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Taglines of some important companies Foreign companies • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Moving Forward: Toyota The world's local bank: HSBC Always low prices. Always: Walmart Ideas for life: Panasonic It’s everywhere you want to be: VISA Eat fresh: Subway All the news that's fit to print.: The New York Times Just do it: Nike Your potential. Our passion: Microsoft Because I'm worth it: L’Oreal Don’t dream it. Drive it.: Jaguar The power of dreams.: Honda The most trusted name in news.: CNN

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Think different.: Apple

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Das auto: Volkswagen (Volkswagen dropped this tagline)

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Good food, Good Life: Nestle Impossible is nothing: Adidas Get there: Uber Life is good: LG to fly to serve: British Airways The ultimate driving machine: BMW Taking you forward: Eriksson The best a man can get: Gillette

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Britannia: Eat healthy, Think better Amul: The taste of India Thumbs Up: Taste the Thunder Surf excel: Daag Acche hain Asian Paints: Har Ghar Kuchch Kahta hai Frooti: Fresh N Juicy Raymond’s: The Complete Man Dairy Milk: Kuch meetha ho jaye Polo: The mint with a hole MRF: Tyres with Muscle Airtel: Express Yourself Tata Sky: Isko laga dala to life zingalala LIC: Zindagi ke Saath bhi, Zindagi ke bad bhi

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Chlormint: Dobara mat poochna Tata Salt: Desh ka namak Big Bazaar: naye India ka bazaar The Indian express: Journalism of Courage Videocon: The Indian Multinational

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Mentos: Dimag ki batti jala de Kit Kat: Have a break, have a kit kat ICICI Bank: Khayal Aapka Alpenlibe: Jee lalchaye, raha na jaye HDFC Std Life: Jiyo sar utha ke Reliance Industries: Growth is life Bank of Baroda: India's international Bank DHFL Home Loan: Ghar Jaisa Loan Flipkart: Ab har wish poori hogi

LOGOs of companies

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Mergers & Acquisitions 2020

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Indus Towers is acquired by Bharti Infratel.

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Car service startup AutoBrix acquires AI-based auto service company Cartisan

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Edtech unicorn Unacademy acquires UPSC test prep platform Coursavy

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Reliance Retail acquires majority stake in online pharmacy NetMeds

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Proptech startup Square Yards acquires property management Azuro

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BYJU'S acquires virtual simulations startup LabInApp

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Social media platform ShareChat acquires HPF Films

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Infosys to acquire US-based Kaleidoscope Innovation for up to $42M

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InCred acquires Vishuddha Capital, to foray into asset management

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MyGlamm acquires POPxo, aims to produce and sell beauty products at scale

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SpiceJet acqui-hires airline ecommerce technology company Travenues

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FMCG major Marico acquires Ahmedabad-based men's grooming startup Beardo

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Amazon looks to self-driving future by acquiring ride-hailing company Zoox

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HUL completes acquisition of female hygiene brand VWash from Glenmark

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IT major Infosys to acquire Simplus in $250M deal

Brand Ambassadors 2020 •

Rohit Sharma: Brand Ambassador of VEGA

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Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor: Brand Ambassador of Lays

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Ajinkya Rahane: Brand Ambassador of Hudle

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Sourav Ganguly: Brand Ambassador of JSW Cement, Bengal Peerless Housing Development Company Limited

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Amitabh Bachchan: Brand Ambassador for RBI Customer Awareness Campaign

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Aamir Khan: Brand Ambassador of Vedantu

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Aamir Khan: Brand Ambassador of CEAT Tyres

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Sonu Sood: Brand Ambassador of Acer India

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Sachin Tendulkar: Paytm First Games Brand Ambassador

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Suresh Raina: 9stacks Brand Ambassador

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Ayushman Khurrana: Toyota Urban Cruiser Brand Ambassador

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Amitabh Bachchan: Amazon’s Alexa Voice Assistant Brand Ambassador

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Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Smriti Mandhana: Brand Ambassadors of Playerzpot

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Ayushmann Khurrana: Brand Ambassador of Bajaj Allianz Life

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Dwayne Bravo: Brand Ambassador for SBOTOP

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Kiara Advani: Brand ambassador of Myntra Robin Uthappa: Brand Ambassador of Kerala-based startup named ‘Entri’.

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Yuvraj Singh: Brand Ambassador of Akash Educational Service Ltd.

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Pankaj Tripathi: Brand Ambassador of Bihar Khadi

Car companies and their native countries • • • • • • • • • • •

Toyota: Japan

Volkswagen: Germany General motors: USA Ford: USA Maruti, Tata motors: India Hyundai: South Korea Honda: Japan Fiat Chrysler: Italy Nissan: Japan BMW: Germany Kia Motors: South Korea

CEOs/chairman List Top Banks in India

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SBI Chairman: Dinesh Kumar Khara ICICI CEO & MD: Sandeep Bakhshi HDFC CEO & MD: Sashidhar Jagdishan

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Punjab National Bank CMD: SS Mallikarjuna Rao Axis bank CEO & MD: Amitabh Chaudhry Bank of Baroda MD & CEO: Sanjiv Chadha

Top E-commerce

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Flipkart: Kalyan Krishnamurthy Snapdeal: Kunal bahl Paytm: Vijay Shekhar Sharma Ola: Bhavish Aggarwal Oyo rooms: Ritesh Aggarwal Alibaba: Daniel Zhang Amazon: Jeff Bezos Uber: Dara Khosrowshahi

Some Other Important CEOs/Chairman

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Amul: R.S. Sodhi Tata group: Natarajan Chandrasekaran Birla group: Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla Reliance industries: Mr. Mukesh Ambani ITC Ltd: Sanjiv Puri (CEO & MD) Wipro: Thierry Delaporte Infosys: Salil Parekh (CEO & MD)

Some Foreign CEOs

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Apple: Tim cook Tesla motors: Elon Musk Google: Sunder Pichai Microsoft: Satya Nadella PepsiCo: Ramon Laguarta Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg Walmart: C. Douglas McMillan LinkedIn: Ryan Roslansky Twitter: jack Dorsey

Top Global Companies’ CEOs from India

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Satya Nadella - CEO, Microsoft Sundar Pichai- CEO, Google Ajaypal Singh Banga- President and CEO, MasterCard. Lakshmi Mittal- chairman and CEO, Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steelmaking company. Shantanu Narayen: CEO, Adobe

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