Jaquizzi chapter 34

An investment in
knowledge always
pays the best interest

1. X was founded in 1873, when a multinational
consortium of investors purchased a mine complex
on the X river in Huelva Spain, from the Spanish
government. Since then, the company has grown
through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to
place itself among the world leaders in the
production of many commodities, including
aluminum, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and
diamonds
X Group is a dual-listed company traded on both
the London Stock Exchange where it is a component
of the FTSE 100 Index and the Australian Securities
Exchange where it is a component of the S&P/ASX
200 index . Identify X

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2. X was the earliest digital electronic
communications medium, transmitting stock price
information over telegraph lines, in use between
around 1870 through 1970. It consisted of a paper
strip that ran through a machine called a Y, which
printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic
symbols followed by numeric stock transaction
price and volume information. The term “Z" came
from the sound made by the machine as it printed.
Identify X, Y and Z ?

Answer
X - Ticker Tape
Y – Stock Ticker
Z - Ticker

3. X has 4000 Points of Sale and enjoys a
market share of over 50 per cent of the
overall organised jewellery market in India.
Prominent brands housed by the group are
Nakshatra, D'damas, Gili, Asmi, Sangini,
Maya, Giantti, World of Solitaire, Shuddhi,
Diya to name a few.
Which brand is being talked about here ?

4. X’s motto is “Make Something People Want.” The program
aims to focus the founders on further developing their
product, team and market, refining their business model,
achieving product/market fit, and scaling the startup into
a high growth business, etc. The program culminates at
Demo Day where startups present their business to a
selected audience of investors.
As of 2016, X had invested in 940 companies
including Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, Zenefits,
BuildZoom, Instacart, Twitch.tv, Machine
Zone, Weebly, Paribus, Chinese startup Raven Tech, and the
combined market capitalization of X companies was over
$65B.

5. In 2013, Dutch designer Dave Hakkens
published a video outlining his vision of
“Phonebloks”, a modular smartphone designed
to curtail smartphone waste and to bring
benefit of an open system hardware to 6
billion people which went promptly viral. This
plan became a huge news in the tech world,
was taken up by a huge conglomerate, but
recently this plan was shelved off due to
various internal reasons. What am I talking
about?

6. Nanhi Kali is an NGO for Girl child Education
that provides primary education to children.
Which Indian group is behind it?

7. It is a famous sports company from
meerut. Its Owner is Mr. Mahajan. Its
sponsors Oman cricket tream. Common
brand amabassador is Chigumbura, Mhd.
Shammi, Ishant Sharma, Devendra Bishoo.
Formerly used by VVS Laxman, Younis Khan,
Abdul Razzaq and it also sponsored the
helmet of Sachin Tendulkar from 2001-11?
ID what is being talked about ?

8. A joint venture between Amazon Asia and
Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s private
investment fund, it has reportedly stopped
the sale of smartphones via the e-commerce
platform. The development follows India’s
foreign investment policies that prevent a
single seller from accounting for more than
25% of a marketplace’s total assets.
Identify the merchant

Started by
Chinese
Billionare Zhou
Yahui, through
his company
Beijing Kunlun
Wanwei Tech.

UTOO is a
premium taxi
service in
Chennai
founded by
former Aircel
Owner
Chinnakannan
Sivasankara

The company
which produces
Rajnigandha Pan
Masala in India

13. The man in the picture is probably the only man
with a 15 trillion dollar USD negative carbon footprint,
meaning he has saved at least 15 trillion dollars or
100 billion tons of CO2 from being released into the
atmosphere. He has probably brought down oil prices
by 10%. An Indian-American, he worked for GE,
proposed an audacious idea to Jack Welch who
supported him all the way. Within a year he came up
with a product which revolutionized the entire range
of GE products. He invented the IGBT (insulated gate
bipolar transistor) the key to the development of CFL
bulbs. He was in India recently.
ID the Person.

14. It was started by two shaggy haired
Americans who were dying to eat
American Burgers while they were there
in London. They got a 6 month lease from
their landlord who didn't believe it would
last. They created their own uniquely
styled diner in the old Rolls Royce
showroom. Humble origin of what?

15. In 1997, a standard called WECA
Compatible was published. To
ensure a catchy name, they chose
a name that sounded like a
service from CD player amplifiers.
What was the chosen name?

17. Their names are Punit L. and Kulin L. They are the
next generation leaders from which group ?

Answer : Arvind Mills (Punit
Lalbhai and Kulin Lalbhai

18. Identify the Joint Venture by these
three actresses.

19. On September 2 ____X_____filed papers in U.S.
Bankruptcy court in Newark, New Jersey that would
allow its vessels to dock without its ships, cargo or
equipment being confiscated by creditors. As of
September 9 the ___X____ Greece will be allowed to
dock, discharge and load containers at the Port of
Long Beach. X Montevideo and X Boston are
expected to dock next.
X is the seventh largest container shipping
companies by ship fleets and containers.
Identify X

20. In 2001, the company changed its name from "Holderbank
Financière Glaris" to _______X___________. Asia drove growth in the
2000s, as the company saw more than 50% of its business come from
emerging markets. In 2005, _____X_______ purchased Aggregate
Industries for US$4.1 billion, entering the United Kingdom for the first
time. That year, the company also expanded into India by acquiring a
stakes in The Associated Cement Companies (ACC) and Ambuja Cement
Eastern. In 2008, ______X_______became the largest shareholder of
China's Huaxin Cement with a 40% stake. In 2009, they acquired Cemex
Australia.
In February 2012, Bernard Fontana became the first CEO of ____X____
that was not part of the founding families.
On April 7, 2014 ______X _______ and
________Y________announced they had agreed to terms on a
"merger of equals" valued at nearly $60 billion

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