Logo Quiz of the Day : 670

Have you registered your team at www.supercricteam.com?
Hint: Footwear.
Answer: Crocs, Inc.
Crocs, Inc. is a shoe manufacturer founded by entrepreneur George B. Boedecker, Jr. to produce and distribute a foam clog design acquired from a Quebec company called Foam Creations. The shoe had originally been developed as a spa shoe. The first model produced by Crocs, the Crocs Beach, was unveiled in 2002 at the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show, and sold out the 200 pairs produced at that time.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 669

Hint: Coffee house
Answer:  Caribou Coffee
Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU) is a specialty coffee and espresso retailer, the second largest in the United States after Starbucks. Caribou sells coffee, tea, and bakery goods in 415 company-owned coffeehouses in 16 states and the District of Columbia, as well as 126 franchise locations worldwide.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 668

Hint: Its products are made to kill and they do.
Answer: Glock Ges.m.b.H
Glock Ges.m.b.H. (trademarked as GLOCK) is a weapons manufacturer headquartered in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria, named after its founder, Gaston Glock. While the company is best known for its line of striker-fired polymer-framed pistols, it also produces field knives, entrenching tools and apparel.
Glock handguns are used by armed forces and law enforcement organizations worldwide, including a majority of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Glock handguns are also very popular with civilians for personal protection and practical shooting, and the company sponsors a competitive shooting team which travels worldwide. As of 2007, Glock produces more than two dozen models of handguns in seven different calibers.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 667

Hint: Container company
Answer: Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, and a cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises which is now intregrated into TUI AG, Hanover. It was formed in 1970 as a merger of two 19th century companies, Hapag, which dated from 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL), which was formed in 1856. Hapag-Lloyd was acquired in 1998 by TUI AG (Hanover) and became its fully owned subsidiary in 2002. In 2009, TUI sold a majority stake to a group of private investors.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 666

Hint: Down to the Antipodes
Answer:  The 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup
The 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the eleventh Cricket World Cup, and will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The location of the games will be evenly split, with the location of the final yet to be decided. ICC unveiled the Logo of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 after the final of Cricket World Cup 2011 on 2 April 2011.
The hosting rights were awarded at the same time as those of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, which New Zealand and Australia had originally bid to host, and the 2019 Cricket World Cup. The 2011 tournament was awarded to the four Asian Test cricket playing countries India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in a 10 to 3 vote (although Pakistan subsequently lost its hosting rights due to security concerns). The International Cricket Council were sufficiently impressed with the trans-Tasman bid that it was decided to award the next world cup to them.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 665

Hint: In news for wrong reasons.
Answer: Galleon Group
Galleon Group was one of the largest hedge fund management firms in the world before announcing its closure in October 2009. The firm was at the center of a 2009 insider trading scandal that resulted in investors pulling capital from the firm rapidly. Galleon is headquartered in New York City.
The firm was founded by Raj Rajaratnam, a former equity research analyst at Needham & Company, in 1997. Rajaratnam was arrested in October 2009 along with five others and charges with multiple counts of fraud and insider trading. He has pleaded not guilty and is currently free on a $100 million bond. He was indicted by a grand jury in December.
The firm is named for the galleon, a large sailing ship used from the 16th to 18th centuries in Europe.

Logo Quiz of the Day : 664

Answer: D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. is a global investment and technology development firm based in New York, New York whose activities center on many aspects of the intersection between technology and finance. The firm was founded by David E. Shaw, who was formerly a faculty member in the computer science department at Columbia University. The firm, through various affiliates, specializes in applying quantitative and qualitative trading strategies to hedge fund management and other investments. It makes private equity investments in early-stage and established firms involved in technology, health care, and financial services. It also acquires assets of distressed companies.

As recently as August 2008, the firm, described by Fortune in 1996 as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street," managed nearly $40 billion in aggregate capital, making it one of the world's largest hedge funds by assets under management.