Business & Industry Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1986 this company was forced out of the instant camera market, having violated 7 Polaroid patents
Kodak
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1957 the Leo Burnett advertising agency created Cornelius the Rooster to appear on the box of this cereal
Corn Flakes
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It precedes “XM” in the name of an entertainment company–ooh, I love this song! Turn it up!
Sirius
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1926 a “beater bar” was added to this company’s product; it tapped the carpet to loosen ground-in dirt
Hoover
$2400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1907 9-year-old Michael Brady posed for this company’s symbol wearing overalls, a cap & wooden shoes
Dutch Boy Paints
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company inadvertently reenergized its brand by introducing a new formula that flopped in 79 days
Coca-Cola
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| <a>This</a> Japanese car company is the only one that makes gas, Diesel & rotary internal combustion engines
Mazda
$1200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Catherine Zeta-Jones did ads for this telecom firm, the first to offer cell service on both sides of the Atlantic
T-Mobile
$1600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company had a thinnovation with its “Air” computer
Apple
$2000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This corporation has a library of more than 5,000 characters, including Dr. Strange
Marvel Comics (or Marvel Entertainment)
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This food company is named for a coffee blend made for a Monterey, Ca. hotel; it means “of the mountain” in Spanish
Del Monte
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1963 Charles Tandy bought this nearly bankrupt electronics parts supplier & made it into a top retail chain
RadioShack
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This credit card company publishes travel & leisure & is the world’s largest issuer of traveler’s checks
American Express
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Big Brother could tell you this term for a corporation that controls another company, like AMR does for American Airlines
a parent (or holding) company
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company began selling apple butter in 1900; it had to be good–a full line of jams & jellies followed
Smucker’s
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In Forbes magazine’s 2007 list of billionaires, this Omahan was again ranked No. 2, behind Bill Gates
Warren Buffett
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1990 United Brands changed its name to this to take advantage of its name recognition as a banana producer
Chiquita
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Legend has it that the design of this company’s Monsieur Bibendum logo was inspired by a pile of rubber tires
Michelin
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Her red spoon logo was introduced in 1954 & now appears on more than 200 products
Betty Crocker
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1978 he was fired as the president of Ford, only to become the new president of Chrysler
Lee Iacocca
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Just for grins, in 1986 this industrialist acquired a stake in Church & Dwight, maker of a baking soda
Armand Hammer
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| On July 16, 1995 this company made its first sale, a science textbook
Amazon.com
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year
H&R Block
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In the 1940s Borden’s came up with this companion for Elsie to be the symbol for its new white glue
Elmer