The Strategist Quiz (#330)

1. Connect one of Louis Vuitton menswear collection launched in 2012, a limited edition of Jaguar Land Rover launched 10 years ago, a special edition of the Italian pen company Delta and a Swiss brand of rock bottom shoes. What do you arrive at?
    
2. In a recently published listing, Michael Jackson is ranked No.1. This list also includes Charles Schulz (creator of the comic strip Peanuts), Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Taylor and Bob Marley. What does this listing relate to?
    
3. This brand in the US has donated close to a million dollars towards honey bee research by partnering with leading research facilities. It started this funding when it realised that one-third the honey bee colonies in the US disappear due to factors such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an alarming phenomenon that occurs when honey bees mysteriously desert their hive and die. Name the brand.
    
4. With which product is a Swedish paper mill, a Connecticut housewife, and a Procter &Gamble engineer connected with?
    
5. What are Castro's convertibles?
    
6. What is common to the Spanish Bread Train and the second largest bank in Switzerland?
    
7. What is the term that is used to describe the act of aggressive competition that results in one company taking portions of another company's market share? Generally when one company has a bigger market share for a particular product or service, the company enjoying the larger market share is called _________.
    
8. Who said this to his manager H W Stringfellow in the early 1900s: "Sir, I have made up my mind. I resign the bank service. One day my bank will be bigger than yours"? Stringfellow considered this as a huge joke.
    
9. Which company's base line is "Simplify the Business of Life"?
    
10. Identify the company from its logo. In this company's history a film personality and his family took over its management for some period of time. Name him too.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
     

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