Singha Selling Rice with Beer

Left: After introduction of the new good rice, what do you plan marketing?
Left Middle: The old formula that is widely used in the showbiz?
Right middle: What is the old formula?
Right: Selling rice altogether with beer.

[Singha Corporation, the largest beer seller of the country, has launched its new investment in the rice market. The newly introduced product is the 'Pun Dee' or good quality rice pack. The cartoon jokes that the marketing for the rice will involve selling the rice and beer together.]

source: Singha Selling Rice with Beer

World Pizza Council Revokes Pizza Company’s Use Of Word ‘Pizza’

I found that article over at Not the Nation pretty funny. To be honest, once in a while I order from Pizza Company....but it really has not much to do with a Pizza.

NAPLES, ITALY – The Pizza Company, Thailand’s largest pizza chain, may soon lose its right to use the word “pizza” if the World Pizza Council has its way.

The Naples-based Council, whose charter is to “protect the traditions and purity of Italy’s most famous and beloved culinary export”, filed suit in European Union court this week to demand that The Pizza Company “cease and desist using the word ‘pizza’ to describe its products.”

The Council also issued a press release outlining its position in detail, expressing regret that legal action was necessary, but defending the suit as a “crucial defense of the integrity of pizza,” citing numerous violations of pizza tradition that had been committed by The Pizza Company..

full post:

http://notthenation.com/2011/01/world-pizza-council-revokes-pizza-company%E2%80%99s-use-of-word-pizza/