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Article: Fiji's bottled water brand leaves a bad taste in the mouth Multi- million pound company accused of acquiescing to repressive regime
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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THE walls are all lime green and glass, the clientele all lip
gloss and tan, and the waiters' smiles a mixture of boredom and
frosty charm. And it's here in Edinburgh's most upmarket store,
Harvey Nichols - the home of ladies who lunch - where patrons can
quench their thirst after a hard day's shopping with a bottle of the
world's most hyped drink: Fiji Water, at justL 2 a pop.
Fiji Water is sold as the epitome of chic, but there's a darker
side to its ritzy image. The water racks up its carbon footprint by
being transported to Scotland from half way across the globe, and
its sexy uber-cool image is doing wonders for the country it hails
from. Fiji after all is a nation ruled by one of the ...