Biz Quizzard 359

Presenting the current affairs quiz for the week February 07 - 12. Hope you enjoy it.

1. Hindustan Unilever is planning to enter the highly-competitive fruit-based beverages segment and will soon launch fruit-based drinks in tetrapaks under which brand?

2. Which MNC will launch the world’s first 3D smart phone at the forthcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona?

3. Mumbai-based financial services company Madhusudan Securities will acquire which apparel brand from Ascent Capital-backed Primus Retail for Rs 100 crore?

4. Dilip Sanghvi is the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year 2010. He is the chairman and managing director of which company?

5. Which company last week announced its entry into the construction equipment business with the launch of EarthMaster backhoe loader?

6. A play called Black Comedy was staged in Hyderabad last week. Why it finds a mention here is that all the actors are employees of a company and the play itself is the offshoot of a training program there. Which company?

7. Ravi Venkatesan last week quit as the India chairman of which MNC?

8. What is unique about the limited edition version of the Range Rover luxury 4WD?

9. Which MNC has agreed to buy The Huffington Post, the influential and rapidly growing news, analysis and lifestyle website, for $315 million?

10. As the Egypt uprising came to an end, what went largely unreported in India until the fag-end was the detention and subsequent release of Wael Ghonim. He was the employee of which MNC?

11. Which airline has announced the launch of 'Next Stop Bollywood', an online dance competition with its brand ambassador?

12. Which international brand has announced actor Arjun Rampal as its brand ambassador?

13. Which MNC last week said its next chief executive officer would be British-born Michael Woodford, 50, who oversaw a restructuring of the firm's European operations?

14. Which company has acquired a 79 per cent stake in Singapore-based travel agency Luxury Tours & Travels Pte Ltd (LTT) for $3 million?

Please mail your answers on or before next Sunday to rajeevkondapalli@gmail.com with Biz Quizzard 359 as the subject.

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