10 British Companies That Destroyed Their Reputation Instantly
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- One wrong move can destroy you forever. For this video, WatchMojoUK counts down 10 British Companies That Destroyed Their Reputation Instantly. We're looking at British companies that aren’t what they used to be - or global companies that ruined their reputation, but only in the UK. Let us know in the comments which of these companies you think should go bankrupt.
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The KFC chicken was most pathetic sort of public outrage, 'I had to go to Burger King'
I know right. Oh the horror! What sort of sad and entitled comment is that, from that woman
She lucky to be able to eat at all
I lol'ed!!
A trainee Karen. Not quite "I demand to speak to the manager !" yet, but she's getting there. Give her time.
😂
Pathetic isn’t it?
Didn't the Post Office go out of its way to ruin the lives of several of its Sub Postmasters because they didn’t want to admit their accounting system sucked ass?
I think that's a bit more damning then. "Oh boo hoo, Cadbury's chocolate isn't as good as it used to be"
Yes
& yes again. Love chocolate hate the post office.
Also the British Tory government were complicit. Just like in the tragic,heartbreaking,disgusting tainted blood scandal 🤬
several... try several hundreds
yes the vicar of marmon wanted far too much
Im surprised you didn't have Dasani on the list. Their "Got Spunk" ad was disastrous, then it was found they were just bottling local tap water. Needless to say, Dasani doesn't sell in the UK anymore. 😆
Peckham Water...Fools and Horses. 😆
Water bottling employee revealed on Reddit the label saying ground water source is only true by the bucket full they added to tap water in a big container.
i have passed the bottling plant in Sidcup so many times and still think of that product
Post Office is a bit of a stinker .
I can't think of a single product or service that is better today than before.
remember RATNERS the jewellery company ? in an interview the owner said it was " crap " and it folded soon after !
wasn't it a secretly recorded board meeting? .. anyway .. it was straight from the horse's mouth.
That of course led to "doing a Ratner" becoming a turn-of-phrase to refer to a similar scenario.
@@mijmijrmI think he was at some posh lunch or something like that and got up to give what he had hoped was going to be a funny speech. Ironically he was only talking about one product they did but he holed his company below the waterline.
I remember that, company didn't fold, it changed its name to H.Samuels
@@sean-ve6do The parent company actually became Signet, but most Ratners did become H. Samuels
I live in Adelaide and don’t buy any Cadburys products now that they have abandoned Bournville plain chocolate, its signature brand.
For Doc Martens, buy from Solovair: they're a co-operative (non-profit) that makes footwear from the same area that the original DMs were made.
You're a star! ❤
I remember the whole Horsemeat scandal like it was yesterday.
I had to avoid going to TESCO as a result during the scandal.
At least Findus’ Crispy Pancakes are still going but they’re Bird’s Eye now.
So one and a half million people losing their phone connection and a monstrous child abuse scandal are on roughly the same scale of outrage as people not liking the taste of chocolate. This is our modern world.
It’s unacceptable that a publicly funded company pay rock star wages to its executives. If you’re forcing the public to fund an organisation through taxation (that’s what the license fee is) they you being paid Civil Service wages.
What you didn't mention is that when Gary Lineker was suspened by the BBC, it caused a complete walk out of his fellow pundits, commentators, reporters and the Professional Footballers Association told its members not to speak to anyone from the BBC until Lineker was reinstated. Even the pundits and presenters who were not assigned that weekend refused to appear as well, causing an issue that might have gone away quietly into an even bigger news story and an own goal for the Boris Johnson appointed people who suspened Gary Lineker in the first place.
Own Goal 😂
It made the BBC's coverage of the Saturday Football awkward. They had a women's football match Live on Sunday that they cut to as the two teams were walking out with a world feed commentator. MOTD was just Team sheets and sound no graphics telling you how many goals that guy scored. No final score, no football programing on the radio the usual 5 Live Commentators brought commentary and obviously acknowledged what was happening. But I don't think they spoke to any manager after. The Women's show had it's usual titles and brought you world feed commentary of the games that maybe a junior editor had thrown together. MOTD didn't even have that it was basically The Junior Editor cutting the footage adding the graphics team sheets score board and leaving it and maybe the little Referee, Time And Goal and second half indent Graphics. They pretty much fucked it especially as on MOTD Leicester City fans sang about Gary Lineker and I believe a camera cut to him. So it showed most football fans backed him. Politics and football shouldn't go together but the fact he was a freelancer and who owns a production company which runs a Politics show. Was silly the fact the BBC then brought His Political beliefs into affecting Football pissed all of us Football fans off
Cadbury hasn't been selling chocolate for 200 years they started off selling tea and coffee until 1905 they perfected the Dairy Milk chocolate.
As in when the company started.
Then the Americans took over.
Great video!
I had a pair of Docs that I bought in 1994 when I was 15. They lasted until I was 22. The only thing that ruined them was the salt on the roads that we use in the winter in Canada. Never got a blister and there was very little breaking in needed.
