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Maruti Suzuki teases its first eBorn Electric SUV; Signals robust EV ecosystem for seamless ownership experience
20 Dec 2024
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), the country's largest passenger vehicle manufacturer, is poised to transform electric mobility in India.
Maruti Suzuki signs Memorandum of Agreement with the Transport Department, Government of Bihar to automate 5 driving test tracks under its CSR initiative
18 Dec 2024
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Transport Department, Government of Bihar to automate driving license test tracks at Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Gaya, Purnia and Saran.
Maruti Suzuki WagonR Celebrates 25
18 Dec 2024
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) celebrates 25 remarkable years of the WagonR in India.
Maruti Suzuki achieves a historic production milestone of 2 million units in a calendar year
17 Dec 2024
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), the leader in the Indian passenger vehicle industry, announced a production milestone of 2 million vehicles in a calendar year for the first time in its history.
Maruti Suzuki inaugurates 500
11 Dec 2024
Maruti Suzuki India Limited today announced the inauguration of its 500th NEXA Service touchpoint. The 500th NEXA touchpoint is located in Mapusa Goa.
Maruti Suzuki collaborates with Saraswat Co-operative Bank Ltd. for retail car financing
11 Dec 2024
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), today, announced signing of a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Saraswat Co-operative Bank Ltd (Saraswat Bank).
Maruti Suzuki sales in November 2024
02 Dec 2024
Maruti Suzuki attains 3 million cumulative exports, boosts Govt’s ‘Make in India’ initiative
25 Nov 2024
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), India’s leading passenger vehicle company in domestic market and exports has attained the milestone of 3 million cumulative exports.
Maruti Suzuki Launches All-New Dzire: Unmatched Style, Unrivalled Performance
11 Nov 2024
Creating a new benchmark in the compact sedan segment, Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), today, introduced the Dazzling New Dzire with petrol and S-CNG models.
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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.