Carrefour faces Chinese online boycott bid
Latest update : 2009-02-27
Chinese netizens have launched a campaign to boycott the French retail giant, Carrefour, via the Internet and text messages following the Olympic torch's embarrassing passage through Paris. (Report: R. Tompsett)
A campaign to boycott French firms in
Protests against the Olympic torch when it passed through
Several French newspapers carried anxious headlines on Tuesday, fearing that French economic interests in
Carrefour potentially has the most to lose: The supermarket giant has more than 100 hypermarkets in
L’Oréal, meanwhile, has come under fire because its subsidiary, the Body Shop, promoted a tour of
All potentially worrying stuff for French firms, but the true impact of such a boycott, if in fact it occurs, should not be overstated. However many thousands of angry comments may have been posted on Chinese blogs and message boards in the last few weeks, it’s still not a reliable gauge of public feeling in a nation of more than 1.3 billion people.
Moreover, as our
Date created : 2008-04-15