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“They destroyed our lives and then gave a few people a job. It is nothing”: Some unanswered questions for SodaStream

…ess  SodaStream recently paid the expenses of local Brighton journalist John Keenan when he flew over from the UK to see the factory, yet they would not let researchers already in the West Bank in. Brighton is the location of EcoStream, SodaStream’s first own brand shop in the UK, and it has been met by weekly boycott demonstrations since its opening in the middle of 2012. As part of its PR strategy, SodaStream has also invited the Brighton… Continue reading

Corporate Watch refused permission to visit the SodaStream factory in Mishor Adumim

SodaStream’s premises in Airport City – Tel Aviv SodaStream’s factory in the illegal settlement industrial zone of Mishor Adumim In August 2012 the Israeli carbonated beverage manufacturer SodaStream opened their first own brand shop in the UK. EcoStream, which is owned by SodaStream, is located in Brighton and promotes itself as an eco friendly alternative to bottled drinks. However, SodaStream is far from an ethical company…. Continue reading

Settlement expansion in the Mishor Adumim industrial zone

Aerial view of Mishor Adumim During the last four years Corporate Watch have made numerous visits to the settlement industrial zone of Mishor Adumim with the aim of documenting the companies working there.  We have also been highlighting the impact the expansion of the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim is having on the Palestinian communities living in the area and tried to contextualise the information to inform international BDS action… Continue reading

Campaigners target corporations complicit in the latest Gaza massacre

…tate the continuing ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Many activists in the UK have targeted corporations and organisations complicit in Israeli militarism, apartheid and occupation in response to the attacks over the last week. Ecostream In Brighton last Saturday activists locked themselves to the Ecostream store, a shop owned by an Israeli company that has its main manufacturing facility in the West Bank settlement of Mishor Adumim (see here). Lat… Continue reading

Israeli Company seeking to stop protest in the UK

The CEO of Soda Club, an Israeli company with a production facility in the settlement industrial zone of Mishor Adumim, has vowed to stop the protests happening outside its UK shop. Daniel Birnbaum told local paper The Argus today that the firm will take legal action to clear the protesters from in front of their store. Ecostream, Soda Club’s store in Brighton has faced biweekly pickets outside its shop in Western Road by supporters of th… Continue reading

Dear Corporation: A response to SodaStream

As Corporate Watch has previously reported (see here) SodaStream, an Israeli carbonated beverages manufacturer, has recently opened a shop called EcoStream in Brighton. SodaStream products are also stocked by major retailers such as Robert Dyas, John Lewis, Argos, Comet, Lakeland, Conran and some Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda stores. The Brighton shop is their first in the UK, the location was chosen because of the city’s green credentials. So… Continue reading

Israeli Apartheid Profiteer Sodastream opens new store in Brighton

Sodastream, a carbonated beverage manufacturer is based in the Mishor Adumim settlement industrial zone. Mishor Adumim is an industrial are attached to the residential settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, East of Jerusalem in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Israeli company Soda Club, which owns the Sodastream brandname, has opened a new store called Ecostream on Western Road in Brighton. Sodastream, a carbonated beverage manufacturer is based in t… Continue reading