, (then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the Czech Republic) by Tomáš Baťahis brother Antonín and his sister Anna, whose family had been cobblers for generations. The company employed 10 full-time employees with a fixed work schedule and a regular weekly wage, a rare find in its time.

• It was called the shoemaker to the world in WW1• The founder died in 1932 in a plane crash

• Yamaha was established in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited  in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture and was incorporated on October 12, 1897. The company's origins as a musical instrument manufacturer is still reflected today in the group's logo—a trio of interlocking tuning forks

• In 1989, Yamaha shipped the world's first CD recorder.

• Founded by the stationer Claus-Johannes Voss, the banker Alfred Nehemias and the engineer August Eberstein in 1906, the company began as the Simplo Filler Pen company producing up-market pens in the Schanzen district of Hamburg. Their first model was the Rouge et Noir in 1909 followed in 1910 by the pen that was later to give the company its new name, Montblanc.

• The company was acquired by Dunhill in 1977, following which lower price pens were dropped and the brand was used on a wide range of luxury goods other than pens

Meet Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of something that could’ve changed our daily lives.

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• A particular word/term is used for such portraits or art form in mid 18th century which derives from the name of a French Finance Minister who took severe economic measure to cope with credit crisis in late 1750's. And because of several austerity measure his name became synonymous with the anything done or made cheaply specially for these portraits. Id what is the term named after this Fin. Minister ?

• is a Dutch diversified technology company headquartered in Amsterdam with primary divisions focused in the areas of electronics, healthcare and lighting. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world and employs around 105,000 people across more than 60 countries

• The Philips Company was founded in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of a modest, empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892. This first factory has been adapted and is used as a museum.

•  The small Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach is known as the town of bent necks, due to a sibling rivalry that ended up as a corporate rivalry.Why the nick name given to this town?

• It doesn't matter where you live in this world, this company will soon enable to "Crowdsource" your next vacation, identify the logo.

• Founded by Brian Chesky• Chesky believes the best way to improve his

service is to use a "eating your own dog food" method, which means using Airbnb himself. Since 2010, Chesky has not owned a home

Connect, and why is it in a business quiz?

• X is an Indian-born, British-based business magnate, philanthropist, and Labour politician. In 1996 he became a life peer, sitting in the House of Lords as a Labour member with the title Baron of Marylebone in the City of Westminster

• X founded the Caparo Group in 1968, which is now one of the leading UK manufacturers of steel products.

• X is on the Sunday Times Rich List as the 38th richest person in Britain

• Which ecommerce giant has roped in advertising agency TDI International as its first official channel partner in India?

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• 3. X began to develop a business as a young boy, selling matches to neighbors from his bicycle. From matches, he expanded to selling fish, Christmas tree decorations, seeds, and later ballpoint pens and pencils.He was all of 17 years when he founded Y.

• As of June 2015, Y owns and operates 353 stores in 46 countries. The company is responsible for approximately 1% of world commercial-product wood consumption, making it one of the largest users of wood in the retail sector.

• The company that was founded is named after the initials of his name and his family village.Id the company or the founder.

• The X Group is a Mumbai based business conglomerate in India with interests in construction, real estate, textiles, engineering goods, home appliances, shipping, publications, power, and biotechnology. X is regarded as "one of India's most valuable private enterprises". The promoters of the group are also the largest individual shareholders in Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group.The company is known for building some of Mumbai's landmarks around the Fort area, including the Hong Kong Bank, Grindlays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Reserve Bank of India building, Bombay Stock Exchange building and Taj Intercontinental.

•. X is a pop-economics and marketing culture term which refers to the increase in the sales of a product when the price has been increased. The rationale is that consumers often equate price with quality. It derives its name from a very famous company which was struggling back in the early part of the 20th century.• Famous for dipsomaniacs, at least.

• X was born in Bombay in 1783. He was orphaned at an early age and due to lack of a formal education set off to China to participate in the opium trade at age of 16. X was known by the nickname "Mr. Bottlewalla" due to his business in the manufacture and sale of bottles. X's services were first recognised by the British Empire in 1842 by the bestowal of a knighthood and in 1858 by the award of a baronetcy. These were the very first distinctions of their kind conferred by Queen Victoria upon a British subject in India.

