[extropy-chat] ECON: US products still globally dominant

[Mike Lorrey]

A new Harvard Business School study states that backlash against
American products in the wake of US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan
just hasn't materialized to any significant degree. While a rump group
of 12% of global consumers refuse to buy products of US corporations
because of US foreign policy and globalization, 88% say they continue
to buy US products.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1106&ncid=1106&e=2&u=/ft/20040121/bs_ft/1073281203197

Oddly enough, despite the complaints of elitists like France, US made
goods are seen as quality products around the world:

"He said global brands including Nike were favoured by consumers in
developing countries because they represented a guarantee of quality in
markets where basic standards were not always guaranteed. Coca-Cola,
for example, was seen as being a brand that used clean water in
preparing its soft drinks." 

Take THAT, Pierre....

Even in the Muslim world, Coke continues to dominate, and "Mecca Cola"
just doesn't get that many muslim consumers bowing down to it very
frequently.



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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
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