The Strategist Quiz (#429)

1. Name this company that continues to change owners despite its R&D being credited as the first unit to have possessed the recipe for making egg less cakes in India. It also manufactured a Cola in the late 70s when Coke was asked to leave India then.
    
2. After 93 years, this publishing group is changing its name to Trusted Media Brands, Inc. A move that reflects its significant and transformative growth. Name it.
    
3. In which industry does one often use this phrase "Let George take over" or "letting George take over"?
    
4. Connect Levi Strauss to a business school whose motto is "Leading through Innovation" and arrive at a person's name.
    
5. In 1971 this company's first brand of shoes went on sale in the US. Since it was made in warm climate of Mexico and no one had tested them in the cold weather of the Northern US, the soles cracked and the shoes had to be sold at a reduced price of less than $8. Name it
    
6. What is the term used to describe a lucrative severance package that not only pays the executive to step down from his or her current positon, but includes a new employment contract with lucrative pay to continue with the company in another role?
    
7. In order to find its business a new name it hired Landor Associates to run an internal programme for its employees across to globe to suggest a name. An employee from Scandinavia gave it the name by which it is known today. This entity's genesis is linked to a feasibility study for GE to automate its payroll processing and manufacturing in the 1950s.
    
8. What do you get on connecting these: 80,000 numbers, 1,000 degrees Centigrade, 550 Kgs, 4 secs and 4 Kgs?
    
9. This name in Sanskrit means Mighty and Enduring, a first of its kind venture in India has been given this name. What is it?
    
10. Identify all the three logos and establish their connection with a business person who was in the news recently.
    

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