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How Garmin Can Help You Train for a Triathlon
02 Dec 2024
Whether you’re training for a sprint, standard, half or full triathlon, you need quality gear to help you get to the finish line.
How to Use Your Garmin Smartwatch While You Surf
26 Nov 2024
For some, surfing along the coast of beautiful ocean destinations is merely a dream, but for others, it’s a reality.
Which inReach Device is Right for You?
21 Nov 2024
Find out which inReach satellite communicator is right for you based on your favorite activities.
Does Your Garmin Smartwatch Tracks Naps? Here’s How It Works.
19 Nov 2024
Are you tired of waking up from naps feeling tired or wondering how much sleep you need if you nap? Track your naps with a Garmin smartwatch.
Five Factors Garmin Sleep Coach Uses to Find Your Sleep Needs
16 Nov 2024
Is seven hours of sleep enough or is nine hours of sleep too much for you? How much sleep do you need? Let Garmin Sleep Coach do the math.
How to Choose the Best Indoor Bike Trainer for You
06 Nov 2024
Which Tacx indoor bike trainer is the best for you? It depends on what you’re looking for. Garmin has an indoor bicycle trainer for everyone.
Hiking Essentials and Garmin Gear for Peace of Mind on the Trail
02 Nov 2024
Whether you're backpacking for weeks in the backcountry or taking a day hike, you need to bring these 10 essentials along to help stay safe.
Garmin Holiday Gift Guide
02 Nov 2024
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift idea? Look no further. Whether your loved one plays by land, sea or air, Garmin has just the thing.
Which Garmin Chartplotter Should I Pair with My LiveScope?
31 Oct 2024
When shopping for chartplotters that will work well with your LiveScope unit, there are three factors to consider.
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.