A.T. Kearney

One of the biggest management consulting firm in the world, the company was first established in 1926 was a part of the famous 'McKinsey & Company' in Chicgo. James McKinsey hired Andrew Thomas Kearney in 1929 as the firm's first partner. but after death of McKinsey in 1937 the Chicago office was split from rest of the company and latter it was renamed as A.T. Kearny company.

Currently the company is present globally in more than 40 countries with headquarter in Chicago.
This is the company which calculates the FDI confidenec index , a tool for benchmarking the restrictiveness of a country's FDI rules. 

Some abbreviations of common Indian Brands

Famous Indian Brands & their Abbreviations:

Havells : Haveli Ram Gandhi.

Dr.Reddy’s Pharmaceuticals:Dr.Anji Reddy

TVS: Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram (Iyengar)
ITC : Indian(Imperial) Tobacco Company.

PVR cinemas : Priya Village Roadshow

Wipro: Western India Palm and Refined Oil Corporation

ORPAT : Odhavji Raghavji Patel.

HCL: Hindustan Computers Limited.

MRF :Madras Rubber factory

MDH : Mahashian Di Hatti.

AMUL : Anand Milk Union Limited.

HDFC : Housing Development Finance Corporation

ICICI Bank : Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation Of India.

NDTV: New Delhi Television

L&T : Larsen and Toubro

IFB: Indian Fine Blanks

Ranbaxy: From the name of it’s founders Ranbir and Gurbax

*Parle is an Indian company & Bisleri is a product of Parle Bisleri Group.*

Apart from all this, Flying machine,Allen Solly, Louis philippe, Monte carlo, Munich Polo, Da milano,Franco leone, Peter England, Pan America all are Indian Companies.

Essar group

Essar Group is an Indian conglomerate. It has investments in steel,energy,infrastructure enterprises. It has over 73,000 employees.

A less known fact about the company is how it derived it's name.
It derives its name from its founders Shashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia. The initials of their names are 'S' & 'R' respectively. The initials are pronounced as 'Ess' and 'Aar'. Thus the company got its name.

The Brand Name: where it comes from?????????????

• Amul – Derived from the Sanskrit "Amoolya" meaning precious and was suggested by a quality control expert in Anand.

• Coca-Cola – Derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. Coca-Cola creator John S. Pemberton changed the 'K' of kola to 'C' to make the name look better.

• Dabur - Dr. S.K. Burman, laid the foundations of what is today known as Dabur India Limited. The brand name Dabur is derived from the words 'Da' for ‘Daktar’ or ‘Doctor’ and 'bur' from Burman.

• Facebook – Name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

• Google – an originally accidental misspelling of the word googol and settled upon because google.com was unregistered. Googol, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes was proposed to reflect the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.

• HBO – Home Box Office

• Hotmail –When Sabeer Bhatia & Jack Smith came up with the business plan for the mail service he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "HTML" – the markup language used to write web pages.

• Nokia – started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia. The company later adopted the city's name.

• Skype – the original concept for the name was Sky-Peer-to-Peer, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype.

• Tanishq – it has been formed by combining "Ta" (the first two letters of Tata) and "Nishk or Nishkh" (meaning gold coin or necklace in Sanskrit).

Burger King

 

 Burger King

Founded in  : Florida United States
Began In :1953(With name Insta Burger King)

After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954, its two Miami-based franchisees, David Edgerton and James McLamore, purchased the company and renamed it Burger King.

 Owners of company in subsequent years:

TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners,: In 2002
3G Capital of Brazil: form 2010 to current

Blogger

So we are publishing on blogger , it could have its own story 
ya it is.
Blogger was developed by Pyra Labs in 1999 which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com.

Yamaha

Yamaha, famous  for its motorbikes is actually started its business  to make musical instruments in 1887 by Torakusu Yamaha(men who pioneered the western musical instruments in Japan).Started with a name Nippon Gakki Company, Limited , Torakusu Yamaha first made a reed organ and deliver it to the then Music Institute (today's Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music).

Yamaha has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments (including pianos, "silent" pianos, drums, guitars, brass instruments, woodwinds, violins, violas, celli, and vibraphones), as well as a leading manufacturer of semiconductors, audio/visual, computer related products, sporting goods, home appliances, specialty metals and industrial robots.

After world war 2 the company started to manufacture motorcycles.

DLF Limited (Delhi Land & Finance)

DLF Limited (Delhi Land & Finance)  is the largest commercial real estate developer in India by revenue, profit, and market share. It was founded by Raghuvendra Singh in 1946 and is based in New Delhi, India.DLF developed residential colonies in Delhi such as Shivaji Park (their first development), Rajouri Garden, Krishna Nagar, South Extension, Greater Kailash, Kailash Colony, and Hauz Khas. DLF builds residential, office, and retail properties.

