MNCs Quiz
Multinational companies often spend a huge amount of money on catchy slogans and memorable catchphrases in order to get us to know/remember their brands and to buy their products.
How many of these well-known slogans or catchphrases do you know?
Complete the second column in the table below by using the business slogans or catchphrases shown in the third column.
Letter | Company | Background/slogan |
A | The company that ‘Changes Everything, Again’ with the likes of its iPhones, iPods and iPads. | |
B | The American fast food chain that lets you ‘Have it your way’. | |
C | The soft drinks giant that let you have ‘The real thing’ so that ‘Life tastes good.’ | |
D | German logistics multinational owned by Deutsche Post that tells its customers ‘We move the world!’ | |
E | The online company that wants you to ‘Buy it, sell it, love it.’ | |
F | ‘We live to deliver’, so claims the world’s largest cargo airline. | |
G | American multinational corporation known for producing automobile brands as Buick, Cadillac and Chevrolet as they like seeing ‘People in motion’. | |
H | Taiwanese company that is ‘quietly brilliant’ at producing smartphones and tablet computers. | |
I | American multinational semiconductor and microchip maker, headquartered “inside” Santa Clara, California | |
J | American multinational pharmaceutical known as ‘The Family Company’ set up in the same year as Coca-Cola, Colgate and Arsenal Football Club (must have been a red and white year in 1886!) | |
K | The American multinational that wants you to ‘Have a doughnut day’. | |
L | The Danish toy maker that wants you to build stuff and ‘Play on’. | |
M | The world’s largest fast food chain, and the largest buyer of beef and potatoes, set up by Ray Kroc in 1955 – who if alive today would be saying ‘I’m lov’in it’. | |
N | Swiss food maker of Kit Kat, who want us to ‘Have a break, Have a Kit Kat’. | |
O | Silicon Valley B2B multinational that specialises in both hardware and software and is ‘Information driven’. | |
P | The Japanese electronics multinational that has ‘Ideas for life’. | |
Q | Founded in Queensland and Northern Territory, this Aerial Service company is ‘The world’s most experienced airline’ and ‘The spirit of Australia’. | |
R | Now part of the German sportswear company Adidas, this sports apparel company wants us to claim ‘I am What I am’. | |
S | South Korean conglomerate that is ‘Digitally Yours’. | |
T | Japan and the world’s largest carmaker that want us to shout out ‘Oh, what a feeling!’ as you’re ‘Moving forward’. | |
U | This US multinational company would never merge with FedEx, otherwise we’d have Fed-Up(!) instead of ‘What can Brown do for you?’ | |
V | The British telecommunications giant that likes to ‘Make the Most of Now’ and likes to give ‘Power to you’. | |
W | The multinational retailer that dropped the hyphen in its name in 2008 and employs more people in America than the US government, and wants its customers to ‘Save Money. Live Better’. | |
X | ‘The document company’ founded in 1906 in the USA that manufactures printers and photocopiers. | |
Y | American multinational internet corporation located in California, that offers various services, such as mail, news, music and so on; even uses an exclamation mark in its name! | |
Z | Spanish multinational clothes retailer that has made Rosalía Mera Spain’s richest woman. |
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