Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
Do you have a link?
I don't remember any "Orlen"....*scratches head*
Do you have a link?
I don't remember any "Orlen"....*scratches head*
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
Business in Germany! With the usual barbs against the "mean, anti-polish Germans", huh?
You sure thrive on it...
Business in Germany! With the usual barbs against the "mean, anti-polish Germans", huh?
You sure thrive on it...
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
Is that anti-german reporting still the norm of the day? Interesting...
Is that anti-german reporting still the norm of the day? Interesting...
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
I googled the Smyk case!
smyk.com/en/about/spiele-max
Also here it seems more to be a case of keeping a well known brand instead of forcing
an unknown brand name on the costumers!
Why are you people seeing always german anti-polishness behind every corner???
As I showed, BP aquired Aral and kept an in Germany well known brand name (since 1924), the same with Spiele-Max instead of changing it to unknown "Smyk".
Why throwing away good value and a well known brand? It would had cost customers...A well established brand is pure money!
I googled the Smyk case!
smyk.com/en/about/spiele-max
Also here it seems more to be a case of keeping a well known brand instead of forcing
an unknown brand name on the costumers!
In 2008 the SMYK Group acquired the leading German chain of 41 stores with children's products, Spiele Max. In this way the SMYK Group strengthened its position and became a key player on the German market Spiele Max has been present on the German market for over 25 years and has a very strong position on the market.
The brand has high recognition, and Spiele Max is a leader in a large number of brands and products such as toys, prams, furniture and other equipment for children.
The brand has high recognition, and Spiele Max is a leader in a large number of brands and products such as toys, prams, furniture and other equipment for children.
Why are you people seeing always german anti-polishness behind every corner???
But fuel? How many Germans can even name a Polish brand?
As I showed, BP aquired Aral and kept an in Germany well known brand name (since 1924), the same with Spiele-Max instead of changing it to unknown "Smyk".
Why throwing away good value and a well known brand? It would had cost customers...A well established brand is pure money!
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
Sounds german though... ;)
The same with Wedel. Wedel is not anymore Polish... but Japanese! ;D
Sounds german though... ;)
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
They don't cost much...cheap money hence not much thoughts.
Expensive goods on the other hand are thought about much more before buying, names and images are most important!
Chinese products are purchased without a second thought.
They don't cost much...cheap money hence not much thoughts.
Expensive goods on the other hand are thought about much more before buying, names and images are most important!
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
No!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_AG
They just kept a well introduced brand name...
Because they don't trust BP? I doubt.
No!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_AG
Aral is a brand of automobile fuels and gas stations, present in Germany and Luxembourg, but formerly used in most countries of Western and Central Europe.
The company behind the brand name, Aral AG (previously Veba Öl AG), is owned by BP, but was established in 1898 as Westdeutsche Benzol-Verkaufs-Vereinigung GmbH.
The Aral brand was introduced in 1924 and is a portmanteau of the German words "Aromaten" and "Aliphaten", alluding to the aromatic and aliphatic components found in gasoline, respectively.
The company behind the brand name, Aral AG (previously Veba Öl AG), is owned by BP, but was established in 1898 as Westdeutsche Benzol-Verkaufs-Vereinigung GmbH.
The Aral brand was introduced in 1924 and is a portmanteau of the German words "Aromaten" and "Aliphaten", alluding to the aromatic and aliphatic components found in gasoline, respectively.
They just kept a well introduced brand name...
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
Yes, that is true! :)
Make it a nature protection area...so "contamination" can be limited and snackbars only at a few
places.
Germany is building up a huge nature protection area in the whole north eastern area...step by step more and more territories are included. That's the right way I think to avoid the errors of the earlier years.
You have to admit, it's a hell of a mission statement though and that's what you asked about.
Yes, that is true! :)
The dilemma is this: attract too many tourists and they will trample the naturalness away. And tacky commercial interests will soon contaminate the landscape with their booths, stalls, snackbars and souvenir shops.
Make it a nature protection area...so "contamination" can be limited and snackbars only at a few
places.
Germany is building up a huge nature protection area in the whole north eastern area...step by step more and more territories are included. That's the right way I think to avoid the errors of the earlier years.
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
I fear that won't be enough for an INTERNATIONAL nation branding! ;)
tall enough to be seen from German border on a clear day and in stone.
I fear that won't be enough for an INTERNATIONAL nation branding! ;)
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
National football teams and country brands
nation-branding.info/2010/06/23/national-football-teams-and-country-brands
National football teams and country brands
nation-branding.info/2010/06/23/national-football-teams-and-country-brands
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]
A link?
