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PARIS, Mar 24, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- These are worrying days for fromages.com. Until recently, the French Internet cheese exporter was turning over brisk sales from its primarily U.S.-based clientele. Today, e-mail messages are still flooding in -- not with orders, however, but with angry letters from former American customers. "My wife and I have decided to boycott all French products," wrote one, signed simply A.M., adding he would buy more Spanish and Italian ones instead. "I cannot believe that France can treat the U.S.A as it does. It is ridiculous and unacceptable." Overall, the company's sales...

France's Opposition to War Gives Momentum to Boycott of French Products Mar 22, 2003 (The Washington Times - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via COMTEX) -- The economic backlash includes a Cincinnati restaurateur who banned French wines and cheeses from his menu, a Chicago grocery-store chain that refuses to sell Evian water and Dijon mustard, and members of Congress who have renamed french fries "freedom fries." "We feel that the French aren't supporting our government, so why give them money for their country and their products?" asked Rory Hancock, manager of the Garden Fresh Market in the Chicago suburb of Wheeling....

BOYCOTTING FRANCE? Here is a simple list of products not to buy: Air France Air Liquide Airbus Alcatel - Based in Paris France Allegra (Allergy Medication) - Produced by Aventis Pharmaceuticals based in Strasbourg, France Aqualung (Including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest) AXA Advisors Bacou-Dalloz-Makes Industrial protective devices Bank of the West - Owned by BNP Paribas Beneteau (boats) BF Goodrich - Owned by Michelin BIC (Razors, Pens & Lighters) - Started in 1945 by Marcel Bich. Originally based just outside of Paris. Began trading on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1972. 40.5% Publicly traded. Bich family still owns...

<p>Michelin North America said Monday it is feeling the effects of mounting tensions between the United States and France as a U.S.-led war with Iraq seems inevitable. The Greenville-based company, the U.S. subsidiary of the French tire manufacturer, said it is hearing from increasing numbers of concerned consumers by phone and e-mail.</p>

Fears include consumer goods boycotts PARIS France seems bound to suffer a wave of economic and political losses at American hands, U.S. and French officials said Friday. . The U.S. backlash against France is likely to range widely, they said, from moves to reduce the importance of the Security Council and other international bodies that buoy French prestige to blows against trans-Atlantic industrial cooperation that infuses American technology into French companies. Most uncontrollable of all the responses, they said, might be consumer boycotts that hit French products and services. One official suggested that Washington may press for reforms at the...

Molly Marking has just about had it. She's gotten to the point where she's going to put a sign in her shop window, saying, "American-owned." "If our computer was working, I'd be printing one out now," said Marking, the owner of Mais Oui!, a French home-furnishings store in Bellevue. Over the last few weeks, she's heard more anti-French comments and lost business as some customers boycott French products to protest France's resistance to a war with Iraq. Her business was down 50 percent last week and she's projecting a 20 percent drop this week. "This is misplaced patriotism," she said....

France's stance galls some Americans France is coming under renewed attack from an American public fed up with Gallic independence. And, with the French poised to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution leading to war with Iraq, American pique has reached fever pitch. Consider the variety of distinctly un-diplomatic activities from across metro Atlanta: Once-recherche wine tastings, sponsored weekly by the Wine Report in Atlanta, turn jingoistic. A Newnan grocer empties his coolers of Evian bottled water. Somebody stole a French tricolore -- the red, white and blue flag -- from its pole outside the French consulate in Buckhead. A...

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Accor Lodging North America is a division of Paris-based Accor (www.accor.com), the world’s third-largest hospitality company and the European leader in travel, tourism and corporate services. Accor Lodging North America operates more than 1,200 upscale and economy properties owned by Accor including the upscale Sofitel and Novotel hotel locations in the U.S. and Canada, as well as economy leaders Red Roof Inns, Motel 6 and its new extended-stay product, Studio 6. Together, Red Roof Inns (www.redroof.com), Motel 6 (www.motel6.com), and Studio 6 (www.staystudio6.com), comprise nearly 10% of the entire U.S. budget lodging segment.

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