When the boycott of French products
started in 2003, Boycott Watch not only began monitoring and reporting on it,
but was the only site to confirm reports sent over the Internet to actually
determine what companies are or are not in fact French (Article Here). Some people did not read our reports
and accused us of being boycotters, probably because they were not expecting
anybody to actually hold boycotters accountable as we do, including the German
Magazine Der Spiegel, which we forced to correct their erroneous article about
us (Article Here).
Boycott Watch was sent an email from a reader in
Poughkeepsie, New York telling us that American Power Conversion (APC), a
company which makes batter backup systems for computers, should be added to our
French products boycott list.
We have long since
stopped updating that list, primarily because people stopped sending us lists
of boycotted companies to verify. As such, we consider that boycott to be over.
We do, however, have a new question in this matter: If the deal goes through
(read the announcement here),
will the company change its name to French Power Conversion Company (FPC)?
While their APC name is very well known, Boycott Watch asks the question
because otherwise the name may be misleading to American consumers.
In this case, we did not ask APC for specifics
because announcements of name changes would only be made when and if that
happens. Boycott Watch will monitor and report further in this matter. |
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