[patent]

Hate to rain on your parade, but....This drop is based on 1st qtr sales drop, not the sudden Whoopi controversy

Unilever shares down on sales stall 'Action being taken' to address sales disappointment By Emily Church, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 9:46 AM ET April 28, 2004 LONDON (CBS.MW) -

Joe,

I'm not necessarily suggesting that the drop yesterday was from this whole boycott, I don't know either way. However, your article was dated back on April 28, 2004. UN dropped 6% that day. Yesterday's drop was a new 2% drop, and it occured after the news you posted had been factored in for over three months.

I seriously doubt your article and the things it discussed were the cause of yesterday's drop.

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[usflagwaver]

Besides, a previous poster talked about how Lipton had continued to support the Dixie Chix after they opened their big mouths. Couldn't the previous drop in sales have been attributed to that? And now Unilever didn't want to suffer more loss of sales, so they took Whoopi's picture off the site.