Do you mean that one?
nation-branding.info/2010/10/13/nation-brands-index-2010
That could be interesting:
nation-branding.info/2010/11/03/mission-statements-of-countries
What should Polands "mission statement" be?
I think that comes first before you could think about a good placement of your brand.
A link?
Do you mean that one?
nation-branding.info/2010/10/13/nation-brands-index-2010
That could be interesting:
nation-branding.info/2010/11/03/mission-statements-of-countries
What should Polands "mission statement" be?
I think that comes first before you could think about a good placement of your brand.
Bratwurst Boy
27 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]
And you really believe that, don't you! Ha!
When the world talks about giants of civilization they don't talk much about Poland but about Germans....ever wondered why?
The map of Ptolemy showed fully developed towns in what you now call Poland already 2000 years back and every town has an environment of villages and farms as it can't exist alone.
Already flourishing before the first Pole set it's dirty paw into these lands!
I can understand you if you want to try to pull off your superior stuff with Ukrainians and Lithuanians or whomever else eastwards of you but you are speaking now about the mighty german people here, the center of the white, western civilization...you can't hold a candle on us regarding achievements!
I know Poles like their realm of fantasy where they rule but please leave us out of it..
Carefull with that BB, the problem with that story is that Germans never went far above villages in the area, then Poles show up and *BAM* civilisation.
And you really believe that, don't you! Ha!
When the world talks about giants of civilization they don't talk much about Poland but about Germans....ever wondered why?
The map of Ptolemy showed fully developed towns in what you now call Poland already 2000 years back and every town has an environment of villages and farms as it can't exist alone.
Already flourishing before the first Pole set it's dirty paw into these lands!
I can understand you if you want to try to pull off your superior stuff with Ukrainians and Lithuanians or whomever else eastwards of you but you are speaking now about the mighty german people here, the center of the white, western civilization...you can't hold a candle on us regarding achievements!
I know Poles like their realm of fantasy where they rule but please leave us out of it..
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]
Such a history only serves the settlers...won't want to be seen as conquerors and invaders, won't we!
Maps show german "TOWNS" deep inside of what is now Poland...2000 years old...so much for empty!
many scholars believe Slavs encroached west on what were mostly emptied lands
Such a history only serves the settlers...won't want to be seen as conquerors and invaders, won't we!
Maps show german "TOWNS" deep inside of what is now Poland...2000 years old...so much for empty!
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
News / New Polish Light Tank - Anders [74]
Are Germans the only ones giving their armor animal names???
Are Germans the only ones giving their armor animal names???
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
News / New Polish Light Tank - Anders [74]
You mean the Leopard is Anders???
...okay...bad joke... :):):)
Named after a polish-german general, huh? Interesting! :)
The Leopard and the Anders aren't meant for the same mission.
You mean the Leopard is Anders???
...okay...bad joke... :):):)
Named after a polish-german general, huh? Interesting! :)
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
News / New Polish Light Tank - Anders [74]
Why don't you buy more Leopards??? They are the best and you make your neighbour happy...
:)
*goes hugging a Leopard*
Why don't you buy more Leopards??? They are the best and you make your neighbour happy...
:)
*goes hugging a Leopard*
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
News / Looted Polish paintings found and return to Poland [14]
Lots of it is still rotting in Siberia! The Russians are still all Soviets in this regard. Recently there had been a joint exhibition of german art in St. Petersburg.
Only after much fight over years and only heavily guarded. They don't even think about it giving something back...They don't really like hearing it "Beutekunst"! ;)
But that's how we know that there are still endless counts of art are still somewhere hidden in trains in Siberia.
Yeah...must be the lack of own medals...german art, german medals...what would you do without the Germans!
I bet the polish art you so bemoan was only a gathering of foreign (german?) art itself...
I seriously can't even imagine how much is hidden in Russia today. And i guess i will never find it out either.
Lots of it is still rotting in Siberia! The Russians are still all Soviets in this regard. Recently there had been a joint exhibition of german art in St. Petersburg.
Only after much fight over years and only heavily guarded. They don't even think about it giving something back...They don't really like hearing it "Beutekunst"! ;)
But that's how we know that there are still endless counts of art are still somewhere hidden in trains in Siberia.
As a child I used to play with German medals your heroes lost while escaping Poland !
Ohne Flax !
Ohne Flax !
Yeah...must be the lack of own medals...german art, german medals...what would you do without the Germans!
