Dalai Lama to visit Finland in September
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- Dalai Lama to visit Finland in September
- European Nations Fight ver What Vodka Is
- Bond reunites with Smirnoff
Dalai Lama to visit Finland in September
phayul.com – Jul 24, 2006
The Dalai Lama 71 had earlier been scheduled to visit Finland in early July and to give a lecture at the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki but his physicians diagnosed overstrain and counselled total rest. Tuula Saarikoski of the cultural society said the Finlandia Hall lecture would go ahead in September. During his previous visit to Finland a decade ago the Dalai Lama met Pekka Haavisto the then Finnish environment minister. The Chinese embassy in Helsinki declared that it equated such a meeting with interference in China’s internal matters. This story has been read 2321 times.
European Nations Fight ver What Vodka Is
Washington Post – Jul 25, 2006
They say that could cause turmoil for the global drinks industry. “These member states only began to use the name vodka for their products in any significant volumes in the 1970s and they have no prior claim to determine the definition of the word internationally” said Chris Scott-Wilson a lobbyist for the Vodka Alliance of Europe which is campaigning to keep the wider definition. He pointed to British-produced vodkas like Smirnoff which started production in England in 1952 long before the birth of Swedish rival Absolut or Finland’s Finlandia. CNTINUED 1 document.
Bond reunites with Smirnoff
USA Today – Jul 24, 2006
This is the first Bond movie marketed and distributed by Sony Pictures one of the new owners of MGM along with a consortium of private equity firms. Under MGM and Eon Marketing which owns the James Bond rights the last Bond movie —Die Another Day — had about 20 partners who anted up a total of $100 million in marketing support. ne of them was Brown-Forman’s Finlandia vodka which spirited away rights to be 007’s vodka when Diageo-owned Smirnoff got sidetracked in a corporate reorganization. Just eight companies will be part of Sony’s global marketing for the latest film which tells the story of a young Bond just starting out. “We have fewer marketers by choice” says Mary Goss Robino senior vice president global marketing partnerships. “We work hand-in-hand with them to make sure everything fits with the brand and the character James Bond. Though Casino Royale is movie No.
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