Multiple choice general knowledge

These two schoolmates started a business together to service and sell dairy equipment, and later to manufacture the equipment The outbreak of WW II gave them opportunities – repair and refit of ships, and setting up chemical plants Today, their company is a household name

  1. Larsen and Toubro

  2. Hewlett - Packard

  3. Procter & Gamble

  4. Reckitt & Colman
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Explanation

Larsen and Toubro (L&T) was founded by two Danish schoolmates Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro in Mumbai in 1938. They started with dairy equipment and expanded during WWII into ship repair and chemical plants. L&T is now a major Indian multinational conglomerate. The other companies (Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt & Colman) have different founding stories.

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