Is there something in Bahrain that prevents Major Alcohol signage on cars???
i noticed on the w/e that the 3 Alcohol sponsored cars had different signage:
JIM BEAM was replaced with THE TEAM but still had small JB signage
JACK DANIELS was replaced with JACK LIVES HERE yet once again had small JD signage
BOTTLE'O entry had HERTZ signage to replace BOTTLE'O as the ymust be an aussie company i assume..
anywy, just wanted to know what the go was with all this??
Cheers
Roh
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Bec M 1:08 pm November 9th 2008
Yes there is. It’s a dry country and you aren’t allowed to advertise, buy or consume alcohol.
Emma-Belle 3:49 pm November 9th 2008
Because of the country’s religion alcohol is banned in some parts and therefore so is the advertising.
jamiefan25 4:13 pm November 9th 2008
I think it is a good idea.
Nic 5:30 pm November 9th 2008
it is a good idea, but its perfectly acceptable to advertise tobacco in bahrain and be sponsored by them, whilst 90% of the rest of the world has banned it.
jp 5:51 pm November 9th 2008
oh i was wondering why every year when the cars go over they change there “stickers”
Mohammed Ali 2:36 am November 10th 2008
Alchahol is not banned in bahrain. You can drink till you knock yourself out… however both alchahol and TOBACOO advertising is banned….
Cait 3:57 pm November 10th 2008
Yeah I was wondering what the go was with that… But now I know and thats really cool that they do that. Still don’t know why they took the XXXX girls coz wouldn’t the outfits they wear be disrespectful to that country??? Most of the women there were pretty covered up but they weren’t.
Jordan 88(JWCR Spokesman) 5:15 pm November 10th 2008
Then howcome the PMM(Ingall and Morris) cars had BWS(BEER WINE AND SPIRITS) and Sirromet written all over them??
Steph 8:59 pm November 10th 2008
Cause its Morris and he does whatever he wants??
Mohammed Ali 10:50 pm November 10th 2008
Cait-
Nope its not disrespectful…. people here dont cover up much and if they want to its ur choice…. they cant say anything to people who dont want to…and vice versa… at times even I think its extreme (people walking around in bikinis in the middle of a shopping mall makes no sense to me)…. the only reason alchaol is not promoted is because the country tends to be surronded by Qatar, Sadui and Kuwait… lets just say that they wont be to happy with alchahol being promoted here… its not banned every store atleast sells some Heniken.. its just that advertising is banned for alchaholic and tobacoo substances.
Cait 11:14 am November 11th 2008
Mohammed Ali-
oh ok well thats fair enough. thanks for straightening that out for me.
Jack 7:07 pm November 11th 2008
I think it was good cause to me the sinage looked cool and also it was creative