Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.misc.coke Subject: Re: COKE Clothes Message-ID: <542@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 14:47:29 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.542 Posted: Fri Aug 9 14:47:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 23:04:11 EDT References: <937@security.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 20 Summary: >There was an ad this evening on MTV for Coca-Cola Clothes. Shown were >a whole line of different stuff, including sweat shirts with the Coca-Cola >logo and pants with a logo at the belt-line. According to an article in The Wall Street Journal (8/9/85, p. 19), Coca-Cola Clothes are made by Murjani in Hong Kong and Macao. This apparantly does not sit too well with textile executives in North Carolina, where imported clothing is blamed for the closing of 43 textile plants last year. When department stores started advertising Coca-Cola clothes as "All-American", it was the last straw - the execs retaliated by removing Coke machines from their factories! AWR PS: I've been thinking about having a bunch of MOXIE T-shirts (black and white logo on orange background) made up a) if I can get Moxie Industries' permission and b) if I can find about 20 others to split the cost. Anyone else out there want one? It's the surreal thing!