Logo Quiz of the Day : 355

Hint: Pharma company, popular in eye care.
Answer: Bausch & Lomb
Bausch & Lomb is an American  company based in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today. In addition to this main activity, in recent years the area of medical technology (medicines, implants for eye diseases) has been developed. Bausch & Lomb became well known because of its famous Ray-Ban  brand of sunglasses, which was sold in 1999 to the Italian Luxottica  Group. Today, the company employs about 13,000 people in 36 countries. The company was founded in 1853 by two Germans, John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb.
Jacob Bausch was a trained optician  and in Henry Lomb, he found the financier and partner he needed for a small but ambitious workshop producing monocles. Initially in 1861, the company manufactured Vulcanite  rubber eyeglass frames and other precision vision products. Answer Here (5)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 354

Hint: Japanese pharma company.
Answer: Eisai Co., Ltd.
Eisai Co., Ltd. is one of the leading global pharmaceutical companies, ranking among the top 25 and achieving $8 billion USD in sales for the fiscal 2008 year. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it has some 10,000 employees, among them about 1,500 in research.
Eisai Inc., the American subsidiary of Eisai Co., Ltd. officially established in 1995, is one of only four companies in the United States to ever reach $1 billion in revenue within just five years. Answer Here (5)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 353

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: Astellas Pharma Inc.
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, formed on 1 April 2005 from the merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd..

Astellas' franchise areas are urology, immunology (transplantation), dermatology, cardiology, and infectious disease. Priority areas for R&D are infectious diseases, diabetes, gastrointestinal diseases, oncology, and diseases of the central nervous system. Answer Here (6)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 352

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: Solvay S.A
Solvay S.A. is a Belgian chemical company. It was founded in 1863 by Ernest Solvay to produce sodium carbonate by the solvay process. Since then the company has diversified to two major sectors of activity: chemicals and plastics. It was formerly also active in pharmaceuticals, but agreed to sell that entire division to Abbott Labs for €4.5 billion in September 2009, a deal completed in February 2010. Answer Here (5)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 351

Hint: Japanese pharma company.
Answer: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and Asia and a top 15 pharmaceutical company, employing over 19,000 employees and achieving $15.7 billion USD in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year. The company is focused on metabolic disorders, gastroenterology, neurology, inflammation, as well as oncology  through its independent subsidiary Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals was first founded on June 12, 1781 and was incorporated on January 29, 1925. Answer Here (9)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 350

Hint: US pharma major.
Answer: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb, often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquarted in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation. Squibb was founded in 1858 by Edward Robinson Squibb in Brooklyn, New York, while Bristol-Myers was founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, New York (both were graduates of Hamilton College). Answer Here (7)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 349

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is a diversified pharmaceuticals  health care company. It has 72,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, located near North Chicago, Illinois.

Abbott Laboratories was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888. In 2008, Abbott had over $29 billion in revenue.

In 1985, the company developed the first HIV blood screening test. The company's drug portfolio includes Humira, a drug for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, moderate to severe chronic psoriasis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis; Norvir, a treatment for HIV; Depakote, an anticonvulsant drug; and Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid hormone. Abbott also has a broad range of medical devices, diagnostics and immunoassay products as well as nutritional products, including Ensure, a line of well known meal replacement shakes, and EAS, the largest producer of performance based nutritional supplements. Answer Here (8)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 348

Hint: Pharma major
Answer: Merck & Co.
Merck & Co., Inc., also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The headquarters of the company is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township. It was established in 1891 as the United States subsidiary of the German company now known as Merck KGaA. In common with many other German assets in the United States, Merck & Co. was confiscated in 1917 during World War I and set up as an independent company. It is currently one of the seven largest pharmaceutical companies in the world both by market capitalization and revenue.

Merck publishes the The Merck Manuals, a series of medical reference books that includes the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the world's best-selling medical textbook, and the Merck Index, a collection of information about chemical compounds. Answer Here (8)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 347

Hint: Pharma company.
Answer: AstraZeneca plc
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB  and British Zeneca Group plc. Zeneca had been part of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), as three divisions that were spun off from ICI on 1 June 1993.  It is a public company and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and the OMX exchange. It is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company has its head office in the City of Westminster, London. Answer Here (4)

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Logo Quiz of the Day : 346

Hint: Coming soon.
Answer: The French Open or Roland Garros
The French Open is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar and the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world. Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam still held on clay and ends the spring clay court season.

It is one of the most prestigious events in tennis, and it has the widest worldwide broadcasting and audience of all regular events in this sport. Because of the slow playing surface and the five-set men's singles matches without a tiebreak in the final set, the event is widely considered to be the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world. Answer Here (11)

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