Posted on 02/22/2006 1:52:27 AM PST by restornu
United Arab Emirates:
Sales of UAE-based Mecca Cola have tripled since the cartoon row began.
The company is planning to list on the Dubai stock market, in a process that could take over a year. Average monthly demand in Malaysia was 500,000 cans a month in 2005, but distributors in Malaysia are now demanding 1.5m cans a month, according to the company.
Mecca Cola challenges US rival(BBC News Online)
Mr Mathlouthi says America must change its policies Coke is no longer it. Or at least it won't be if Tawfik Mathlouthi has anything to do with it.
Ultimately it is the consumer who will make the decision
Coca-Cola
Mr Mathlouthi is the French entrepreneur behind Mecca Cola, a new soft drink designed to cash in on anti-American sentiment around the world.
He hopes to make Mecca Cola the soft drink of choice for Muslims everywhere and thus push out that icon of American capitalism Coca-Cola.
It is all about combating "America's imperialism and Zionism by providing a substitute for American goods and increasing the blockade of countries boycotting American goods," Mr Mathlouthi told BBC News Online.
It is not the first time Coca-Cola has been the target of a "buy Muslim" challenge. Zamzam Cola, an Iranian drink named after a holy spring in Mecca, has won an enthusiastic reception in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
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Dubai is a city built on free trade, openness to foreign investment and good business practice. This is nothing new.
In 1901 Sheikh Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum established Dubai as a free port, abolished all tariffs and began a programme to persuade merchants from the Iranian city of Lingah to relocate to the Dubai Creek.
A natural harbour the Creek was critical to the early development of Dubai. But even by the Second World War Dubai was still a small town with a population of around 20,000.
'Made from the blood of infidels'
note to self,,,,buy stock in Mecca Cola
PC COLA UPDATE
Their slogan could be "Lose all your weight!...
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