MDH

An Indian manufacturer, distributor and exporter of ground spices and spice mixtures under the brand name MDH. It specializes in several unique traditional blends of spices suitable for different recipes.

The company was founded in 1919 by Mahashay Chuni Lal as a small shop in Sialkot.

Mahashay Chuni Lal started the enterprise in Sialkot (now in Pakistan) on April 13, 1919. In a few years, the spices became very famous and they came to be known as "Deggi Mirch Wale" (the Pot Chilli People), after the name of one of their famous spice mixtures.

 After the partition of India, Mahashay Dharam Pal, the son of the founder, shifted to Delhi and opened up his shop at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol Bagh under the banner "Mahashian Di Hatti of Sialkot (Deggi Mirch wale)". The name Mahashian Di Hatti means "the Shop of the Magnanimous" in Punjabi.

Headquartered in Delhi, India.

HAMDARD

Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories, India is a famous pharmaceutical company in India known for its Unani and Ayurvedic products. It is the world's largest manufacturer of Unani medicines.

 It was established in 1906 by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed (a well-known Unani practitioner of his time)  in Delhi, and became a waqf (non-profitable trust) in 1948.

The name Hamdard means "empathizer" or "companion in suffering" in Urdu language.

Headquartered in Ghaziabad, UP, India.

LAYS

The brand name for a number of potato chip varieties. Lay's chips are marketed as a division of Frito-Lay, a company owned by PepsiCo Inc. since 1965.

In 1932 salesman Herman W. Lay opened a snack food operation in Nashville, Tennessee and, in 1938, he purchased the Atlanta, Georgia potato chip manufacturer "Barrett Food Company," renaming it "H.W. Lay & Company."  The business shortened its name to "the Lay's Company" in 1944.
In 1961, the Frito Company founded by Elmer Doolin and Lay's merged to form Frito-Lay Inc., a snack food giant with combined sales of over $127 million annually, the largest of any manufacturer.

In 1965, Frito-Lay merged with the Pepsi-Cola Company to form PepsiCo, Inc.

Based in US.

DUREX

Trademarked name for a range of condoms made by UK-based multinational SSL International.

Founded by Stephen O'Kennedy in London, 1915.

The name, which the London Rubber Company trademarked in 1929, is a portmanteau of "Durability, Reliability, and Excellence", though some people mistake it as being "Durable Latex" or "During Sex".

Headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

NIVEA

A global skin- and body-care brand,owned by the German company Beiersdorf.

 The company began in 1911 when Beiersdorf developed a water-in-oil emulsifier as a skin cream with Eucerit, the first stable emulsion of its kind.

The company's owner, Oskar Troplowitz, named it Nivea, from the Latin word niveus/nivea/niveum (meaning snow-white).

Based in Germany.

REVLON

An American cosmetics company.

Revlon was founded in 1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph, along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the "L" in the REVLON name.

Headquartered in New York City, New York, United States

TISSOT

A Swiss watchmaker company, has been a member of the The Swatch Group Ltd., the largest watch producer and distributor in the world, since 1983.

Founded in 1853 by Charles-Felicien Tissot and his son Charles-Emile who established the Tissot factory in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel area of the Jura Mountains.

Based in Le Locle, Switzerland

TAG HEUER

A Swiss luxury watchmaker known for its sports watches and chronographs. It is a division of luxury goods company LVMH.

Edouard Heuer founded a watchmaking company in St-Imier, Switzerland in 1960.

TAG Heuer was formed in 1985 when TAG (Techniques d'Avant Garde), manufacturers of high-tech items such as ceramic turbochargers for Formula One cars, acquired Heuer.

Headquartered in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

SWATCH

Swatch is a brand name for a line of wrist watches from the Swatch Group, a Swiss conglomerate with vertical control of the production of Swiss watches and related products. The biggest watch manufacturer in the world.

The first meaning of the name "Swatch" was "Second Watch" -- because the new watch was introduced with a new concept of watches as casual, fun, and relatively disposable accessories. However Franz Sprecher conceived it as the contraction of Swiss (Made) Watch: "S'Watch", soon became "Swatch" as it is today perceived worldwide.

 It was formed in 1983 through the merging of the two Swiss watch manufacturers ASUAG and SSIH, and took its present name in 1998 (formerly SMH Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries Ltd). The company is led by G. Nicolas (Nick) Hayek, Jr., son of the co-founder and current chairman Nicolas Hayek.

In 1982, Swatch was conceived and it was introduced to the market in Switzerland in March 1983. The first collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced on March 1, 1983 in Zürich, Switzerland.

Headquartered in Biel, Switzerland.

YAMAHA

A multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, motorcycles, power sports equipment, and electronics.

Yamaha was established in 1897 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited (Literally Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co.) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture.

The company's origins as a musical instrument manufacturer is still reflected today in the group's logo—a trio of interlocking tuning forks.

Headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan.