The Brisbane-based company has been selling products marked "proudly Australian owned" more than a year after it was bought by US food giant Heinz.
Heinz spokeswoman Jessica Ramsden has laid the blame on the sheer size of the company's output. Further saying, "We had over 400 products to relabel since acquiring Golden Circle late in 2008 and it's just simply taken much longer than we anticipated to complete this process."
I am sure that the Australian executives at Golden Circle knew fully well that their products were labeled 'Australian Owned' and therefore participated in deceptive conduct while selling their product as Australian owned while Golden Circle was owned by parent company Heinz.
So I do not accept the explanation given by the Heinz representative.
Read more at abc.net.au news
UPDATE 25TH April 2010
Pineapple windfall for Australia's homeless
MORE than 800,000 cans of pineapple weighing 1.1 million kilos, filling 50 semitrailers and valued at $3 million are bound for Australia's homeless community thanks to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Read more at news.com.au
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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