List of Products to Boycott

Citizens United ^ | Michael Sidiropoulos

[Michael Sidiropoulos]

FRENCH PRODUCTS

WINE AND CHAMPAGNE--DOZENS OF COMPANIES- EACH LABELED AS A PRODUCT OF FRANCE DOM PERIGNON CHAMPAIGNE CHEESE, LABELED A PRODUCT OF FRANCE DANNON YOGURT LOREAL MAKE-UP EVIAN BOTTLED WATER PERRIER SPARKLING WATER CHRISTIAN DIOR CHANEL PERFUME LANCOME MAKE-UP TOTAL GASOLINE STATIONS FINA GASOLINE STATIONS LE COQ SPORTIF, SPORTING GOODS LVMH-DONNA KARAN INTERNATIONAL LOUIS VUITTON GIVENCHY PERFUME VIVENDI-SEAGRAM AUDIOVISUAL PERNOD RICARD SA-SEAGRAM SPIRITS SODEXHO SOCIETE GENERALE PATRICK SHOES CHRISTIAN LACROIX, LEATHER GOODS AND FASHION

GERMAN PRODUCTS

SIEMANS DEUTSCHE BANK MERCEDES BMW VOLKSWAGEN BECK’S BIER ST. PAULI GIRL BIER DAIMLER/CHRYSLER BERTELSMANN-RANDOM HOUSE

[AntiGuv]

Formatting and punctuation is our friend...

[winner3000]

Go to Frenchstinks.com for a more comprehensive list. Let's keep that list growing...

[JudyB1938]

http://www.Frenchstinks.com doesn't work. Do you have the proper link?

[AntiGuv]

I have no interest in helping that list grow. There are over 500,000 Americans directly employed by these German companies, and another half million employed by French and Belgian corporations. That doesn't even account for all the American workers whose jobs inderectly depend on the economic activity generated by these businesses. Who do you think is ultimately gonna suffer the consequences if a boycott hits the French & German bottom line?

Welcome to globalization - think of it what you will - but I want no part in this self-defeating little enterprise.

[flunk]

You forgot daimler, bretzels, sauerkraut and bratwurst

its Siemens by the way...

one thing more: what is the use of all this?

[buccaneer81]

Yikes! I work for a German company.

[DB]

Actually it's Infineon now.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Who do you think is ultimately gonna suffer the consequences if a boycott hits the French & German bottom line?

Who is going to suffer if the French and German's are successful in stopping the war in Iraq. They will feel more pain from our boycott than will we. Futher, some things are simply more important than money.

[KarlInOhio]

Infineon is just the semiconductor business spun-off from Siemens. There is still a lot of Siemens left.

[KarlInOhio]

LOWER CASE LETTERS ARE PRODUCED BY FRENCH AND GERMAN COMPANIES. BOYCOTT THEM! USE ONLY AMERICAN MADE CAPITAL LETTERS. :-)

[SSN558]

A number of American companies and products are worth boycotting. Everytime you go to the grocery store you are voting with your wallet.

On my permanent sh*t list. Tyson Chicken, Sara Lee, Hormel, Morgan Stanley, and Levis.

[MadIvan]

Interbrew is one of Belgium's largest companies - do NOT drink the following beers:

Alexander Keith's
AstikA
Bass
Beck's
Belle-Vue
Bergenbier
Best Ice
Boddingtons
Bohemia
Bozicno
Borsodi Sör
Cafri
Cass
Chernigivski Pivo
Diebels Alt
Dimix
Dommelsch
Dos Equis
GB
Haake-Beck
Hertog Jan
Hoegaarden
Hougaerdse Das
Hopfen König
Jingling
Julius
Jupiler
Kamenitza
Klinskoye
Kokanee
Labatt Blue
Labatt Blue Light
Labatt Canadian Lager
Labatt (family)
Labatt Ice
La Bécasse
Leffe
Niksico Pivo
Nik Gold
OB Lager
Oranjeboom
Ozujsko Pivo
Piedboeuf
Rolling Rock
Safir
Sol
Staropramen
Stella Artois
St. Pauli Girl
Sibirskaya Korona
Taller Pils
Tecate
Tennent's
Tolstiak
Tomislav pivo
Vieux Temps
Wadworth 6X
Yali

Regards, Ivan

[SSN558]

"Yikes! I work for a German company."

I worked for Siemens a few years. I don't know if all their American divisions work this way but the one I did sure did. The German nationals had all the plumb positions in the company and all the decision making authority for better or worse. Americans were second class citizens in the Siemens world.

It came to a head when 90% of the engineers resigned over a three month period. I was among those. The company was being sued by most of their customers for poor quality product, and the the QA inspectors that did not pass specification non compliant components were gone in less that a day most of the time. To have a German manager acuse you of being unprofessional was the kiss of death for your Siemens career.

The German managers and some of their American minions engaged in certain practices that are just plain illegal in U.S. business. This was on federal government funded contracts, BTW. To the Germans it was just business as usual, they should have been advised by a lawyer, because they just didn't understand. It was far easier for them to proclaim, "we have always done it this way" and blame another American for their legal woes. Gutten morgan.

[Wild Game]

Don't forget German made firearms:

Mauser's

Walther's

CETME's

Since french kissing isn't taxable, no customs declarations, we don't need to boycott that...PLEASE say we don't!

[AntiGuv]

First of all, the economic impact of any boycott would not get felt until sometime after a war in Iraq, which suggests that it would amount to little more than an expression of vindictive spite.

Secondly, most of these multinationals operate under a subsidiary system; by example, the U.S. operations of Interbrew (which our British friend would have us boycott) are run by Beck's North America. The impact of a boycott would be felt by American workers long before it would impact the home corporation.

Third, it's an unfair act because it means to punish the people of France & Germany without having any meaningful impact on the leadership with whom your genuine quarrel derives. Why not punish the people of Britain and Spain? Polling indicates that they're less supportive of war than are the French people (and certainly less so than the German people).

Finally, it's quite self-defeating because one of the greatest risks to the American economy arises from weakness in the German (and Japanese) economies. Furthermore, we require almost $2 billion of their money daily invested in our economy so that we can service our extraordinary current account deficits.

Do whatever if it makes you feel better, but know the ramifications of what you're doing. As for myself, I'm going to carry on much the same as always. Not that my opinion's worth much in itself...