Logo quiz of the day : 175

Hint: Bank

Answer: ABN AMRO

Quoting Shweta Patil:

ABN AMRO is a Dutch bank, currently owned by RFS Holdings B.V., a consortium of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, the Government of the Netherlands, and Banco Santander. The bank was created as the result of the 1990-91 merger between Amsterdam-Rotterdam (AMRO) Bank and ABN, whose history dated back to the founding of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij in 1824.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 355

Hint: Pharma company, popular in eye care.
Answer: Bausch & Lomb
Bausch & Lomb is an American  company based in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today. In addition to this main activity, in recent years the area of medical technology (medicines, implants for eye diseases) has been developed. Bausch & Lomb became well known because of its famous Ray-Ban  brand of sunglasses, which was sold in 1999 to the Italian Luxottica  Group. Today, the company employs about 13,000 people in 36 countries. The company was founded in 1853 by two Germans, John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb.
Jacob Bausch was a trained optician  and in Henry Lomb, he found the financier and partner he needed for a small but ambitious workshop producing monocles. Initially in 1861, the company manufactured Vulcanite  rubber eyeglass frames and other precision vision products.

Logo quiz of the day : 144

Hint: An Alliance

Answer: Rainforest Alliance

Logo Quiz of the Day : 354

Hint: Japanese pharma company.
Answer: Eisai Co., Ltd.
Eisai Co., Ltd. is one of the leading global pharmaceutical companies, ranking among the top 25 and achieving $8 billion USD in sales for the fiscal 2008 year. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it has some 10,000 employees, among them about 1,500 in research.
Eisai Inc., the American subsidiary of Eisai Co., Ltd. officially established in 1995, is one of only four companies in the United States to ever reach $1 billion in revenue within just five years.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 385

Hint: Bank in Canada.
Answer: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
The Toronto-Dominion Bank (in French, Banque Toronto-Dominion, and commonly TD in either language) is the second largest bank in Canada by market capitalization and deposits and the sixth largest bank in North America. The bank was created in 1955 through the merger of The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank, which were founded in 1855 and 1869, respectively.

Logo quiz of the day : 113

Hint: Easiest way to reach Emerald Island

Answer: Srilankan Airlines

Logo quiz of the day : 143

Hint: Apparel company

Answer: North Face

Logo quiz of the day : 174

Hint: Swedish company

Answer: Volvo Group

Quoting Shweta Patil:

The Volvo Group is a Swedish supplier of commercial vehicles such as trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and financial services.Volvo means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere" (cp the ball bearing producer SKF). The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use "SKF" as the trademark for all its bearing products.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 353

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: Astellas Pharma Inc.
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, formed on 1 April 2005 from the merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd..

Astellas' franchise areas are urology, immunology (transplantation), dermatology, cardiology, and infectious disease. Priority areas for R&D are infectious diseases, diabetes, gastrointestinal diseases, oncology, and diseases of the central nervous system.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 384

Hint: Watch the WC closely for this one too.
 Answer:SEARA
Sponsor and Official meat supplier of the Brazil National Football team and also one of the many sponsors of FIFA World Cup 2010.

Logo quiz of the day : 112

Hint: Its CEO once said, "If you want better service go elsewhere."

Answer: Ryan Air.

Logo quiz of the day : 142

Hint: Transport Company
Answer: Transport for London. Transport for London (TfL) is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London in England. Its role is to implement the transport strategy and to manage transport services across London.

Logo quiz of the day : 173

Hint: Moved from London to Dubai, and now planning to go back

Answer: International Cricket Council.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.

Source: Wikipedia

Logo Quiz of the Day : 352

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: Solvay S.A
Solvay S.A. is a Belgian chemical company. It was founded in 1863 by Ernest Solvay to produce sodium carbonate by the solvay process. Since then the company has diversified to two major sectors of activity: chemicals and plastics. It was formerly also active in pharmaceuticals, but agreed to sell that entire division to Abbott Labs for �4.5 billion in September 2009, a deal completed in February 2010.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 383

Hint: Watch the WC closely.
Answer: The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA)
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is a South African state owned enterprise responsible for most passenger rail services in the country. It consists of four branches: Metrorail, which operates commuter rail services in urban areas; Shosholoza Meyl, which operates regional  and inter-city rail services; Autopax, which operates regional and inter-city coach services; and Intersite, which manages the property owned by PRASA.