• The origins of this word can be traced back to Jonathan Swift’s book “Gulliver’s Travels”. It refers to a race of brutish, human like creatures who Gulliver encounters on his journey. We know this word because of a famous internet company that shares the name.

• Here’s an easy one : Who is the world’s youngest self made billionaire?

These 2 towers happen to be the headquarters of Deutsche bank, in Frankfurt

Name the 2 towers

• This bank classifies its clients into three categories and the maximum allowed loan sums will be based on the category:

• Shishu : Allowed loans up to Rs.50,000.• Kishore : Allowed loans up to Rs.5,00,000• Tarun : Allowed loans up to Rs.10,00,000• The bank initially functioned as a non-banking

financial company• Name this bank.

• .In the early 1900s while India was still under the British rule, one of the strongest manifestations of mass awakening was the desire to patronize all that was 'Swadeshi' (Made in India). Great Indian patriots and eminent businessmen like Shri Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, amongst others conceived the idea of a chain of co-operative stores across India.And thus this chain of stores in question came into existence on 14th December, 1905.

• What chain of stores?

• _________is a major Indian commercial bank in the private sector, headquartered at Kochi, Kerala. It is the fourth largest bank in India in terms of capital base. As of 29 October 2014, _________ has 1216 branches spread across 24 states and 1449 ATMs across the country. Its balance-sheet stood at Rs 1.03 trillion as of end March 2014 and its net profit stood at Rs 839 crore for the full fiscal year.

• A lawyer named K.P.Hormis, and his acquaintances, bought the bank and took over the management. In 1945 they moved the bank's registered office to Aluva and Hormis became the Managing Director.

• FITB, please

• This is a premium brand of shoes from a little-known Bangalore based company - Sara Suole. This brand known for its statement "Pity we don't make shoes for women". Id the brand

• According to Time in 2011, the protesters' adoption of the mask had led to it becoming the top-selling item on Amazon.com, selling hundreds of thousands a year. Time Warner, one of the largest media companies in the world, is paid a fee with the sale of each official mask, as it owns the rights to the image.

• It is also used by protestors in protest marches

• In 1931, MK Gandhi addressed the 4th AGM of this entity, which was started by Purushottam Thakur Das and GD Birla.

• It is one of the biggest, oldest and apex business organization in India

• Id the organization?

Id the logo of this company?

This is the picture of a gentleman, standing proud with his revolutionary engine inside a tractor, in Italy post

World War 2.Id the company that grew out of his garage?

• Which famous French company was founded by these two brothers back in 1889, after a tire puncture grew troublesome for them?

• This company’s mascot is one of the most recognizable image in the world of business, and is often called the “Tyre man”

• An ad from which multinational corporation?• The company has a Royal Warrant from Queen

Elizabeth II of England

• X (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the most successful investor of the 20th century. X is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, and consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and as the third wealthiest in 2015. In 2012 Time named X one of the world's most influential people

• X is called the "Wizard of Omaha" or "Oracle of Omaha", or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to value investing and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. X is a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Gates Foundation.

• Id X and Y

• X was an Indian American academic and entrepreneur. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of a major audio equipment Corporation. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT’s education and research mission

• His father was an Indian freedom revolutionary who, having been imprisoned for his political activities, fled Bengal in the 1920s in order to avoid further persecution by the British colonial police.

• Id X?

This is the headquarters of a company in Espoo, Finland, and is named ______ Talo, Talo in Finnish means house.

FITB

In Mar 2015, why did this logo of a European company change from the left to the greyed-out version on the right on social media?

• This was unveiled in Jan 2015 as the personal monogram of a tennis player. The number 77 is part of this logo.

• Which player and why 77?

• This 2014 book about events in Indian history from about 1970 till 1980 led to bookstores boycotting its publisher, Rupa, because it was exclusively offered only on Amazon.com for the first 3 weeks. Who wrote this book?