Thread: Corporate Olympics

The games are starting to look like a corporate logo-infested NACAR game so I figured I'd do some internet surfing.

Corporate sponsors tighten grip on the Olympics

For their sponsorship money McDonald’s have built inside the Olympic park their biggest outlet in the world—3,000 square feet, two floors—expected to serve 1,200 customers per hour. It is the only branded cooked food product that can be sold at Olympic venues. McDonald’s also secured exclusive rights to sell chips/fries—banning 800 other retailers from doing so. It evoked so much opposition—including an injunction that fish and chips must be sold together to avoid the ban—that the rules had to be relaxed.
Spectators inside Olympic venues can only use Visa card cash points, as Visa has exclusive rights over the Olympic system of payments. As a result 80,000 spectators attending the Team GB soccer match against United Arab Emirates at Wembley in London found they could not buy food or drink, after the Visa payment system at the stadium crashed.

Spectators have been warned not to upload pictures onto Youtube or Facebook from inside the Olympic park. This warning has been extended to athletes, who have been banned from posting messages from the Olympic park thanking their sponsors.

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In the Mars trilogy the Internats (International Corporations) eventually consolidated into 7 Metanats (Metanational Corporations) which controlled 90% of Earth's business, resources, production, etc. And I thought it was just good hard science-fiction, not reality.

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Originally Posted by Matt Foley

The games are starting to look like a corporate logo-infested NACAR game so I figured I'd do some internet surfing.

Corporate sponsors tighten grip on the Olympics







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In the Mars trilogy the Internats (International Corporations) eventually consolidated into 7 Metanats (Metanational Corporations) which controlled 90% of Earth's business, resources, production, etc. And I thought it was just good hard science-fiction, not reality.

Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So...McGold then?

Originally Posted by Matt Foley

The games are starting to look like a corporate logo-infested NACAR game so I figured I'd do some internet surfing.

Corporate sponsors tighten grip on the Olympics







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Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You do know that corporations are people, don't you?

hehe, non-sponsors have to cover up their own logos

"So, Dow Chemical — which can use all the good PR it can afford — gets to slap its logo on the Olympic Stadium but the manufacturer of hand-dryers had to cover all its trademarked stamped pieces of equipment. And out at Wimbledon — where Pimm’s is the traditional go-with-tennis tipple — don’t bother asking for any, at least not by that name. Its bottler, British-owned Diageo, is not an official sponsor and thus can’t be seen to be promoting itself at the historic complex with which it’s so closely associated because that would be impinging on Coca-Cola. As a result, Pimm’s, though still available to spectators, will simply go by the name No. 1 Cup for the duration of the Games and be sold in unbranded bottles."

London 2012: Branding bullies sully spirit of the Games with corporate greed: DiManno - thestar.com

London 2012: Going nowhere fast, the Olympic lanes - Telegraph

Dubbed “Zil lanes” by critics, they are reserved for members of the “Olympic family” including competitors, officials and sponsors. Ordinary motorists or cyclists using them face a £130 fine.

How cute, they even get their own lane on the highway.

Hello and welcome today to the 100$ billion dash for tax havens. In the first lane we have McDonalds, second Visa, third Bank Of America, fourth Caterpillar, and in the final lane we have Goldman Sachs. There's the starting pistols and they're off! Bank of America in first place but barely staying ahead of Goldman Sachs. Here comes Caterpillar in third. Bank of America finishes first! Followed by Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar, Visa then McDonalds. Now that is a corporate Olympic event.