I bet the polish art you so bemoan was only a gathering of foreign (german?) art itself...
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
News / Looted Polish paintings found and return to Poland [14]
Well, only his iron cross could be found, sorry...he got it probably as he rolled his tanks over polish cavalry!
Well, only his iron cross could be found, sorry...he got it probably as he rolled his tanks over polish cavalry!
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
News / Looted Polish paintings found and return to Poland [14]
Poland still keeps looted german art...and lots of it!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinka_(art_collection)
We should make an official exchange...Thank you very much!
Poland still keeps looted german art...and lots of it!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinka_(art_collection)
The Berlinka is known to contain over 300,000 manuscripts by individuals such as Martin Luther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Friedrich Schiller. It also contains linguistic studies by the Grimm Brothers[4]
We should make an official exchange...Thank you very much!
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]
Well, as just seen, you prove it all the time here but maybe we can add stupidity to being racist?
I'm blond, blue eyed like Adolf's Germanic Uebermensch.
I'm Slavic subhuman only.
Well, as just seen, you prove it all the time here but maybe we can add stupidity to being racist?
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]
No...they don't! You are an racist arsehole...sorry!
Oh boy !
Germans do LOVE me!
Germans do LOVE me!
No...they don't! You are an racist arsehole...sorry!
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]
Gastarbeiter! ROFL :)
Look at your heritage Borrka...and how much of that is german (Buildings, art, towns, technology, science etc.)
Your Kings needed the Germans to build up your country! And now you need us again to build you up...some things never change...funny isn't it!
Think about that next time you call Germans in WHAT IS NOW Poland "settlers" or "colonists".
PS: You know Borrka, I always wondered about your fanatic stand on "the Germans hate the Poles by default. Always had, always will". I tried to discuss with you seriously but I now know that is futile...it might even be right that Germans hate YOU, but that is your fault. You are an unsympathetic being with one can no build understanding or even friendship. So yes, in your case you might even be right, GERMANS DON'T LIKE YOU!!!
But you are not Poland, nor (gladly) the majority of the fine polish people...with those we have no problems with and can build a good future...you on the other hand I want to kick in the nuts all the time, get used to it, to my and our dislike! You have only yourself to blame....
Yes I do. Got no problems with German Gastarbeiter hired by Polish kings.
Gastarbeiter! ROFL :)
Look at your heritage Borrka...and how much of that is german (Buildings, art, towns, technology, science etc.)
Your Kings needed the Germans to build up your country! And now you need us again to build you up...some things never change...funny isn't it!
Think about that next time you call Germans in WHAT IS NOW Poland "settlers" or "colonists".
PS: You know Borrka, I always wondered about your fanatic stand on "the Germans hate the Poles by default. Always had, always will". I tried to discuss with you seriously but I now know that is futile...it might even be right that Germans hate YOU, but that is your fault. You are an unsympathetic being with one can no build understanding or even friendship. So yes, in your case you might even be right, GERMANS DON'T LIKE YOU!!!
But you are not Poland, nor (gladly) the majority of the fine polish people...with those we have no problems with and can build a good future...you on the other hand I want to kick in the nuts all the time, get used to it, to my and our dislike! You have only yourself to blame....
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]
Göring was a hero flyer in the first world war (Pour Le Merite), he was the commander of the red Baron himself...
Interesting character...he played the lawyers at Nuremburg for fools, being highly intelligent (IQ 138) he run rings around them.
But all that early success and praise must have muddled his brain somewhat....
Were they? I don't know of Balt recordings before the Germanics...
Simon Schama's "Landscape and Memory" speaks of HG's love of hunting and gives a hilarious description of HG in blouson shirt and rubber flying trousers showing the world's press some bison (who refused to mate for the camera).
Göring was a hero flyer in the first world war (Pour Le Merite), he was the commander of the red Baron himself...
Interesting character...he played the lawyers at Nuremburg for fools, being highly intelligent (IQ 138) he run rings around them.
But all that early success and praise must have muddled his brain somewhat....
And weren't they Balt lands before either of you got there?
Were they? I don't know of Balt recordings before the Germanics...
Bratwurst Boy
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]
And before that it used to be german lands before Poles wandered westwards and settled there...
We had been there before you, interesting how you keep to forgetting that!
Germans had every right to re-settle there again as it will happen in the future again! ;)
Good question Borrka...ask that yourself!
You keep calling Germans who lived in northern Poland or Silesia etc. for 500 and 1000 years at "settlers" and "colonists"....
