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Maruti Suzuki Company Facts

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Maruti Suzuki Company

Maruti Suzuki Company is a well-known car manufacturer company in India. Maruti Suzuki holds 47 percent market in the car industry. You can see every second car on Indian roads are belong to the Maruti Suzuki Company. Suzuki is basically a Japanese Company which manufactures cars in India with Maruti. Today we will learn some facts about Maruti Suzuki.

Maruti Suzuki Company

Two Companies

As you read in the upper paragraph that Maruti and Suzuki are two different companies that make Maruti Suzuki India Limited. Maruti Suzuki India Limited was known as Maruti Udyog Limited after the tie-up it became Maruti Suzuki India Limited. And Suzuki is a Japanese car and motorcycle manufacturer company known as  Suzuki Motor Corporation.

Shares

Talking about shares so Maruti has 56.21% shares of the company and Suzuki just holds 43.79% of shares.

Manufacturing

Now let see some facts about the manufacturing unit of the company.

1. 2,545 steps for a single car

To build a single car, the workers have to complete 2,545 steps. Before 2014 the steps count was 3,077.

2. Robots and automation

Robots and automation processes are also used. In 2 manufacturing plants total of 2,400 robots are used, and all are automated. Most paint shops and welding shops use robots and automation processes. Painting works require so much concentration. so the robots make the process errorless or decrease the margin of error which results in fast production.

3. 20,000 tonnes of steel

Every month 20,000 tonnes of steel are used. Half of the steel is imported from South Korea’s Posco and Japan’s Kawasaki Steel. 240,000 tonnes of steel used in a year which is enough to build 32 Eiffel Towers.

4. 70,000 litres of paint

Maruti Suzuki Company

To paint 5,000 cars, 70,000 liters of paint every day used. Sixty-five robots are installed to paint the bumpers only at two manufacturing plants at Haryana’s Manesar and Gurgaon.

 5. 4,000 plus trucks every day

Every day more than 4,000 trucks enter and leave the plant. 3,400 trucks are used to import raw materials from 2500 vendors and 600 plus trucks are used to send the cars to the dealer.

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Apple Inc. Facts

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Recently Apple Inc. reached the mark of 1 trillion net worth and become the first company to achieve this. Besides this Apple is also listed as the World’s largest IT (Information Technology) company. Apple was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steven Gary Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne in 1976. But Ronald Gerald Wayne had doubt about the company’s future so he sold his share only for $800.  Now the cost of the latest model of the Apple iPhone is $1000 which is more than Ronald Gerald Wayne get that time. If he remained the shareholder of the company to date then the value of his share would be equal to worth $35 billion. But fate has different plans. Now let’s take a look at Apple company facts :D.

Apple company facts

Apple company facts
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  1. On April 1st, 1976 Steven Paul Jobs, Steven Gary Wozniak and Ronald Gerald Wayne together founded Apple.
  2. To raise capital for the company Steve Jobs sold his car and Wozniak sold his HP (Hewlett-Packard), scientific calculator.
  3. For the first 30 years, Apple called Apple Computer. In January 2007, it changed to Apple Inc.
  4. Apple 1 was the first computer of Apple Computer. Which was sold without any case, keyboard and mouse. It was just an assembled circuit board.
  5. In 1997 Bill Gates invested $150 million in Apple to save it from bankruptcy. Today Apple is the world’s first Trillion Dollar company.
  6. In 2010 Apple surpassed Microsoft and became the most valuable technology company in the world.
  7. Later on, in August 2011 surpassed Exxon and became the most valuable company in the world.
  8. In 2012 Apple sold 340,000 iPhones per day.
  9. Apple Ipad’s Retina displayed manufactured by Samsung.
  10. Apple has 80,000+ employees all around the world.
  11. At Apple Head Quarter the average salary for the employee is $ 125,000 per annum.
  12. Apple earns $ 300,000 per minute.
  13. Only for $800, Apple’s co-founder Ronald Gerald Wayne sold his has. Today that share is worth $35 billion.
  14. Steve jobs follow Buddhism.
  15. Smoking near your Apple Computer causes the warranty void.

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15 Amazon Site Facts

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Amazon is the world’s biggest e-commerce company. 2 million sellers listed their 572 million products on Amazon worldwide. Recently it becomes the world’s second company to reach $1 trillion marks right after Apple Inc. Amazon not only works like an e-commerce company site but it is also manufacturing electronics products like Amazon Echo. Below we listed some amazing Amazon facts .

Amazon facts

  1. Amazon site was launched on July 16, 1995.
  2. It was started in the garage of the founder Jeff Bezos in Washington State.
  3. Firstly It was named Cadabra. The name is taken from the word “AbraCadabra”.
  4. Time to time it has so many names like MakeItSo.com, Awake.com,Browse.com, Bookmall.com and Relentless.com. If you go on Relentless.com it will be redirected to Amazon.com
  5. Jeff Bezos, in the end, launched Amazon.com with the tagline “Earth’s biggest bookstore”.
  6. In starting days Amazon only sold books.
  7. Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies was first books sold by Amazon.
  8. Jerry Yang (one of the founders of Yahoo) emailed Jeff Bezos after the three days of the launch of the site. In an email, Jerry asked Jeff if he’d like to be featured on Yahoo’s Whats’ Cool page. Jeff said yes, and the orders on site rapidly increased.
  9. In the first week, Amazon got an order of $12000  worth.
  10. In the beginning, there are lots of bugs/errors in the site. The bug/error allowed the customer to credit the money back in their bank account by ordering negative quantity on books.
  11. In the first month, Amazon gets the orders from the 50 countries across the world.
  12. In earlier days the used bell to notify the people in the office whenever an order is placed.
  13. Jeff Bezos, his wife MacKenzie and Shel Kaphan (Amazon’s first-ever employee) organize their meetings in local Barnes and Noble store.
  14. It takes seven years for Amazon to make the first profitable quarter.
  15. In 2012 Amazon the site went down for 49 minutes which resulted in loss of  $5.7 million.

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