Logo quiz of the day : 111

Hint: Entertainment
Answer: Touchstone Pictures

Logo quiz of the day : 141

Hint: Gaming company
Answer:  Ubisoft.

Logo quiz of the day : 172

Hint: Can't dry your hands without them.

Answer: Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include "Kleenex" facial tissue, "Kotex" feminine hygiene products, "Cottonelle" toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, "KimWipes" scientific cleaning wipes, and "Huggies" disposable diapers. Based in Irving, Texas, it has approximately 55,000 employees. Kimberly-Clark holds a Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 351

Hint: Japanese pharma company.
Answer: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and Asia and a top 15 pharmaceutical company, employing over 19,000 employees and achieving $15.7 billion USD in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year. The company is focused on metabolic disorders, gastroenterology, neurology, inflammation, as well as oncology  through its independent subsidiary Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals was first founded on June 12, 1781 and was incorporated on January 29, 1925.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 382

Hint: Watch the FIFA WC closely.
Answer: First National Bank
First National Bank (FNB) is one of South Africa's "big four" banks. It is part of the FirstRand Limited group, which trades on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. FNB also has subsidiaries in Swaziland, Mozambique, Botswana  and Namibia, which are all listed on their country's respective stock exchanges. In January 2009, First National Bank received authorization from the Bank of Zambia to begin banking operations in Zambia. FNB, in a statement, stated that their Zambian operations will start during the second quarter of 2009.

Logo quiz of the day : 110

Hint: Automobile Company

Answer: Datsun

Logo quiz of the day : 140

Hint: Apparels company.

Answer: Timberland

Logo quiz of the day : 171

Hint: RAM, Dakota and Nitro

Answer: Dodge.

Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles, and pickup trucks, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler Group LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide. Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company in 1900 to supply parts and assemblies for Detroit�s growing auto industry, Dodge began making its own complete vehicles in 1914. The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998�2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC which has an alliance with Fiat. Fiat has plans to eliminate some Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep existing vehicles in favor of Fiat-Chrysler co-developed vehicles.

Source: Wikipedia.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 350

Hint: US pharma major.
Answer: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb, often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquarted in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation. Squibb was founded in 1858 by Edward Robinson Squibb in Brooklyn, New York, while Bristol-Myers was founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, New York (both were graduates of Hamilton College).

Logo Quiz of the Day : 381

Hint: French corporate and investment bank
Answer: Natixis
Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created on 2006-11-17 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire (Banque Populaire group) and IXIS  (Caisse d'Epargne group).

The two main shareholders, Groupe Caisses d'Epargne and Banque Populaire, together own more than 70% of Natixis while the remaining float is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.

On December 15, 2008, Natixis revealed that it had lost more than US$450 million in the Madoff investment scandal on Wall Street�the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

Natixis provide financial data for the 'Markets' section on the news channel, Euronews.

Logo quiz of the day : 109

Hint: Games coming next year

Answer: Youth Olympics 2010 - Singapore

Logo quiz of the day : 139

Hint: Same question was asked in Tata Crucible, Pune edition

Answer: ThyssenKrupp AG

Logo quiz of the day : 170

Hint: How can we forget this day.

Answer: Taj Group of Hotels

 Quoting WHITE JACK AND BLACK LAGOON:
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces is a worldwide chain of luxury hotels and resorts. The Indian Hotels Company Limited and its subsidiaries are collectively known as Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces. A part of the Tata Group, one of India's largest business conglomerates, Taj Hotels Resort and Palaces comprises 76 hotels, 7 palaces, 6 private islands and 12 resorts and spas, spanning 52 destinations in 12 countries across 5 continents. Besides India, Taj Hotels Resort and Palaces are located in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Africa, the Middle East, Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Australia.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 349

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is a diversified pharmaceuticals  health care company. It has 72,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, located near North Chicago, Illinois.

Abbott Laboratories was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888. In 2008, Abbott had over $29 billion in revenue.

In 1985, the company developed the first HIV blood screening test. The company's drug portfolio includes Humira, a drug for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, moderate to severe chronic psoriasis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis; Norvir, a treatment for HIV; Depakote, an anticonvulsant drug; and Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid hormone. Abbott also has a broad range of medical devices, diagnostics and immunoassay products as well as nutritional products, including Ensure, a line of well known meal replacement shakes, and EAS, the largest producer of performance based nutritional supplements.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 380

Hint: Headquartered in Netherlands.
Answer: Rabobank
Rabobank is a financial services provider with offices worldwide. Their main location is in the Netherlands. They are a global leader in Food and Agri financing and in sustainability-oriented banking. The group comprises 153 independent local Dutch Rabobanks, a central organization (Rabobank Nederland), and a large number of specialized international offices and subsidiaries. Food & Agribusiness is the prime international focus of the Rabobank Group.

The bank has a AAA credit rating from the rating agencies Moody's (since 1981), Standard & Poor's (since 1981) and DBRS (since 2001). Global Finance currently ranks Rabobank 6th in its survey of �the world�s safest banks�.

Logo quiz of the day : 108

Hint: Indian airline
Answer: Indigo Airlines

Logo quiz of the day : 138

Hint: Cheetah, Barracuda,BlackArmour,Replica,Showcase are its product

Answer: Seagate

Logo quiz of the day : 169

Hint: Sachin Tendulkar might help 

Answer:  FIAT

Quoting WHITE JACK AND BLACK LAGOON

Shown is the logo of FIAT used in 1904.
FIAT, then named Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Automobile Factory of Turin), was founded in 1899 by a group of investors, including Giovanni Agnelli who later became its Managing Director. Agnelli bought his shares for $400 (about $10,000 in 2007 money). It�s worth billions now, and there had been an Agnelli in Fiat management ever since. Regardless or perhaps because of its wealth, the Agnelli clan remained a fractious and complicated group of people.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 348

Hint: Pharma major
Answer: Merck & Co.
Merck & Co., Inc., also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The headquarters of the company is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township. It was established in 1891 as the United States subsidiary of the German company now known as Merck KGaA. In common with many other German assets in the United States, Merck & Co. was confiscated in 1917 during World War I and set up as an independent company. It is currently one of the seven largest pharmaceutical companies in the world both by market capitalization and revenue.

Merck publishes the The Merck Manuals, a series of medical reference books that includes the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the world's best-selling medical textbook, and the Merck Index, a collection of information about chemical compounds.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 379

Hint: Second-largest bank  in Germany
 Answer: Commerzbank AG
Commerzbank AG is the second-largest bank in Germany, after Deutsche Bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.

Commerzbank is mainly active in commercial banking, retail banking and mortgaging. It suffered reversals in investment banking and shut its Commerzbank Securities investment banking unit. Investment banking, capital market, equities, and corporate banking operations are now integrated as a  division of the Commerzbank group.

Commerzbank holds a nationwide network of branch offices throughout Germany and numerous branch offices in the EU and Europe (namely London, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) and with a leading market share in online banking. EuroHypo is an integral part of Commerzbank.

The bank holds representations and holdings in various commercial and financial centers in Asia and the Americas.

Logo quiz of the day : 107

Hint: I am getting hungry.
Answer: Carl's Junior

Logo quiz of the day : 137

Hint: Infosys,Wipro,HCL, Satyam are here.

Answer: Nasdaq.

Logo quiz of the day : 168

Hint: Withering the storm without Obama's "help".

Answer: Ford Motor Company.

Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's fourth largest automaker based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, the automaker was founded by Henry Ford, and incorporated in June 16, 1903. Ford now encompasses many brands, including Lincoln and Mercury of the U.S. and Volvo of Sweden.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 347

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: AstraZeneca plc
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB  and British Zeneca Group plc. Zeneca had been part of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), as three divisions that were spun off from ICI on 1 June 1993.  It is a public company and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and the OMX exchange. It is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company has its head office in the City of Westminster, London.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 378

Hint: Banking powerhouse
Answer: The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc  is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, and together with NatWest and Ulster Bank, provides branch banking facilities throughout the British Isles. Royal Bank of Scotland has around 700 branches, mainly in Scotland though there are branches in many larger towns and cities throughout England and Wales. The Royal Bank of Scotland and its parent, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, are completely separate from the fellow Edinburgh based bank, the Bank of Scotland, which pre-dates the Royal Bank of Scotland by 32 years. The Bank of Scotland was effective in raising funds for the Jacobite Rebellion and as a result, The Royal Bank of Scotland was established to provide a bank with strong Hanoverian and Whig ties.

