Nickname: rajaryan

Review: If Business week bashes Coke for feeding Indians with poison, it very well knows that it might loose advertising revenues. Like of Business week are not connected/dependant with odinary Indian consumers but with the rich and powerful MNC corporations and leading executives and managers who owkr in these corporations.

Date reviewed: Jul 13, 2009 7:31 AM

Nickname: David12

Review: To all the comments below this one bashing BW for their alleged "pro-coke-bias" I say this: I trust BW far more than I do some fundamentalist "environment group" in India. (Appearantly any group of idiots with a camera and a computer can make the other idiots in the world believe whatever they want them to believe.) I have seen nothing that proves to me that Coke or Pepsi are poisonous. If anything the video circling the internet proves that Coke is a liquid that makes insects wings stick together so they fall to the ground. How do we know the substance used in the video wasn't an actual pesticide in place of Coke or Pepsi? How do we know the pesticides weren't added to the coke or pepsi after it was bottled? Honestly some people are just too gullible for words.

Date reviewed: Jun 20, 2009 11:30 PM

Nickname: Mike112244

Review: The idea that such a conservative magazine like BW is being attacked for having a liberal bias is joke. I think this article tried to stand by the companies but realized it could not do so, because Coke/Pepsi are violating international laws and Environmental laws local to India. You people are insane, THEY ARE SELLING A PRODUCT THEY KNOW HAS PESTICIDES!!!! Lets pretend we live in a land called happy valley where Coke did not realize its ill-deed, well then why are they still doing it?

Date reviewed: Nov 19, 2007 12:22 PM

Nickname: Priyesh

Review: I think this is a very biased article and is not very well-researched. I expected Businessweek to do a better job.

Date reviewed: Oct 15, 2006 7:02 AM

Nickname: ustate

Review: Bashing of foreign corporations is not new in India. The Indian government and some Indians with socialist-communist inclinations have been bashing the likes of Coca-Cola since their Independence Day, August 15, 1947. If they cannot compete why not bash them using government propoganda?

Date reviewed: Sep 7, 2006 2:27 PM

Nickname: Mridula

Review: The article has already got a lot of bashing and it deserved every bit of it.

Date reviewed: Sep 5, 2006 5:35 AM

Nickname: Logic100

Review: There's an unwriiten rule in journalism: if you have an agenda, voice it subtly, bung it in with some reasoning. This pro-cola story does the opposite and makes the whole case a blatant effort. Please, I expect BusinessWeek to present issues with some perspective.

Date reviewed: Sep 4, 2006 7:12 AM

Nickname: rajeev bajpai

Review: I am not sure with what perspective the article is written, as barring CSE the lab which tested the cold drinks. No other valid source is cited barring Mr Poddar who toes the oft repeated line - it could harm investments in India. Coke and Pepsi also cite reports from labs outside India that they are safe while they start their high pitch advertising and denial statements. They have not utilized the services of any lab in India to prove their point, and they are guilty on this count alone. Are we saying that there are no labs in India where the testing can be done and the claim of either the sunita narayan or Coke/Pepsi verified? These two companies in that sense are same as the so called politicians as they play the delay game. The New Delhi or India house is in order but the earlier Coke and Pepsi puts their house in order and ensure hard compliance citing and involving Indian test agencies doubts will prevail.

Date reviewed: Sep 2, 2006 5:38 PM

Nickname: VT

Review: One thing that had never been clear to me from the outset is - Has the pesticide content of bottled water been tested? Do they have the same level of pesticide content as Pepsi/Coke or less. If bottled water is lower in content, then Pepsi and Coke should be asked to emulate them. If it is indeed the case that bottled water has "higher" level of pesticide than the norms -then consumers are also entitled to good quality drinking water and the govt needs to pursue them too.

Date reviewed: Sep 1, 2006 9:31 AM

Nickname: Ram Sridhar

Review: Diane rised a valid question as to why no action has been taken against Indian soft drink manufacturers. Unfortunately she does not know that almost all the small, medium and big manufacturers were gobbled up by Coke or Pepsi. The entire soft drinks market in India is dominated by these two. There is no xenophobia present here. We have all kinds of MNCs like Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Philips, Motorola, Sony etc., The issue is both these giants are misusing ground water. In India we know our politicians and we don't bother with the health minister's clean chit. It is time Coke & Pepsi started doing something immediately or they will be driven out of India. Whether the government is going to ban them or not, we will boycott them. Instead of paying millions to film actors/sports persons to endorse the colas, these two companies can do something good for the country like what Microsoft & Google are doing.

Date reviewed: Aug 31, 2006 7:58 AM