Matter of fact Interesting and unusual industry facts from around the world
matterof fact Amazon tops the smart speaker market, enjoying a 30% market share. Artificial intelligence statistics rate the Amazon Alexa as performing best at providing general information with 93% accuracy, a better outcome that any other category.
Business travellers account for 12% of passengers on airlines. However, as the business traveller pays higher rates than most customers, this market segment is much more lucrative to the airlines and nets up to 75% of an airline’s profits.
In 1950, Bic launched its massWhen Theodor Geisel was caught drinking gin as an produced ballpoint pen. Since undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he was banned from then, the company has sold over writing for the College’s humour magazine. To side-step this 100 billion ballpoint pens, which is ban, he submitted articles using his middle name, Suess, enough to draw a line to the moon going on to achieve fame as children’s author Dr Seuss. and back over 320,000 times.
Toy manufacturer Lego holds the world record for tyre production. In 2010, Lego’s tyre output was 381 million units, double Bridgestone’s marketleading production in 2011 of 190 million.
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