Innocent drinks

Another one for the boycott list. It’ll be better for me and the kids are they are just a bottle of sugar.

Yes, and when I checked creepy man's followers, I found I was already blocked by most of them (who obvs I'd never interacted with so assume blocker list).

Do we have a list of misogynistic companies?

Oh, Method not going in my trolley either. Wasn't aware of them being alleged misogyny cheerleaders either. Liked the grapefruit hand wash. Over with.

Won't be buying anymore of their goods in my family shop. A youngster in my family particularly liked their stuff. Thanks for showing yourself @innocent. Why do they seem to agree that the safety, privacy and dignity of women and girls is a bad thing? Or appear to support bullies or those who want to trample on women and girls? Misogyny is it, eh?

On the other hand, nice to discover @Flashmaggie.

Yes Errol surely the best outcome would be for the chief exec to come out a la Andrew Neill after the Spectator/ Co-Op thing, acknowledge the social media overreach, even challenge the idea a follow equals an endorsement. For a company that has always excelled at this kind of marketing and basked in the high profile it’s brought them, you’d think senior management would be horrified at this kind of bad press. Won’t hold my breath though.

For a start, how is her age relevant? Seems he's dismissing her on the basis of a 74 year old being unimportant. Which is pretty inhumane.

Pure ageism. The arrogance of someone younger not realising older people may have more life experience and time to think about things.

What I'm mildly curious about is that someone in that company did follow Margaret Nelson in the first place. I really do hope that somewhere behind the scenes that someone is explaining to their colleague why women's rights and free speech matter too.

The fact that they advertise their drinks as healthy is insane.
They are insanely unhealthy, no fibre to help breakdown the fruit juice and loaded with sugar. Awful stuff.

Personally I'm disinclined to give business to companies that bully women. Shame really as DD enjoys the odd innocent smoothie.
Although the fact that they are now owned by coca cola gives me further pause. Has anyone read Mark Thomas's book about their business practices? Might make you not want to buy any of their stuff ever again.

Are there any big companies that don't have a Twitter account?

Clever them.

They have jumped at the behest of one man who has posted misogynistic content and has 10 followers, opening the floodgates for other people to also make demands about who they associate with, and also endorsing the completely incorrect statement

Precisely this.

What on earth is the point of playing the wittering 'please stroke us' game? It's childish and petty, it's not something grown ups should be stooping to. And I've got no time or interest in any company stupid enough to wander into this kind of game playing and casual misogyny for political point scoring.

Thanks for the insight into your company Innocent, have a lovely life.

How thick do you have to be as a manufacturer to dabble about in this kind of political mud? Any position taken immediately alienates some of your custom, when your survival is based (hello, pandemic, recession? Brexit?) on making every single sale you can. And the ease with which they happily turned on women isn't something they can now brush out of their public reputation and history. Muppets.

Well unfortunately for them, the patriarchy means a lot of women do the food shop. Shan't be buying from them again!

This is the issue... They have jumped at the behest of one man who has posted misogynistic content and has 10 followers, opening the floodgates for other people to also make demands about who they associate with, and also endorsing the completely incorrect statement that Maggie is transphobic... but they seem to be selective about who they listen and respond to... and so far it remains the one man and not the hundreds of women... a truly dreadful move when women largely hold the family purse strings. They’ve got themselves into a right pickle.

When I looked last night they hadn’t replied to a single person asking about this but were still happily bollocking on with cutesy replies to anyone engaging with them about their products. Isn’t that what the kids call “doubling down” 😂?

If they can cause a storm like this then refuse to address the issue (whatever the supposed wrongthink), in effect dismissing the concerns of hundreds of people politely asking for clarification, they deserve the boycotts. Be interesting to see if they give this any further thought.

I am having a wonderful fantasy this morning that flash Maggie gets a huge delivery of complimentary Innocent smoothies and they prove to be the masters of PR after all......

Unfortunately I can't see coca-cola giving a shit.

Innocent had it's chance- they could have just ignored the little twerp- they didn't and they blew it.

I see this all the time when trying to moderate items it is sometimes impossible not to do the wrong thing due to pathways of reporting possible hate speech etc and unfortunately women's voices are squashed.

I won't go into details because it's too long but Innocent once ran an advert that was misleading and a few of us wrote to them to point out why. They pulled the ad. I think this is one brand we might be able to win over with people power and gentle persuasion. It might put them on the fence but worth contacting them with your thoughts.

I thought this was an interesting comment from the guy who originally tweeted Innocent...classic abuser tactic. Is there a name for this?

I can’t articulate very well what I mean, but it reminds me of when two siblings are fighting and one retaliates and the child that instigated it says ‘you’re overreacting, it’s not that bad’.

Method? What did they do?

methodproducts.co.uk/drag-cleans/

Considering the vast majority of their customer base and, let's face it, the people who are stuck with the shitwork of cleaning, are women, it seems ill-judged (at best) to choose men dressed up as hyper-sexualised parodies of women while doing a bit of performance housework to sell their products.

Innocent was originally started, I think, by a couple of entrepreneurs. I can remember them visiting our work restaurant in a central London solicitors firm about 25 years ago to market their product. I believe Innocent was sold to Coca Cola a few years ago.

I don't know if it is still the case but, although the drinks were marketed as being healthy, they contained large amount of sugar.