With the passage of Delhi Development Act in 1957, the local government assumed control of real estate development in Delhi and banned private real estate developers. As a result DLF began acquiring land at relatively low cost outside the area controlled by the Delhi Development Authority, in the district of Gurgaon. In the mid-1970s, the company started developing their DLF City project at Gurgaon.

The company is headed by Indian billionaire Kushal Pal Singh.

Lego

 

Lego[a] is a popular line of construction toys manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts. Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects. Lego began manufacturing interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Since then a global Lego subculture has developed, supporting movies, games, competitions, and six themed amusement parks

Amul India

An Indian Dairy Cooperative
Head quarter: Anand , Gujrat, India.
Key people :Chairman, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF)
Founded 1946

The Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Ltd. was registered on 1 December 1946 as a response to the exploitation of marginal milk producers by traders or agents of the only existing dairy, the Polson (brand) dairy, in the small town of Anand (in Kaira District of Gujarat).Milk producers had to travel long distances to deliver milk, which often went sour in summer, to Polson.Moreover, the government at that time had given monopoly rights to Polson to collect milk from Anand and supply it to Bombay city.



Angered by the unfair trade practices, the farmers of Kaira approached Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel under the leadership of local farmer leader Tribhuvandas K. Patel. He advised them to form a cooperative and supply milk directly to the Bombay Milk Scheme instead of Polson (who did the same but gave them low prices). He sent Morarji Desai to organise the farmers. In 1946, the milk farmers of the area went on a strike which led to the setting up of the cooperative to collect and process milk. Milk collection was decentralized, as most producers were marginal farmers who could deliver atmost 1–2 litres of milk per day. Cooperatives were formed for each village too.
The Cooperative was further developed and managed by Dr.Verghese Kurien along with H.M. Dalaya. Dalaya's innovation of making skim milk powder from buffalo milk for the first time anywhere in the world and a little later, along with Kurien's help, making it on a commercial scale, led to the first modern dairy of the cooperative at Anand, which would compete against established players in the market.

The trio's (T. K. Patel, Kurien and Dalaya's) success at the cooperative's dairy soon spread to Anand's neighbourhood in Gujarat, and within a short span, five unions in other districts – Mehsana, Banaskantha, Baroda, Sabarkantha and Surat were set up. In order to combine forces and expand the market while saving on advertising and avoid competing against each other, the GCMMF, an apex marketing body of these district cooperatives was set up in 1973. The Kaira Union which had the brand name of Amul with it since 1955, transferred it to GCMMF.

BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG  (English: Bavarian Motor Works), commonly known as BMW, is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1917. BMW is headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad. BMW is part of the "German Big 3" luxury automakers, along with Audi and Mercedes-Benz, which are the three best selling luxury automakers in the world.

BMW was established as a business entity following a restructuring of the Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft manufacturing firm in 1917. After the end of World War I in 1918, BMW was forced to cease aircraft engine production by the terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. The company consequently shifted to motorcycle production in 1923, once the restrictions of the treaty started to be lifted followed by automobiles in 1928–29.
The first car which BMW successfully produced and the car which launched BMW on the road to automobile production was the Dixi, it was based on the Austin 7 and licensed from the Austin Motor Company in Birmingham, England.

Lamborghini

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of luxury sports cars which is owned by the German Volkswagen Group through its subsidiary Audi. Lamborghini's production facility and headquarters are located in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy.

Automobile Lamborghini S.p.A, commonly referred to as Lamborghini, is the Italian manufacturer of expensive luxury sports cars, known for producing high-performance, stylish and high speed and two-door, two-seated sport cars that serve as a great competition to Ferrari.

The company is named after its founder Ferruccio Lamborghini who was a successful tractor manufacturer before he got interested in sports cars. It was his interest in sports cars that made him buy many different high-performance cars including both Maseratis and Ferraris. He founded his own company in 1963, which used to be an independent company, but now it is a subsidiary of the German company Audi AG. Lamborghini went bankrupt in 1978 and was sold to Chrysler a long time before Audi AG became the sole owner of the company in 1988.
Lamborghini has rolled out models such as the four-seat Espada and various V8 sports cars, but it is their mid engine super cars that have gained significant popularity.

Unilever

Unilever is an Anglo–Dutch multinational consumer goods company. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world's third-largest consumer goods company measured by 2011 revenues (after Procter & Gamble and Nestlé) and the world's largest maker of ice cream.

 Industry     Consumer goods
Founded     1930
Founder(s)    Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh and William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme
Headquarters     Unilever House,London, United Kingdom Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Area served     Worldwide
Key people     Michael Treschow (Chairman),Paul Polman,(CEO)
Products     Foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products

Land rover

Land Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles. It is owned by the Indian company Tata Motors, forming part of their Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) group. It is the second oldest four-wheel-drive car brand in the world (after Jeep)
 In 1994 Rover Group plc was acquired by BMW. In 2000 Rover Group was broken-up by BMW and Land Rover was sold to Ford Motor Company, becoming part of its Premier Automotive Group. In June 2008 Ford sold both Land Rover and Jaguar Cars to Tata Motors

Skoda auto

Škoda Auto

Škoda Auto is one of the largest car manufacturers in Central Europe. In 2010, 762,500 cars were sold worldwide, a record for the company.
Škoda Works was established as an arms manufacturer in 1859.

