Wipro was registered in 1945 under which original name?
- A.Western India Vegetable Products Limited
- B.Hindustan Computers Limited
- C.Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
- D.Western India Petroleum Products Limited
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Western India Vegetable Products Limited. The company was registered in 1945 by M. H. Hasham Premji and made vanaspati cooking oil and laundry soap at Amalner in Maharashtra. Under Azim Premji it moved into computer hardware and then software in the late nineteen seventies, and the shortened trade name Wipro was adopted for the group, whose headquarters is at Bengaluru. Option B is wrong because Hindustan Computers Limited is the full form of HCL, founded by Shiv Nadar in 1976. Option C is wrong because the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was the 1911 original name of IBM, renamed International Business Machines in 1924. Option D is wrong because the word in the original name is vegetable and not petroleum, which is the usual distractor placed in this question.
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