Honda
Two Honda 0 Series Prototype Models to Premiere at CES 2025
19 Dec 2024
Honda announced today that it will unveil two dramatic new EV prototypes at CES 2025.
Return of an Icon: All-New Hybrid-Electric Honda Prelude Will Come to the U.S. Late Next Year
17 Dec 2024
Honda HRC Progressive Ready for 2025 Season
12 Dec 2024
With the 2025 race season opener just over a month away, Honda HRC Progressive is ready to return to action following a short and busy off-season.
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12 Dec 2024
With the 2025 race season opener just over a month away, Honda HRC Progressive is ready to return to action following a short and busy off-season.
Honda Marks 25 Years Of Hybrid-Electric Sales: Honda Introduced North America’s First Production Hybrid Model in 1999; Hybrid-Electric Models Now Represent Over 25% of Sales
12 Dec 2024
Electrified Dreams: Honda 2025 Rose Parade® Float will be Escorted by All-Electric Fleet for First Time in Parade History
12 Dec 2024
Honda to Offer New Police Motorcycle to Law-Enforcement Agencies
04 Dec 2024
American Honda today revealed a new on-road motorcycle model developed exclusively for U.S. law-enforcement agencies, and available to order exclusively through the Powersports Fleet/Government Purchase Program.
American Honda Delivers Strong November Sales Powered by Light Trucks and Electrified Models
04 Dec 2024
American Honda sales totaled 121,419 units in November (+14.5%), driven by strong sales of light truck and electrified models for both the Honda and Acura brands
Trio of Honda Civic, Accord and CR-V Threepeat as Car and Driver 10Best Winners; Honda Extends Lead as Winningest Brand in the Award’s History
03 Dec 2024
Honda has earned three coveted 2025 Car and Driver 10Best awards for the third year in a row, more than any other brand.
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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.