Parent	Volkswagen Group

Type	Private company
Industry	Automotive
Founded	1895 as Laurin & Klement
Founder(s)	Václav Laurin and Václav Klement
Headquarters	Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Agence France-Presse(AFP)

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet.
AFP is based in Paris, with regional centres in Washington, Hong Kong, Nicosia, São Paulo, Montevideo and bureaux in 110 countries. It transmits news in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, and Portuguese.
The agency was founded in 1835 by a Parisian translator and advertising agent, Charles-Louis Havas as Agence Havas. Two of his employees, Paul Reuter and Bernhard Wolff, later set up rival news agencies in London and Berlin respectively. In order to reduce overheads and develop the lucrative advertising side of the business, Havas’s sons, who had succeeded him in 1852, signed agreements with Reuter and Wolff, giving each news agency an exclusive reporting zone in different parts of Europe. This arrangement lasted until the 1930s, when the invention of short-wave wireless improved and cut communications costs. To help Havas extend the scope of its reporting at a time of great international tension, the French government financed up to 47% of its investments. When German forces occupied France in 1940, the news agency was taken over by the authorities and renamed the French Information Office (FIO); only the private advertising company retained the name Havas.

Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation  is an American global technology company and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, as Integrated Electronics Corporation (though a common misconception is that "Intel" is from the word intelligence) and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, Intel's "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.

Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, and this represented the majority of its business until 1981. While Intel created the first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971, it was not until the success of the personal computer (PC) that this became their primary business. During the 1990s, Intel invested heavily in new microprocessor designs fostering the rapid growth of the computer industry. During this period Intel became the dominant supplier of microprocessors for PCs, and was known for aggressive and sometimes controversial tactics in defense of its market position, particularly against AMD, as well as a struggle with Microsoft for control over the direction of the PC industry. The 2010 rankings of the world's 100 most powerful brands published by Millward Brown Optimor showed the company's brand value at number 48.
Intel has also begun research in electrical transmission and generation.

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated  is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development.

Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. The company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek in Los Altos, California, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders.Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005, which added newer software products and platforms such as Coldfusion, Dreamweaver, Flash and Flex to its product portfolio.

As of August 2009, Adobe Systems has 7,564 employees,about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe also has major development operations in Orlando, FL; Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA; Orem, UT; Ottawa, Ontario; Minneapolis, MN; Waltham, MA; San Luis Obispo, CA; Hamburg, Germany; Noida, India; Bangalore, India; Bucharest, Romania; Beijing, China.

Bing

Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine")from Microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego. It went fully online on June 3, 2009, with a preview version released on June 1, 2009.
Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions as queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explorer pane") based on[4] semantic technology from Powerset that Microsoft purchased in 2008.
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.


"Bing is often referred to as a recursive acronym for BING Is Not Google"
History of Bing:-
MSN Search:

MSN Search was a search engine by Microsoft that comprised a search engine, index, and web crawler. MSN Search first launched in the third quarter of 1998 and used search results from Inktomi.

Windows Live Search 
The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta.

Live Search

On March 21, 2007, Microsoft announced that it would separate its search developments from the Windows Live services family, rebranding the service as Live Search. Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft's Platform and Systems division. As part of this change, Live Search was merged with Microsoft adCenter.
Yahoo! search deal
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that they had made a 10-year deal in which the Yahoo! search engine would be replaced by Bing. Yahoo! will get to keep 88% of the revenue from all search ad sales on its site for the first five years of the deal, and have the right to sell adverts on some Microsoft sites. Yahoo! Search will still maintain its own user interface, but will eventually feature "Powered by Bing" branding.

Apple Inc

Apple Inc.(previously Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; Logic Studio, a suite of music production tools; and iOS, a mobile operating system. As of August 2010, the company operates 301 retail stores in ten countries, and an online store where hardware and software products are sold.

Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was previously named Apple Computer, Inc., for its first 30 years, but removed the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007, to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers. As of September 25, 2010, Apple had 46,600 full time employees and 2,800 temporary full time employees worldwide and had worldwide annual sales of $65.23 billion.

For reasons as various as its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design to its distinctive advertising campaigns, Apple has established a unique reputation in the consumer electronics industry. This includes a customer base that is devoted to the company and its brand, particularly in the United States.Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The company has also received widespread criticism for its contractors' labor, environmental, and business practices.

industry: Computer hardware,Computer software,Consumer electronics,Digital distribution



Key people Steve Jobs (Co-founder, Chairman, CEO)
                      Tim Cook (COO)
                     Peter Oppenheimer (CFO)
                       Bob Mansfield  (Mac and iPhone Hardware Engineering)
                         Jonathan Ive (Industrial Design)