Answers to the Strategist quiz (#508)

Strategy Quiz (#508) answers

1. This brand’s anglicised name was meant to sound like its Chinese name, a play on the word “legendary”. It means passing good fortune. They used the English word from a card game, added a chi to it for a Chinese feel. The company is thinking of changing its brand name. Name the brand and its manufacturer.

The Trumpchi Car brand from GAC Motors China

2. Name this new product made from Arabica coffee beans and pure water, a new production method makes the drink completely colourless without using preservatives, artificial flavours, stabilisers and sugar?

The first colorless coffee brand in the world called CLR CFF (Clear Coffee).  Brothers David and Adam Nagy from Slovakia are its creators

3. Connect pan masala, gutka products made in India, licorice candy/pills made in Italy and France, Sir Humphry Davy’s research on treating leather and the world’s first black coloured vodka and what do you arrive at?

Catechu or Katha, generally used in paan / paan masalas. It is an extract of acacia trees used variously as a food additive, astringent, tannin & dye. Blood Vodka is the world’s first black vodka brand that used black catechu for the colour

4. Who said this: “We don’t stand a chance of advertising with features and benefits and with RAMs and charts and comparisons. The only chance we have of communicating is with a feeling”?

Steve Jobs on Apple

5. The founder of this firm was flying home to pitch to a cable system operator in Florida in the early 80s. He needed a new name for his venture to succeed. He jotted down names like Horizon, Vista, Explore and __. He chose the last one. BBC was one of his first VCs. Name him and the company he founded.

John Hendricks the founded of Discovery Communications Inc. in 1985which runs the Discovery Channel

6. Pledging and borrowing on a Plymouth automobile in the 1940s and selling off a Volkswagen Beetle in the 60s to gain full ownership were the acts of the respective founders that have built global brands. Name the founders and their brands.

Carl N. Karcher founder of Carl’s Jr and Tom Monaghan co-founder of Pizza Hut. He bought off his brother’s share by selling the Volkswagen Beetle

7. What is the term used to describe anything that delivers little or at least hard-to-measure pay off while often requiring lots of hard work?

Mouse Milk

8. Connect the Beaver, Dartmouth and the Eleanor and a reported £9,600 worth of damage in the 1770s with India and what do you arrive at?

The Boston Tea Party. East India company tea stocked in these 3 ships were destroyed by the sons of liberty

9. What theory professes the notion that even as technology progresses, productivity can lag behind?

Solow’s Paradox

10. Who uses this logo and what is its significance? 

It belongs to the suspended Coffee movement set up by John M. Sweeney. He was inspired by a caffè sospeso Italian for "suspended coffee") a cup of coffee paid for in advance as an anonymous act of charity. The tradition began in the working-class cafés of Naples, where someone who had experienced good luck would order a sospeso, paying the price of two coffees but receiving and consuming only one
Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

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