Ads in #space
#NovaC lander : #Columbia Sportswear
#Ispace lander : #JapanAirlines, #Suzuki, #SMBC bank
#AxiomSpace : #Mumm champagne
#VoyagerSpace : #Hilton hotel

In the late 1990s, #PizzaHut paid to place a logo on a Russian space mission, #Pepsi paid seven figures for Russian astronauts to pose beside a four-foot-high replica of its soda can, and the Israeli food brand #Tnuva hired a Russian astronaut to film a 90-second commercial for one of its milk products. #Adidas, #EstéeLauder, and #Mattel have dispatched their products to the #ISS https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/space-mission-brand-advertising-opportunities/674038/

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Every Brand Wants to Get in on Space Marketing

Brands are sending their products into orbit and plastering their logos on spacecraft. Will ads dull our sense of wonder about the universe?

The Atlantic

#Tnuva Is the largest food company in #Israel . The food companies, Tnuva included, tried to block the 2017 labeling reforms that required clear and simple red labels for products with high levels of sugars, sodium or saturated fats.

Lobbying managed to delay those reforms for several years and remove some of their useful parts.

Recently the Kan 11, the Israeli public broadcaster, aired a comedy about the parliament. Their example corruption issue was exactly that: the food labeling reform.

No new government in #Israel yet. But in the mean time, Motti Babchik, an aide to minister Litzman (former Minister of Health) was arrested yesterday for allegations of corruption.

Police investigates allegations of bribes by the drug company #Roche, #Tnuva (Israel's largest food company) and the tobacco company #Phillip_Morris .