CHOICE Voice

The spotlight is again on bad products, with CHOICE holding its 2007 Shonky Awards in Sydney.
So what topped this year’s list? One of Australia’s leading banks, a popular spread aimed at children and a major appliance manufacturer. CHOICE gave out nine awards in all:

Teleconfusion: Mobile phone industry
Spoiling the fun: Play For Fun Flying Ring
Nasty [...]

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You can view speaker presentations, video interviews with delegates and speakers and congress photos online at the following places. We will be uploading speaker papers where there was no presentation as soon as we can get copies. We hope to upload audio files of all sessions in the near future. In the next few days [...]

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Coco-cola, Kellogg’s, and Mattel top the list of international brands guilty of abusing consumer rights, with Takeda Pharmaceuticals winning the overall prize for taking advantage of poor US regulation and advertising sleeping pills to children, despite health warnings about paediatric use.

The International Bad Products Awards has made news worldwide. Here are just some of [...]

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The 18th Consumers International World Congress is already making headlines in Australia and overseas. Junk food marketing was the big story of the day:

Consumer groups push for tighter junk food restrictions – ABC
Bad products to be named and shamed – The Age
Push to ban soft drink ads for young – SMH
Irresponsible companies in firing line [...]

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