The document discusses various mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in different industries. Some of the key acquisitions mentioned include: 1) Voonik acquiring 5 fashion startups like Zohraa and Styl to build its premium fashion product Vilaara. 2) innerChef acquiring foodtech startups like Eatongo and Flavour Labs. 3) Intel acquiring the wearable startup Basis to enter the health tracking market for wearable devices.

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Question 1
• Indian PSUs could benefit by sharing assets. In extreme cases
even Mergers & Acquisitions among PSUs could be a boost for
the sectors.
• To enable Heads of all PSUs to be engaged in an exercise of
scrutinizing such possibilities, govt. of India has started an
annual conference.
• What is the conference called?

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• Image credits : Yourstory
• Which fashion-tech company
acquired Zohraa, Styl, Picksilk,
Dekkoh & Getsy?

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• Voonik – backed by Sequoia, founder : Sujayath Ali & Navaneetha
Krishnan, acquired 5 startups in six months to build it’s premium
fashion product – Vilaara.

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Question 3
• Online gifting platform_____, run by Bangalore-based Nreach
Online Services Pvt. Ltd, has acqui-hired BookMyInterest, a
marketplace for hobbies and leisure activities.
• In October 2015, ___ had acqui-hired Yipeedo, a
recommendation engine that assists city dwellers to discover
and book leisure activities.
• In January 2016, it had acquired Actizone, an online portal to
discover extra-curricular activities. FITB.

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• Based in Gurgaon & founded by Rajesh Sawhney, X delivers ready
to eat or ready to cook food. They are also focusing on building
“Indulge”- a hyperlocal marketplace for Desserts.
• They have recently acquired Eatongo & Flavour labs.
• In the food-space, they are the first to enter IoT with a device
called Hunger-Tap launched by them.
• Which Foodtech startup?

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Answer 4
• innerChef

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Question 5
• Rosneft is an integrated oil company majority owned by the
Government of Russia. In March 2013, Rosneft became the
largest publicly traded oil company, after buying TNK-BP.
• Rosneft will supply 2 million tonnes of oil to India in 2017.
• Which Indian co. acquired 30% of Rosneft?

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Question 6
• In October 2016, Rosneft acquired 98% of an Indian oil
company. The 2% remaining was split amongst the two
promoter brothers.
• The name is a word which has the same pronunciation as the
Initials of the names of chairman and vice chairman.
• The group’s steel companies were the first to make bullet proof
steel. They are into steel, IT, Agro, Publishing, Power,
&Infrastructure.

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• Promoters – Ruia Brothers
• Chairman - Shashi Ruia
• Vice chairman – Ravi Ruia
• Name _ SR : ESSAR

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Question 7
• In one of the most talked about global acquisitions of
last year, a company with NYSE Ticker T, which has as
its logo the Initials of company in small letters (Not
Capitals), acquired a company with ticker : TWX.
• Identify both companies.

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Question 8
• In one of the most talked about global acquisitions, Dutch
company NXP semiconductors was acquired by one of its rivals.
• The rival can be related to an essential component of your
smartphone, especially if you have fast charging feature.
• Who was the Rival?

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Answer 8
• Qualcomm

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Question 9
• Baxalta (BXLT) was a pharma company involved with rare diseases like Zika
and Ebola etc. for which the market size is less and huge pharma giants
might not wish to foray into expensive research, as is true with any niche
business.
• Baxalta was recently acquired by it’s rival, making the rival the global leader
in the rare disease Industry.
• Which Pharma co.?

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• The one Acquisition that every single professional remembers
was mocked by twitter crowd as being the dullest. Identify both
companies from the public reactions.
• A confused old lady accidentally buying something in a struggling shopping website.
• X purchase of Y happened a week ago. Nobody knew. Why? Because the
announcement was made on Y.
• Theory: He bought Y in desperate attempt to stop Y-invites.
• Both companies keep telling to update something every three goddamn minutes. It’s a
match made in heaven.

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Question 11
• “Glimpse” is a data-on-health app that allows you to glimpse
your heath status. You can monitor your activity, nutrition,
mindfulness and sleep etc.
• Which global technology giant has strengthened its hold in the
healthcare sector by acquiring Glimpse?

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• Apple

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• “Whistle” is an app for animal healthcare. Which group recently
acquired Whistle.
• It is a conglomerate that Humans best know for their human
consumables but the group also owns one of the popular
brands catering to the pet-care industry. Whistle will probably
become a sister concern of that brand while human’s enjoy
what they know the group best for.

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Question 13
• Which sports, fitness & apparel brand acquired Runtastic?

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• Adidas

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Question 14
• “Coins” is a wearable payment systems.
• Which company that has been buzzing the IoT and
wearable-tech industry for some time now, acquired
coins?
• The founders(2007) are Eric friedman and James Park and
the company is based in San Francisco.

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Question 15
• X, which is a giant in its original industry has an established
portfolio with Children and family products.
• This company acquired FUHU which made tablets for children &
families and SPROUTLING which is a wearable tech. for babies to
monitor their activity.
• In 1993, the company purchased Y brand from Quaker oats
company.

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• The timeline of which brand? Who acquired?

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Question 17
• World’s largest Cement maker X sold X-India to Y for 9000 cr.
INR.
• However, X has other subsidiaries in India through which it still
remains a player in the Indian market.
• Starting as a one-product, one-man outfit in 1969, Y has given
the world Pranav Mistry (6 sense technology fame).

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• On August 1, 1863, dye salesman Friedrich ____ and master dyer
Johann Friedrich Weskott found the general partnership.
• 1881-1914, the company explores other areas of business.
• World War I affects exports, the company is merged with 2 others
and later re-established.
• The company contributes to “economic miracle” in Germany.
• In 2013, the company sends an airship and anniversary exhibition
around the world and celebrates with Angela Merkel.
• 2016 – the company acquired Montasanto- which is an Ago-
Industry company.
• The company is known to quizzers for its patents. Which company?

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Question 19
• X - Indian mobile network operator headquartered in
Gurgaon, founded by Chinnakannan Sivasankaran.
• Y & Maxis Communications Berhad (MCB) announced
largest ever consolidation in Indian telecom sector.
• So, basically X & Y merged operations recently.
• Dhoni has been the brand ambassador for X.
• Identify X & Y (specific, please)

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• X- Aircel, Y- Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communication

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Question 20
• Basis is a wearable startup, recently acquired
by the Giant X, as a part of its X-devices.
• The acquisition of BASIS Science provides
immediate entry into the market with a
leader in health tracking for wearable
devices, according to the head of X-devices division. X-capital was
an investor in Basis science.

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Answer 20
• Intel Devices (Q.21- What’s CF?)