Corporations Trivia

1. This company was founded in 1976 by gardener Andrew Ritchie and is named after a Roman Catholic church in Knightsbridge, London. With a 2017 turnover of £32.7 million, which cycle manufacturer is this?

From Quiz Best Of British

Answer: Brompton

Fed up with the amount of room a bicycle takes up when not being used, Ritchie began experimenting with a folding cycle design which has been hugely successful, with the firm now producing 40,000 bikes a year, of which 70% are sold abroad. In recognition of this growth, Brompton have been awarded the Queen's Award for Export as well as the Queen's Award for Enterprise and the Prince Philip Designers Prize, and their sales continue to grow. A Brompton folds into a package measuring just 565 × 545 × 250 mm (22.2 × 21.5 × 9.8 in) and can be unfolded and ready for use again in just 20 seconds.

From Quiz World of Business in 2018

Answer: 19%

On 26 July 2018, the loss of $120 billion represented roughly 19% of its market capitalization value dropping from $630 billion to $510 billion. The stock price closed at $176.26 wiping out all investor gains in 2018. It was the biggest loss in history of any public company in the stock market in a single day. Facebook started public listing in 2012. At the end of 2018, the market capitalization value of Facebook stood at $541.5 billion. In term of market capitalization value, the company was ranked fifth largest in the world after Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft in 2018.

From Quiz Company Name Meanings

Answer: Forrest Mars Sr. and Bruce Murrie

Over 400 million individual M&Ms are produced every day in the US!

From Quiz The Cadbury Tales

Answer: Quakers

John Cadbury opened a shop which sold cocoa and drinking chocolate in Bull Street, Birmingham in 1824. He then moved into large-scale production, opening the first Cadbury factory in 1831. Like the Fry, Rowntree and Terry families, also important British chocolate manufacturers, the Cadbury family belonged to the Society of Friends.

From Quiz AVG Technologies

Answer: Anti-Virus Guard

AVG Technologies was founded in 1991 by Jan Gritzbach and Tomás Hofer in the Czech Republic. It has offices in a number of countries around the world.

From Quiz Corporate Headquarters During the Sub-Prime Crisis

Answer: Apple

Apple Computers are the makers of the iconic Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads.

From Quiz Oil Company Advertising

Answer: Exxon

Exxon operates all over the world. In many countries, they still carry the Esso brand. One promotional campaign in the 70s involved giving miniature tiger tails to their customers to hang from their gas caps.

From Quiz Airlines That Have Flown Away

Answer: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways Corporation (BEA)

British Airways was formed in 1974 and was privatized in 1986. British United Airways was a private carrier that was bought out by Caledonian Airways (later British Caledonian) in 1970. British Caledonian was also a private company that was taken over by BA in 1987. I made up Royal Air Carrier, though the Brits here will recognize the RAC initials as the Royal Automobile Club, a break-down service for motorists. BOAC is well-known to fans of The Beatles: "Flew into Miami Beach BOAC, didn't get to bed last night." (From "Back in the USSR")

From Quiz IT Majors: A quiz on some IT companies

Answer: Booklet 3G

Nokia,was started in Finland in 1871, by Fredrik Idestam and Leo Mechelin. They introduced their mini laptop Booklet 3G, which runs on Windows 7.

From Quiz From Milk To Perfume: The Nestlé Story

Answer: Switzerland

The company was formed in 1866 by Henri Nestlé at Vevey in Switzerland, where the world headquarters are now based. Henri Nestlé was a pharmacist who wanted to develop a product that could be used by mothers who were unable to breast- feed their children. It was an immediate success and within five years "Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé" was being used throughout Europe. Nestlé sold his company in 1874 and in 1905 it merged with a rival, the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.

From Quiz How the Company Got Its Name, Part 2

Answer: cocaine

From 1886 until 1903, Coca-Cola did contain levels of cocaine. In 1904, Coca-Cola began using "spent" coca leaves that have all but very trace amounts of cocaine removed. Coca-Cola gets its cocaine-free coca extract from the Stepan Company. Their Maywood NJ facility is the only US site legally allowed to import coca plants. The cocaine is removed and sold to the Mallinckrodt company for medicinal use. While carbon dioxide is used to make the carbonated beverage, that component is not the source of the "coca" in the name.

From Quiz How the Company Got Its Name, Part 1

Answer: Service Games of Japan

In 1940, Standard Games, based in Honolulu began selling coin-operated games. In 1951 the company moved to Japan and was renamed Service Games. In 1965 Service Games merged with rival arcade machine provider Rosen Enterprises. The new name of the post-merger company was Sega Enterprises, from combining the first two letters of SErvice with the first two of GAmes.

From Quiz UK Retail History

Answer: International

International had small, fairly upmarket shops, originally being a tea company in 1878. When taken over by BAT in 1972 the name was changed from International Tea Co to International Stores to reflect the move to groceries> It was then taken over by Dee Corp in 1984, before becoming Gateway in 1988 for a while, then Somerfield, and ultimately being bought by the Co-Operative in 2009.