Fast forward to now where, in three years, I’ve worn through two different pairs. Different styles but different problems. The first pair were work boots that lost their nonslip ability in four months. The second pair were eight holes that had the leather crack open about six months in. They are my dream shoe but so bloody expensive for something that won’t even last. Not only that but the blisters were horrendous
You can still buy authentic (British made) Doc boots from a store called the British Boot Company in Camden 🇬🇧
I worked there and they're even in their original boxes from 1994, 1978 or whenever 🥾
They now need breaking in now to apparently which means you have to buy second hand ones that someone else has broken in which now ironically means they probably fall apart within about a year of you owning them. Many friends I had at College wore Docs and Said to break them in you need second hand shoes
I can remember Tesco’s comeback from the horse meat scandal. Their advertising campaign at the time was from Wieden & Kennedy and involved a lot of images on white background (or stock footage relevant to the advert) and fitting music. In the case for the horse meat scandal comeback it involved an advert with an image of a roast chicken on a white background, footage of someone grilling steaks on a barbecue and an image of a roast pork joint with crackling and a pledge at the end sourcing all meat and poultry solely from British and Irish farms. The music used was the hymn I Vow To Thee, My Country
I love this guy's voice
Jimmy Saville always gave me 'the creeps'. It was what he said, how he behaved and I have never understood, why most people didn't spot it. Never like Rolf Harris either or Gary Glitter.
The BT one wasn't BT fault. They forced by the government to remove copper from the network leading to using VoIP service which they said would cause issues. All other ISP have the same issues
It is still hugely problematic because HMG has done absolutely NOTHING to mandate nationwide broadband. In a country that is probably one of THE easiest to provide broadband for (the geography of the UK is insanely easy to do so), that should be a cause for national shame.
FFS Spain has double the land area, 2/3rds the population and is incredibly mountainous, has had mandated fibreoptic provision since the and of last year. If your ISP refuses to provide you with a fibreoptic connection, the government will take them to court. My sister lives less than 50km outside Norwich but has NO internet access.
Never trust a Tory.
Doc Martens have been shit way WAY longer than 2019. I bought a pair of black 20 holes back in 2001 and they popped like a fucking pimple after about 4 months.
You can still buy authentic (British made) Doc boots from a store called the British Boot Company in Camden 🇬🇧
I worked there and they're even in their original boxes from 1994, 1978 or whenever 🥾
The horse meat one was tricky...Some folk were going mental, and others (myself included) just shrugged it off lol "I didn't notice and it didn't seem to do any harm so...?" was about the idea for a lot of folk
The issue wasn't horsemeat per se, it was RACEHORSE meat highly contaminated with chemicals that are harmful to humans, Certainly in Europe it is illegal for Racehorse flesh to come anywhere near the food-chain for humans OR animals. Probably not so much in Wrexit Britain these days.
What about Ratners?
Had to change the name on their shops and their name as a company.
I've eaten, and enjoyed horsemeat. Nothing wrong with it at all. It's just that we, here in the UK seem to think that horses are somehow superior to other large quadrupeds, and imbue them with more 'humanity' than other farm animals.
I guarantee that if you have eaten burgers or some sausages in mainland Europe, you have eaten horse.
Where else do people think all the big sausages found in Germany, Poland etc come from? 😮
@@ChrisCooper312 Germany ? Hardly as we love pork and horse meat has to be labelled as such and is ONLY popular in certain parts of Germany if at all.
Do people realise, that probably due to Cadbury being sold to an American company - a 30g bar of dairy milk, has nearly that in SUGAR, it has 22.5g of sugar - to put this in perspective, that's 95% of the daily recommended sugar intake by the NHS
Doc Martens hahaha as counsel estate people had Dr. peppers
I thought ratners jewellery stores would've been on the list. It happened before even I was born but still notorious when the boss of the company appeared on TV and basically admitted that the jewellery he was selling was substandard trash.
Can you do a video of american animated series that could have british equivalents
I don't mind but unlike some of the customers who lost their shite back in 2018 over chicken debacle seriously needed a slap and should have been told "go to a supermarket and buy something, take home and cook".
I've noticed basically no difference in the taste of Cadbury's chocolate and still love it - If it had been "americanised" by Kraft it'd have that distinct taste of sick to it that American chocolates like Hershey have lol
Also the Kraft buyout brought us delicious crossovers with Oreo, Philidelphia and Ritz so I can't really complain
In Australia confusingly Kraft still operated after it demerged, until it was acquired by cheese company Bega and who then acquired LD&D from Kirin both from foreign ownership. And now actual Kraft operates as a trading name of either new sister company Heinz-Watties or I think Mondelez. Also Kraft attempted to sue Bega for the use of the colour yellow (peanut butter packaging) and lost.
We should talk about Royal Mail ruining postmasters lives.
Also, Gary Lineker was right! Of course the tories couldnt have that
I still have my original Doc Martens from 1995.