In 1728, the Royal Bank of Scotland became the first bank in the world to offer an overdraft facility.

The RBS Group uses branding developed for the Bank on its merger with the National Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1969. The Group's logo takes the form of an abstract symbol of four inward-pointing arrows known as the "Daisy Wheel" and is based on an arrangement of 36 piles of coins in a 6 by 6 square.

Tata Crucible -Pune. We made it!!!!!

Monday, 21-Sept-2009 was a dream comes true for me. Sarvesh (my colleague) and I participated in Tata Crucible Pune leg, just for fun, but as luck would have it, we ended on the stage, competing with the best in the city.

We did not won the top slot nor the runners-up position, but still the mere fact that we were on the stage dodging Pickbrain�s question was an achievement in itself.

More surprise came the next day, when our name was put up on Tata Crucible�s website (Link: http://www.tatacrucible.com/corporate/report2009/pune.html ) and we came to know that we will be on TV soon.

Sarvesh's blog: http://sarvsblog.blogspot.com/

Logo quiz of the day : 106

Hint: Think tourism and start spending "Leu".
Answer: Romania Tourism

Logo quiz of the day : 136

Hint: Music company

Answer: Warner Music

Logo quiz of the day : 167

Over the next three days, I will post past logos of automobile companies.

Hint: Initals are the lead.
Answer: Renault

Quoting Anurag:
The first Renault logo designed in 1900 featuring the initials of the three Renault brothers - Louis, Ferdinand and Marcek drawn on a medallion

Renault S.A is a French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. Due to its alliance with Nissan, it is currently the world's fourth largest automaker

Logo Quiz of the Day : 346

Hint: Coming soon.
Answer: The French Open or Roland Garros
The French Open is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar and the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world. Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam still held on clay and ends the spring clay court season.

It is one of the most prestigious events in tennis, and it has the widest worldwide broadcasting and audience of all regular events in this sport. Because of the slow playing surface and the five-set men's singles matches without a tiebreak in the final set, the event is widely considered to be the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 377

Hint: Company from Netherlands.
Answer: ING Group
ING Group is a financial institution of Dutch  origin offering banking, insurance  and asset management services. ING is an abbreviation of Internationale Nederlanden Groep (English: International Netherlands Group).

As of 2009, ING Group serves 85 million private, corporate and institutional clients in over 40 countries, with a workforce of over 100,000 people. It owns ING Direct, a virtual bank, as well as retail banking, insurance, investment management, and investment banking operations. Its services operate in countries including Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, Spain, UK, and the US. In 2009 it was the largest banking/financial company in the world by revenue.

Logo quiz of the day : 105

Hint: Aviation company
Answer: Fokker Aviation.
Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919. During its most successful period in the 1920s and 1930s, it dominated the civil aviation market. Fokker went into bankruptcy in 1996, and its operations were sold to competitors.(Source: Wikipedia.)

Logo quiz of the day : 135

Hint: Fast food chain

Answer: Taco Bell

Logo quiz of the day : 166

Hint: Related to gaming.

Answer: PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network, often abbreviated to PSN (and sometimes called PlayStation Online), is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service provided by Sony Computer Entertainment for use with the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable video game consoles, as well as PlayStation.com. As of November 19, 2009, there are over 33 million registered PlayStation Network accounts worldwide, and an average of 5.4 million unique account sign-ins daily.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 345

Hint: Pharma major.
Answer: Bayer AG
Bayer AG is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863. Today it is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is well-known for its original brand of aspirin.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 376

Hint: Logo is not longer used by this company.
Answer:  JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It has operations in 60 countries. It is a leader in financial services with assets of $2 trillion, and the largest market capitalization and third largest deposit base U.S. banking institution behind Wells Fargo and Bank of America. The hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase is the largest hedge fund in the United States with $53.5 billion in assets as of the end of 2009. Formed in 2000, when Chase Manhattan Corporation merged with J.P. Morgan & Co., the firm serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and governmental clients.

The JP Morgan brand is used by the Investment Bank as well as the Asset Management, Private Banking, Private Wealth Management, and Treasury & Securities Services divisions. Fiduciary activity within Private Banking and Private Wealth Management is done under the aegis of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.�the actual trustee. The Chase brand is used for credit card services in the United States and Canada, the bank's retail banking activities in the United States, and commercial banking.

JP Morgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks of the United States with Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo