Thread: Buy Russian

Originally Posted by detail

BTW, if you buy beer of foreign brand, do you look at the info on the package? 99% of such beer is produced in Russia, so when you buy "Karlsberg" or "Fosters" it is "Baltika", "Beck's" is "Klinskoye" and so on. You just don't have an idea. Most of food is already produced in Russia whatever brand it carries.

Yeah, this is pretty common -- not just for Russia. Foreign companies are some times well-served by being seen as "new," "hip," or "unconnected" but also sometimes this is a problem -- there are already existing brands that have the people's loyalty or they just have good connections and networks. I think Coke, for instance, owns soda companies in Mexico and India, that don't necessarily carry their brands. Fanta is the Japanese variant -- which I think Coke owns (or at least has an agreement of some sort with).

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by detail

BTW, if you buy beer of foreign brand, do you look at the info on the package? 99% of such beer is produced in Russia, so when you buy "Karlsberg" or "Fosters" it is "Baltika", "Beck's" is "Klinskoye" and so on. You just don't have an idea. Most of food is already produced in Russia whatever brand it carries.

Yeah, this is pretty common -- not just for Russia. Foreign companies are some times well-served by being seen as "new," "hip," or "unconnected" but also sometimes this is a problem -- there are already existing brands that have the people's loyalty or they just have good connections and networks. I think Coke, for instance, owns soda companies in Mexico and India, that don't necessarily carry their brands. Fanta is the Japanese variant -- which I think Coke owns (or at least has an agreement of some sort with).

They sell Fanta here. I got some Georgian-branded Fanta the other day. Crazy alphabet.

Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey

They sell Fanta here. I got some Georgian-branded Fanta the other day. Crazy alphabet.

In England, they sell Georgian-branded Fanta? Weird...

By the way here is a top of goods for those who wants to buy russian: http://www.100best.ru/100bsite/show....ockid=1&rid=10 But please don't look into the "amateur and folk arts" sections, there are so many craррy stuffs there

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey

They sell Fanta here. I got some Georgian-branded Fanta the other day. Crazy alphabet.

In England, they sell Georgian-branded Fanta? Weird...

Not normally, just in one newsagent, they seem to have some. God knows why. Still, it's interesting.

Well I was looking for some gear, and being a fond of the brand of Boss in some way, I didn't found what I needed from Boss. So I was compelled to search beyond Boss and suddenly came across a Russian company producing gear. The prices were 2-3 times as cheap as Boss gave, but the quality exceeded. And they export their stuff to Europe!

Here I'd like to give a few samples:

http://yerasov.ru/sound/GR1_GRUNGE.mp3

http://yerasov.ru/sound/GT2_BRITISH1.mp3

http://yerasov.ru/sound/CE3%2BCS2_BLUES.mp3

http://yerasov.ru/sound/CW2%2BFC1_WAH.mp3

So, I'm thinking, though I'm not sure about relaibility.