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| Thread ID: 129274 | 2013-02-14 05:58:00 | Marmite | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1328048 | 2013-02-14 05:58:00 | Where do Sanitarium get off objecting the import of Genuine Marmite, in a genuine jar? Marmite has been around since I was a kid (75 years); long before Sanitarium existed in New Zealand. Sounds like a monopoly to me. Their Marmite isn't even genuine, and to make matters worse it is packed in a plastic jar. They probably don't even know where the name came from, the little yellow jug with a spoon in it. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1328049 | 2013-02-14 06:05:00 | "The product's popularity prompted the Sanitarium Health Food Company to obtain sole rights to distribute the product in New Zealand and Australia in 1908. They later began manufacturing Marmite under licence in Christchurch (1919), albeit using a modified version of the original recipe, most notable for its inclusion of sugar and caramel." en.wikipedia.org So it would appear they are within their miserable rights to prevent the sale of British Marmite here. Edit: However since they do not manufacture to the British recipe then they really shouldn't be able to call it Marmite, I call that false pretences :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1328050 | 2013-02-14 06:15:00 | [QUOTE=Terry Porritt;1146692 So it would appear they are within their rights to prevent the sale of the miserable British Marmite here. QUOTE] Corrected for you :) |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1328051 | 2013-02-14 06:46:00 | My biggest grudge against Sanitarium is that as a branch of the seventh day adventist church the bastards don't pay tax, bludging pricks. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1328052 | 2013-02-14 07:17:00 | My biggest grudge against Sanitarium is that as a branch of the seventh day adventist church the bastards don't pay tax, bludging pricks. Is that for real??? Naaah, can't be. Not even in the free republic of banana. |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 1328053 | 2013-02-14 08:01:00 | Is that for real??? Naaah, can't be. Not even in the free republic of banana. Straight up.."The breakfast food giant doesn't pay company tax because of its owner's charitable status." www.nzherald.co.nz |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1328054 | 2013-02-14 08:50:00 | Church? Yeah? Might explain whay they could not produce, import, or rebuild a factory months ago. Surley they could have quickly made a factory in Auckland last year. Lot of well known branded corporate companies quickly errecting new premises around the Botany/Dannemora area. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1328055 | 2013-02-14 09:16:00 | Marmite (either version) is not even good for shoe cleaning. It should be banned on the grounds that it may get into a waterway and kill wildlife. People who eat it naturally deserve everything they get. Vegemite, however, is the real thing and enables formerly puny 90 lb weaklings to kick sand in the face of giants. Better than old whats-his-name's body building course. (Sandow? Atlas?) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1328056 | 2013-02-14 09:35:00 | ...So it would appear they are within their miserable rights to prevent the sale of British Marmite here... I can't see how they can do this - the whole idea of "parallel importing" is to get around this uncompetitive behaviour. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1328057 | 2013-02-14 10:05:00 | no tax.... yep - coincidentally a mate was telling me about that last week - he's gone the way of "no sanitarium products in my house!" as he's real psst about the fact they don't pay one cent (business) tax except he was using slightly more descriptive terms venting his opinion on that! :) I had to look it up myself - I had doubts when he told me, but they even have it on their website, explaining all the terrifically great things they do with all that money instead. :rolleyes: www.sanitarium.co.nz |
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