Just think about the polish pearl "Krakow", after the mongol hordes destroyed the town it was rebuild and settled by Germans...who in the course of the millennia got polonized.
Just one example of the german heritage of much of Poland!
Do you call Krakow Heimat Borrka?
Exactly the way Germans colonized Pommerania !
Perhaps you don't know it but what you call "Northern parts of Poland heavily populated by Germans" used to be Slavic and part Polish lands before German annexation.
Perhaps you don't know it but what you call "Northern parts of Poland heavily populated by Germans" used to be Slavic and part Polish lands before German annexation.
And before that it used to be german lands before Poles wandered westwards and settled there...
We had been there before you, interesting how you keep to forgetting that!
Germans had every right to re-settle there again as it will happen in the future again! ;)
What is your time line to accept sombody's right to his "Heimat" ?
Good question Borrka...ask that yourself!
You keep calling Germans who lived in northern Poland or Silesia etc. for 500 and 1000 years at "settlers" and "colonists"....
Just think about the polish pearl "Krakow", after the mongol hordes destroyed the town it was rebuild and settled by Germans...who in the course of the millennia got polonized.
Just one example of the german heritage of much of Poland!
Do you call Krakow Heimat Borrka?
Bratwurst Boy
25 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]
The bankers....the new Jews!
;)
The bankers....the new Jews!
;)
Bratwurst Boy
25 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]
Dictatorship isn't compelling to people, nothing they yearn for, strive for, dream of.
You don't see masses immigrating into China!
The chinese "miracle" will get busted like the credit crunch and housing bubbles...soon chinese workers won't bow to the slaving anymore...there will be rising wages, a growing middle class who will influence the current regime...
They will come to adhere the same laws and duties as we have to do too...then we will see how they can cope without any unfair advantage as it is now! ;)
It's all a matter of time!
PS: Dictatorships are all about projecting an image, to their own people and to the foreigners....they are not really working well, they never do, not by a long shot! Believe me...I speak from experience!
What are the main ingredients? Dictatorship seems to be working well, when managed by competent people, which China is. They're waging an economic war and look to be winning.
Dictatorship isn't compelling to people, nothing they yearn for, strive for, dream of.
You don't see masses immigrating into China!
The chinese "miracle" will get busted like the credit crunch and housing bubbles...soon chinese workers won't bow to the slaving anymore...there will be rising wages, a growing middle class who will influence the current regime...
They will come to adhere the same laws and duties as we have to do too...then we will see how they can cope without any unfair advantage as it is now! ;)
It's all a matter of time!
PS: Dictatorships are all about projecting an image, to their own people and to the foreigners....they are not really working well, they never do, not by a long shot! Believe me...I speak from experience!
Bratwurst Boy
25 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]
And still... ;)
That's what I meant! If I had believed every doom-sayer...
I believe in the US, they will come out of it. There won't be another world leader anytime soon, the possible candidates are all lacking the main ingrediences!
And still... ;)
That's what I meant! If I had believed every doom-sayer...
I believe in the US, they will come out of it. There won't be another world leader anytime soon, the possible candidates are all lacking the main ingrediences!
Bratwurst Boy
25 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]
I will change my opinion once the Dollar is not the world currency anymore...but I need to see that to believe it!
Keep in mind the US has already threatened the Chinese with devaluation... if that happens, do you think the ECB and BoE will play follow the leader?
I will change my opinion once the Dollar is not the world currency anymore...but I need to see that to believe it!
Bratwurst Boy
25 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]
Well...if you call the Dollar and the Pound "weak" currencies! ;)
But the Euro is stronger than the Dollar and near parity with the Pound.
A too strong Euro is bad news for the german economy...and against the background
of all the "doom! gloom!" screamers in the wake of Greece, Ireland and future bailouts the Euro holds itself very well! ;)
No panic, no rushed sells, nothing...
I've read experts who said parity with both (Dollar, Pound) is actually more realistic than the heights the Euro had reached some months back. That was clear overvaluation and...I repeat, bad for the economies!
Well...if you call the Dollar and the Pound "weak" currencies! ;)
But the Euro is stronger than the Dollar and near parity with the Pound.
A too strong Euro is bad news for the german economy...and against the background
of all the "doom! gloom!" screamers in the wake of Greece, Ireland and future bailouts the Euro holds itself very well! ;)
No panic, no rushed sells, nothing...
I've read experts who said parity with both (Dollar, Pound) is actually more realistic than the heights the Euro had reached some months back. That was clear overvaluation and...I repeat, bad for the economies!