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BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 19:04 Tue 29 Apr 2014
by mpij
The Portman Group have found BrewDog guilty of breach of alcohol marketing code. I like their reply.
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/04/29/ ... les-breach
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 19:39 Tue 29 Apr 2014
by jdaw1
My one experience of the Portman Group didn’t impress me. It started with:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=42175#p42175]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:By email The Portman Group wrote:Wednesday 20 April 2011
Summer consultation planned for alcohol Code
Code of Practice on responsible alcohol marketing to undergo public review
The Portman Group is undertaking a full public consultation on its
Code of Practice on the Naming Packaging and Promotion of Alcoholic Drinks which regulates pre-packaged alcohol marketing in the UK.
We promised to carry out this review as part of the Responsibility Deal on Public Health announced by Health Secretary, Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP in March this year. A formal consultation document will be published in the Summer.
The Portman Group Code has been existence since 1996 and, in that time, over 80 products have been found in breach of the rules. A copy of the
current Code and
annual complaint reports can be read on our website.
If you would like to register your interest in the consultation, or have views about what it should include, please email us via info
[edited by jdaw1 to say at the obvious domain] or call us 020 7290 1460.
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 21:02 Tue 29 Apr 2014
by djewesbury
How did it end? I agree with mpij, BrewDog's response is really quite excellent.
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 02:27 Wed 30 Apr 2014
by CaliforniaBrad
I wish more small businesses were this honest!
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Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 07:35 Wed 30 Apr 2014
by jdaw1
CaliforniaBrad wrote:I wish more small businesses were this honest!
It is a matter of being brave rather than honest. Most are silent.
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 08:03 Wed 30 Apr 2014
by djewesbury
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 11:40 Wed 30 Apr 2014
by idj123
Absoultely brilliant-talk about cocking a snook!
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 14:13 Fri 02 May 2014
by Andy Velebil
idj123 wrote:....-talk about cocking a snook!
I'm generally pretty good at understanding the slang on your side of the Pond. But can someone translate what this means please.
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 14:23 Fri 02 May 2014
by djewesbury
To cock a snook is to show one's disdain and disregard for something or someone, in whatever way. It's an archaic expression, the exact meaning of which is lost. Some believe it to have a connection with the gesture known as 'thumbing your nose'. You get the picture!
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 14:24 Fri 02 May 2014
by djewesbury
Actually the proprietress of a venue we have used for tastings in Belfast referred to me yesterday as "Mr Port Man". This both pleased and, in the context of this discussion, upset me.
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 14:41 Fri 02 May 2014
by Andy Velebil
djewesbury wrote:To cock a snook is to show one's disdain and disregard for something or someone, in whatever way. It's an archaic expression, the exact meaning of which is lost. Some believe it to have a connection with the gesture known as 'thumbing your nose'. You get the picture!
got it now, thanks
Re: BrewDog apology to Portman Group
Posted: 09:00 Sat 03 May 2014
by idj123
Daniel, I think you're safe-if she had dropped the 'Mr' then she may have been 'cocking a snook'!
Also reminds of an old boss of mine who could never remember the name of anyone and was constantly telling his secretary to send the letter to 'snooks'!