The city of Stockholm participates in the boycott against the giant company that owns brands such as Marabou, Daim and Oreo. The city of Helsinki and Finland’s big retail chains do not consider the boycott appropriate.
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, has participated in the boycott of the giant company Mondelez, because the company supports the Russian war fund with its taxes.
In addition to Marabou chocolate, brands owned by the American company Mondelez include Daim and Toblerone chocolates, Philadelphia processed cheese, O’boy cocoa, and Oreo, Belvita and TUC cookies.
The city of Stockholm announced this on Wednesday. With the boycott, the city wants to show solidarity with Ukraine.
– Stockholmers’ tax money should not be used for a company that has influence in Russia and participates in financing the war fund, the city’s mayor Karin Wanngård tells Swedish radio by.
Confectionery giant Mondelez has continued its operations in Russia despite the war of aggression in Ukraine. Mondelez paid over 60 million dollars in taxes to Russia last year.
The city of Helsinki has no similar plans to start a boycott, the communications director of the city of Helsinki tells Yelle Liisa Kivelä.
– We don’t have such boycotts against companies, Kivelä commented.
The boycott has continued in Sweden for more than a week, and the public debate is still raging in the media and on social media platforms.
The Swedish Minister of Economy has also taken a stand on the matter Elisabeth Svantessonaccording to which people must get to know more about the backgrounds of products.
In Sweden, the airline SAS, the Swedish state railway company SJ, the Swedish national football team and the Swedish Armed Forces, as well as the Tallink Group, have also joined the boycott.
The protest has also spread in Sweden’s largest grocery store chain, ICA. Some retailers have put up warning signs near Mondelez-owned brands.
– I do lose money, but this war must be stopped, said the ICA trader Matt Calla for SVT in Umeå.
Unlike in Sweden, Finland’s large grocery chains have not considered the boycott appropriate.
Last week, asked the S group, Kesko and Lidl, whether stores in Finland should also inform customers about products linked to Russia’s war of aggression, like the Swedes.
No store chain saw any reason for this.
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