The Strategist quiz #004

1. Which company in India has announced that it will open one store a day and will have 365 stores in a year's time?
   
   
2. What was the Fuji Rabbit?
   
   
3. Which company manufactured the first bulb-shaped glass encasement for Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp? The design was so successful that by 1908 half of this company's turnover came from these glass shells.
   
   
4. This business magazine started in 1917 and profited from the inspirational profiles of company leaders. Its very first editorial ran the lines: "Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions". Name the magazine.
   
   
5. Identify this Indian business group that owns a listed pharma and chemicals company, a pizza franchise for south-east Asia, a super-market chain, the sole Audi dealership in South India, and represents Bell Helicopters in India. It is also planning to list one of its companies on the LSE.
   
   
6. What term is used for describing the media spending of a particular brand when compared to others in its category?
   
   
7. In 1962, Pakistan International Airlines was the first international carrier in the world to provide this service. What was it?
   
   
8. The subsidiary of which Indian company is the sole supplier of towels to the Wimbledon Tennis tournament?
   
   
9. What did pharmacist Wilbur L Scoville invent while working in Parke Davis Pharmaceutical Company in 1912?
   
   
10. Which Indian company's service was endorsed by astronaut Neil Armstrong? The ads run the line "A small step for Armstrong, but a giant step for ......"
    
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