Try this brand if you get a chance.
Posted on 06/12/2017 10:44:19 PM PDT by Lera
Smirnoff Vodka has taken trolling to a whole new level in an ad mocking the alleged Trump-Russia controversy.
Former FBI Director James Comey testified in a hearing last week that President Trump was not personally under investigation for collusion with Russia, totally destroying the MSM narrative that many leftists had hoped would lead to the destruction of the current administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at allenbwest.com ...
MARKETING MEETING: “Hey, I have an idea, let’s turn-off half our customer base and potential customers!”
Boycott or have a sense of humor. I choose to laugh at the silliness of it all.
I choose to boycott.
There’s a MILLION other brands to buy.
They just messed up.
They are TARGETED.
No one learns from Target.
The hell with vodka. Just give me some good ol American bourbon on the rocks maybe with a splash of coke and I’m good!
Try this brand if you get a chance.
Thanks for the tip. To me whether it’s neat, on the rocks, or part of a simple cocktail bourbon is always a great drink to relax with.
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
Agreed. It makes light of a cherished Democrat narrative, and for a capitalistic, commercial purpose!
BTW, Smirnoff belongs to Diageo, a British multinational booze company which owns a portfolio of booze brands.
No problem
The Merinoff family doesn’t need our momey to give to democrats
Hey let’s get idiots to say the name of our product thousands of times on the air and on the web for free, over and over and over again.
West doing his usual best, helping to make it a marketing coup by raising its profile as much as he can.
This is what you get from people who have no better ideas.
Other than being in the booze biz, what connection does the Merinoff family have to Smirnoff?
Used to told this was the Smirnoff vodka family
Back in the day when i worked at a camp for uber rich kids who bragged about their family wealth
Agree. Thought it was funny and not mean spirited (pardon the pun).
Rather amusing, to be honest.
At least there’s no decapitation involved.
Vodka is pretty much vodka no matter what name is on it. Not much difference between the cheap stuff and the expensive stuff. So buy Popov instead. It’s cheaper and gets you where your going just as well as Grey Goose. You cant taste the stuff at all after you mix it anyhow.
Swearing on the Wikipedia, here is Smirnoff's opening statement on its Russia connection:
Pyotr Smirnov founded his vodka distillery in Moscow in 1864 under the trading name of PA Smirnoff, pioneering charcoal filtration in the 1870s, and becoming the first to utilize newspaper ads along with charitable contributions to the clergy to stifle anti-vodka sermons, capturing two-thirds of the Moscow market by 1886. His brand was reportedly a Tsar favorite. When Pyotr died, he was succeeded by his third son Vladimir Smirnov (1875–1939). The company flourished and produced more than 4 million cases of vodka per year.
In 1904, the Tsar nationalized the Russian vodka industry and Vladimir Smirnov was forced to sell his factory and brand. During the October Revolution of 1917, the Smirnov family had to flee the country. Vladimir Smirnov re-established a factory in 1920 in Constantinople (present day Istanbul). Four years later he moved to Lwów (formerly Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) and started to sell the vodka under the contemporary French spelling of the name, "Smirnoff". The new product sold marginally well but not nearly as it had in Russia prior to 1904. An additional distillery was founded in Paris in 1925; however the company was a shadow of its former self.
In the 1930s, Vladimir met Rudolph Kunett, a Russian who had emigrated to America in the 1920s and became a successful businessman in New York City. The Kunett family had been a supplier of grains to Smirnoff in Moscow before the Revolution. In 1933, Vladimir sold Kunett the right to begin producing Smirnoff vodka in North America. He then returned to the United States, quit his sales job, and established his first North American distillery in Bethel, Connecticut, USA in 1933. However, the business in America was not as successful as Kunett had hoped. In 1938 Kunett could not afford to pay for the necessary sales licences, and contacted John Martin, president of Heublein. Heublein was a company that specialized in the import and export of liquors and foreign foods. Using the $14,000 that the Heublein company made from a new product that ended up saving them from bankruptcy, A1 Steak Sauce, Martin bought the rights to Smirnoff in 1939. His board thought he was mad. Americans were traditionally whiskey drinkers unfamiliar with vodka and so sales were very slow. In a marketing move they changed the product to use whiskey corks instead and branded it as a "white whiskey" with "no taste, no smell".[6] Sales picked up considerably after that.
In 1982, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company acquired Heublein Inc. for $1.4 billion. RJR Nabisco sold the division to Grand Metropolitan in 1987. Ironically, in 1985 Heublein Corporate Audit Manager Hanson J Kan had recommended to Heublein that they buy out the Grand Metropolitan IDV Smirnoff licensee with its global licensee locations.[7] Grand Metropolitan merged with Guinness to form Diageo in 1997.
How are they related to Smirnoff?
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