Zaman, Turkey
Oct 20 2006

L’Oreal next Target of Turkish Boycott
By Cihan News Agency
Friday, October 20, 2006
zaman.com

Having called for a boycott against French oil company Total last week,
the Turkish Consumers Union has declared that next target is L’Oreal,
the world’s largest cosmetics group, in protest at the adoption of
the Armenian "genocide" bill in the French parliament.

Bulent Deniz, chairman of the Turkish Consumers Union, announced
on Thursday that they would put all the products of French cosmetic
giant L’Oreal on the boycott list next week.

L’Oreal products, including Biotherm, Cacharel, Garnier, Giorgio
Armani, Inneov, Kerastase, Lancôme, Matrix, Maybelline, Ralph Lauren,
and Vichy will be on the boycott list, Deniz said.

Turkey’s main consumer group last week decided to publicize one French
company or brand every week and encourage Turks to boycott it.

L’Oreal has been in the Turkish market since 1989 and has increased
its sales throughout the country 45 percent in the last five years.

Last a boycott began for Total, a French gas station, with a reported
30 percent drop in sales.

Apart from French oil group Total, which has 500 gas stations across
Turkey, other French companies such as Carrefour, Renault, Axa and
Lafarge could also be facing consumer boycotts in the coming weeks.

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