From Quiz History of Guinness

Answer: Arthur Guinness

Though there are some speculation as to where Arthur Guinness was actually born it is believed he was born at Celbridge in County Kildare in or around 1725. Arthur Price was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel and godfather of Arthur Guinness, so he was "well connected".

From Quiz The Hostess with the Mostess: Party Planning Sales

Answer: Brownie Wise

Brownie Wise, a former sales representative for Stanley Home Products, convinced the owner of the Tupperware brand to sell his products through 'parties' held in the homes of housewives. This led to a dramatic increase in sales resulting in Tupperware being taken off the store shelves and only sold using a party plan marketing system. Earl Tupper was the inventor of Tupperware, Mila Pond held the first Tupperware party in the UK, and Anita Roddick was the founder of The Body Shop (as we know it today).

From Quiz Harrods ...Through The Years

Answer: Charles Henry Harrod

Charles Harrod, the founder of Harrods, lived from 1799 to 1885. He was originally a miller by trade until he moved to London in 1834 and began his wholesale business in Stepney.

From Quiz Parcel Courier Companies

Answer: FedEx

Tom Hank's character Chuck Noland worked as an executive for FedEx and Maggie Carpenter, played by Julia Roberts, drove away from her wedding to Ike Graham, Richard Gere in one of their delivery trucks. FedEx is a worldwide parcel courier and was founded by Fred Smith in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA with the original name Federal Express (from wikipedia.com).

From Quiz Company Names

Answer: It doesn't have one

As SAS covers Norway, Sweden and Denmark together, technically none of these countries has its own national airline. Maersk Air is the largest private airline in Denmark, and Dan Air was from England, meaning 'Davies and Newman'.

From Quiz Corporate Cities

Answer: Vevey (Switzerland)

Vevey is a small village on the shores of the Leman lake (lake Geneva).

From Quiz Banks and Financial Institutions

Answer: Monte Dei Paschi di Siena

This Italian bank, with headquarters in Siena, Tuscany, was founded in the year 1472 and is regarded as the oldest bank in the world. It is still (in 2002) one of the most important Italian banks, with branches in various parts of the world.

From Quiz Company Logos, Past and Present

Answer: MGM

Leo the Lion is a Zodiac constellation, unlike Orion, Pegasus (Tri-Star's logo) and Republic's plain eagle.

From Quiz Who Owns What?

Answer: Maytag

From Quiz Best Of British

Answer: Specsavers

As well as Australia and New Zealand, Specsavers expanded into Ireland in 1990, Netherlands in 1997, Sweden in 2004, Norway in 2005 and Spain in 2006. The company launched its first celebrity glasses range in 2017, with the Kylie Minogue collection and continued this theme in 2018 with a collection from will.i.am. Specsavers have also sponsored the England cricket team and referees in the Scottish football league, which would all seem to be paying off as global revenue for 2017-18 was up 7% on the previous year at a whopping £2.61 billion.

From Quiz World of Business in 2018

Answer: Netflix

Netflix reached that mark, briefly overtaking Walt Disney to becoming the most valuable entertainment company. The company was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Mark Randolph in California. The surge was brief, however, and by the end of 2018, Walt Disney's market capitalization value stood at $152.1 billion (ranked 53rd in the world) and Netflix's value at $141.9 billion (ranked 56th in the world).

From Quiz Company Name Meanings

Answer: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

3M manufactures over 55,000 different products ranging from orthodontic appliances to automotive rust proofing.

From Quiz The Cadbury Tales

Answer: A glass and a half

The Cadbury Dairy Milk bar was first produced in 1905. The "glass and a half" slogan was introduced in 1928.

From Quiz From Salt to Steel

Answer: Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal hotel is located next to the Gateway of India and overlooks the Arabian Sea. Contrary to popular perception, it was designed by an Indian architect Raosaheb Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya. The well known English architect, WA Chambers, took over only after the former's death and didn't make any major changes to the original plans. There are several myths surrounding its construction. A popular one states that Jamsetji Tata built it after being denied entry to a 'whites only' hotel located nearby. This has since been debunked by historians. It is now believed that Tata built the hotel to attract people to the city as a plague threatened to drive them away. Another myth states that the hotel was mistakenly built facing the wrong side and when the English architect saw the error while entering the city by boat, he jumped off the ship and committed suicide. This one has been proved to be untrue as well. The Indian Hotels Company, the hospitality wing of the group, now owns and operates many hotels across the world. The Pierre, a well known hotel in New York City, was taken over by the Taj Group in 2005.

From Quiz AVG Technologies

Answer: After the founder Jan Gritzbach

AVG Technologies was named "Grisoft" because it was a portmanteau of "Gritzbach" and "software". The company was renamed AVG Technologies in February 2008.

From Quiz Corporate Headquarters During the Sub-Prime Crisis

Answer: IBM

Known as International Business Machines, IBM is one of the oldest surviving technology companies. IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Corporation.

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