BUSINESS UPDATE QUIZ

PRESENTED BY JITHU JOSE PARACKAL b1332

1.
Mr. Qimat Rai Gupta is the founder Chairman and Managing Director of X. In the summer of 1958, Mr Qimat Rai left his education midway and entered into the electric wholesale market in Old Delhi. He setup a small trading company selling fixtures and electric cable to businesses in and around Delhi. With an investment of Rs.10000, he started Guptajee which has now grown to become X.

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Type Brands Industry Founded Founder(s) Headquarters Key people Products Revenue Employees Divisions

Public company Crabtree, Sylvania, Concord, Lumiance Electrical equipment 1958 Qimat Rai Gupta Noida, India Qimat Rai Gupta Founder & Chairman Electric Products 58.62 billion (US$940 million) (2011) 8,000 Lighting Sector, Power Distribution Sector

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2.
This is a picture of seven brothers who migrated from Italy to the US. They founded a company whose first product was a bath with massaging jets. The surname is same as the company name.

Type Industry Founded Founder(s) Headquarters Area served

Private Plumbing manufacturing 1915 Francesco, Rachele, Valeriano, Galindo, Candido, Giocondo and Giuseppe Jacuzzi Chino Hills, CA (USA), Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America (excluding Brazil and Chile) Executives:Jerry Pasley; Steve Purcell, Senior VP Operations; Erica Moir, VP Product Development, Design & Marketing, Kurt Bachmeyer; Director of Customer Service mattresses, hot tubs, bath tubs, showers, toilets, sinks and accessories US $1202.4M(2006) US$40.4M (2006) Apollo Management 4,907 Sundance Spas, Thermospa

Key people

Products Revenue Net income Owner(s) Employees Subsidiaries

3.
Name the largest single brand restaurant chain in the world. Owned by Doctors Associates.

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Type Privately held company

Industry
Genre Founded Founder(s) Headquarters Number of locations Key people

Restaurants
Fast food Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S. (August 28, 1965) Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck Milford, Connecticut, U.S. 40,859 restaurants in 105 countries

Fred DeLuca (President) Millie Shinn (EVP) David Worroll (Controller) Don Fertman (CDO)
Submarine sandwiches Salads Pizzas (some locations) Doctor's Associates, Inc.

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Owner(s)

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4.
Founded in 1952 by late Shri K.V.Pendharkar, this company has emerged today as makers of the best internationally known products of the Ayurveda. Having production units at Dombivli, Nagpur and Goa in India.

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Type Industry Founded Founder(s) Headquarters Key people Subsidiaries

Private Conglomerate 1952 K.V.Pendharkar Bhoiwada Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Sanjeev Pendharkar (Chairman) Vicco Laboratories

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5.
He is the sixth richest man on the planet. His children were the producers of the movie True Grit. Steve Jobs was the official wedding photographer at his wedding.

Name him and the tech company he founded.

 Larry Ellison, Oracle

Type Traded as Industry Founded Founder(s) Headquarters Area served

Public NYSE: ORCL Enterprise software Computer hardware June 16, 1977, Santa Clara, California, U.S. Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates Redwood Shores, Redwood City, California, United States Worldwide Jeff Henley (Chairman) Larry Ellison (CEO) Safra Catz (President) Mark Hurd (President) Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware, servers, workstations, storage

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Products

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6.
This clothing brand was established by the three Shah brothers- Nitin Shah, Arun Shah and Milan Shah in London (1973). Originally named Sholemay Trading Ltd, it later changed to X because it was short and could be easily written.

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Pepe Jeans London is a denim and casual wear jeans brand that was established in the Portobello Road area of London in 1973.
Founded Founder(s) Headquarters London (1973) Nitin, Arun, and Milan Shah Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain

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7.
This Indian company floated an issue of this controversial financial instrument in 2008 and collected a sum of around Rs 19000 cr till 2011. The company claims this issue was a private placement and not a public offer. Which company am I talking about and name the instrument ??

 Name : Sahara Instrument : OFCD OFCD: These debentures can be converted into shares, when debt holder (investor) wishes (after expiry of xyz pre-decided date). But the rate, will be decided by the company . From investors view, this option to convert Debenture into Shares is good ONLY IF Company is likely to make huge profit (so you, the shareholder can earn more dividend.) OR Companys share-price is likely to rise in the share market (then you can sell shares to third-party and make profit). BUT if the Company is going bankrupt, then it is better to avoid converting the Debenture into shares. Because when a company is liquidated (i.e. its assets sold off), the Debenture holders get the money before the shareholders.

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Type Industry Founded Privately held company Conglomerate 1978 (Gorakhpur, India)

Founder(s)
Headquarters Area served Key people

Subrata Roy Sahara

Lucknow, India India Subrata Roy Sahara (Chairman)

Products

Financial services Construction Mass media Retailing IT Services & Outsourcing 730 billion (2011)

Revenue

8.
The books, Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor, which is as "the greatest book on investing ever written", introduced the world to Mr. Market - the best investment analogy in history. The author of this book is the mentor of Warren Buffet. Name this person

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 Benjamin Graham ( May 8, 1894 September 21, 1976) was a British-born American professional investor. Graham is considered the father of value investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd through various editions of their famous book Security Analysis. Graham's followers include Warren Buffett, William J. Ruane, Irving Kahn, Hani M. Anklis, Walter J. Schloss, Amit Ayare and others.

9.
Name the first Indian woman CEO of a Foreign Bank. ?

Tarini Vaidya KBC Bank India & South Asia

KBC BANK
KBC Bank N.V. is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises. Besides retail banking, insurance and asset management activities (in collaboration with sister companies KBC Insurance NV and KBC Asset Management NV), KBC is active in European debt capital markets, domestic cash equity markets and in the field of corporate banking, leasing, factoring, reinsurance, private equity and project and trade finance in Belgium, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere (mainly in Europe). KBC is an initialism for Kredietbank ABB Insurance CERA Bank. The parent company, KBC Group N.V., is one of the major companies and the second largest bancassurer in Belgium. It is the 18th largest bank in Europe . Its shares are traded on the Euronext exchange in Brussels and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

10.
GUESS THE AD?

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Type Industry

Public Consumer electronics

Founded
Headquarters

January 20, 1934

Midtown West, Tokyo Midtown Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Key people
Products

Shigetaka Komori (President & CEO)

Digital imaging and photographic materials, equipment and services

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