{"id":28901,"date":"2013-08-16T03:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28901"},"modified":"2013-08-16T03:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:13:24","slug":"german-company-forced-to-scrap-sales-of-new-yellow-and-blue-toilet-freshener-because-it-resembled-the-flag-of-neighbouring-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28901","title":{"rendered":"German company forced to scrap sales of new yellow and blue toilet freshener because it resembled the flag of neighbouring Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/toilet-cleaning-product.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28899\" alt=\"toilet cleaning product\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/toilet-cleaning-product.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/toilet-cleaning-product.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/toilet-cleaning-product-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/toilet-cleaning-product-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>German consumer goods company Henkel has caused a stink with its brand of toilet freshener after Ukrainians complained that it resembled their national flag.<\/p>\n<p>The yellow-and-blue Bref Duo Stick freshener has been removed from sale in eastern Europe after a TV advertisement aired on a Russian channel was seen in neighbouring Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The advert shows the freshener that looks like the flag being put under the toilet rim.<\/p>\n<p>Tore Birol, Henkel&#8217;s general manager for laundry and home care products in Ukraine, said yesterday that the company had pulled the product within three days of the complaints.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;We are very sorry if people were offended by the design of our new product&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Birol explained that the freshener was coloured yellow to represent its lemon scent and blue to symbolise water and hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German consumer goods company Henkel has caused a stink with its brand of toilet freshener&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}