Answers to last week's quiz #036

1. Ford car dealers/franchisees were called Road Men. The system was invented by Henry Ford to sell and service cars.
   
   
2. Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance. Akula is recognised by Time magazine as one of today's 100 most influential people.
   
   
3. Honda Motors. It introduced its new car Fitta in Scandinavia, advertising it as "small on the outside". "Fitta" in Swedish, however, is a crude slang word. Honda Motors, therefore, changed the car's name to Jazz.
   
   
4. Bharti Retail
   
   
5. The Fortune 500 listing. General Motors was ranked No. 1 in the first ever listing published in 1954.
   
   
6. Virgin Atlantic. It used bio fuels mixed with coconut oil and babassu oil.
   
   
7. William Thourlby, the original Marlboro man
   
   
8. Nissan
   
   
9. Rene Lacoste, the 1920s French tennis champ turned clothing entrepreneur
   
   
10. Sheaffer

There were seven all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 36. The winner s who will receive a copy of Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower are: Shrinidhi, Bangalore; Divya Pillai, Chennai; Santhosh Kumar Varma P, Bangalore; N A Narasimhan, Chennai; Jayasree Vasant, Chennai; Deepa Vikram, Chennai; and Malathi Srinivasan, Chennai. Shrinidhi also wins Rs 2,000.