http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=77200&d=2&m=2&y=2006
Thursday, 2, February, 2006 (03, Muharram, 1427) Winner in Danish Boycott: Newspapers Hasan Hatrash, Arab News JEDDAH, 2 February 2006 - Saudi newspapers seem to be the only winners in controversy over blasphemous cartoons first published in Denmark in September and since reprinted in other dailies. Local newspapers have been receiving a windfall of advertisements in recent days taken out by local advertisement agencies clarifying their clients' support of the boycott, or denying their relationship to the Nordic country. Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company (KDDC), which has a strong presence in the Saudi market, asked people yesterday in a local paper to "Relax" in an advert taken out in Al-Riyadh newspaper. The Kuwaiti company claims in the advert that they are 100 percent Kuwaiti, that it packages many of its products in Saudi Arabia and imports the mangoes for their juice from India. The massive advertisement campaigns were held after the boycott began last month as a reaction toward the blasphemous cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten. It has become common during the last couple of weeks to see big advertisements in every paper with flashy fonts essentially saying: "We are not a Danish product." Arab News carried an advertisement yesterday of Anchor milk saying simply: "Pure goodness only from New Zealand." The word "New Zealand" is in bold. Earlier this week, Saudi Arabian Dairy and Foodstuff Co. (SADAFCO) published a clarification letter in Saudi newspapers about the termination of their Danish co-founders since 1987. On the same day that the financially bankrupt French daily owned by a French-Egyptian businessman, France Soir, re-published the cartoons, the Saudi operations of the French-owned international hypermarket chain Carrefour stated that the company has stopped importing Danish products and has removed the existing ones from its shelves. The advert declared that any customers finding any Danish product in their chain of supermarkets should report it to the management for removal. It is unknown if Carrefour will now remove French and German products now that newspapers in those countries have published the cartoons. Al-Othaim chain of supermarkets, also published a full page advert in a local newspaper about their latest products. In the lower part of the page there was a sign saying "No for Danish products." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/