The issue is companies think more about growing rapidly rather than doing so steadily and surely.
It's however something that is far easier to say rather than do.
I never ate that horse meat because I don't eat those brands or use the kinds of foods that were contaminated...got lucky. By the way it's cheaper to make your own lasagne.
I love Rockstar North ❤
Nice accent. I love Australian.
He’s not Australian,he’s from the North East of England 😂✌🏻
HAHA !!!!!!!!
3:37 thanks to tory government
America chocolate is not that bad. Google the story of Hershey and you will find an amazing story
Cadbury changed their recipe back I thought. I had a dairy milk n the states once, it tasted tainted.
BT going to digital phone lines is not by choice, its a regulation by ofcom that says all providers have to, originally it was meant to be by 2024 but this has been pushed back I think until 2026 now. The reason is a lot more depressing than you think. The main big reason is because sadly a few people have passed away because their Tunstall didnt work on the new digital system and was never tested when converted over. So I don't think BT "destroyed their reputation" but following a regulation nor have all the other providers.
As someone who wears Dr Martens boots allot I have noticed a difference in the quality of the boots although I still have pairs that I have had since 2013 and still going
Now I know why my cadburies tastes like crap Xmas chocolates were horrible last year.
You covered the BBC and didn’t mention Huw Edwards?
Because Huw Edwards is NOT and never has been a child molester. Your vile attempt to shift the guilt away from Jimmy Savile is disgusting, appalling and nauseating.
Out of all of these BT should be the one to fail. Their entire motive and ultimate aim is to extort money from the elderly
this ^
Yes but it wasn't there fault the Government said it didn't want any more Copper wiring by 2024 it has now been pushed back to 2026 and BT have to go with it. There damned if they do damned if they don't. All this comes back to the lovely wankers in Power the Tories
Can anyone please explain more about British gas? Ive jusy moved house, and British gas was already here,so i thought I'd stay with them,but now im hearing so much negative reviews etc,i dont know whether to change now? Ive only been with them for 2 months. Thank you
I remember the KFC thing. And every time i heard some boomer reference the Blitz spirit (which they weren't even alive for and never experienced) as a reason Brexit will be fine, i would always think back to these sames people going absolutely mental because they could get KFC for like 3 days.
The Windows will need Lime again like in the early 1900s Horrible History. Love learning from that U.K. kids show.
Tbf to Rockstar around 2018 is when the Americans took it over/took a share and not only did Gta get ruined so to did the Culture and reputation
The BBC is an embarrassment.
British Gas is an embarrassment
The water companies are an embarrassment,
Cadbury's is an embarrassment
BT is an embarrassment.
British railways are an embarrassment
The NHS is an embarrassment
It seems to be quite difficult to find something that the Tories AREN'T responsible for reducing to the level of embarrassment.
NEVER trust a Tory.
All of the above.
The quality control at Doc Marten's reminds me of that of the Duff Brewery 😅 if you know you know 😊
I never got the overreaction to the horse meat scandal. You can definitely eat horse. You might not want to sure.. But I personally would rather eat a horse than a rabbit. Rabbits are so cute!
I've worked with cows on a dairy farm. And have owned as many as 10 horses at a time in stables on our land when I was married to the ex. And horses are definitely way more stupid than cows. (mad cow disease not withstanding. lol)
Kraft dumped Bournville plain chocolate. I won't buy any of their products theses day.
Some idiots phoned the police about KFC. What a plonker.
I remember the horse meat scandal
I love Cadbury ❤
KFC ran out of chicken! Woman interviewed: 'I had to go to Burger King'--- 'Had to' ?- Only the British!
She could have gone to a smaller Chicken shop I would say Dixy Chicken but there not great, Piri Piri Chicken, Nando's, McDonalds do Chicken she is probably just brand conscious although tbf BK do cracking Chicken Burgers. But if I wanted a Burger I would go anywhere which ever was nearer. BK are more expensive I guess though
I remember the KFC thing!
My family joked:
KFN = Kentucky Fried Nothing
NFC = No F***ing Chicken
Wow
Wasn't there something many years ago, when they were called Kentucky Fried Rats ? Or was that just something local ?
Also re Tesco. A few years back I read about an incident in Yorkshire, I think it was, when a woman bought a ready packaged BLT sandwich in Tesco. Except it wasn't bacon in the filling. It was a dead mouse. 💀 🐀🐀 Nice.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw No idea 🤔
when I look at British Airways over the decade, they are trying to be Ryanair when they cannot be.
Their slow responce IF any responce through customer service Is a joke.
But If they didnt made the list then so be It...
at 2:40, why in the hell british company own by foreign company, isn't there a britain first campaign by some tories
OK, whose idea was it to name their company Nonce Finance, and why were they allowed to live?
The original intention was that the name was an acronym for Number ONly used onCE, which relates to cryptocurrency, but of course, the association with pædophilia made the name inappropriate. It's like Kia's Provo concept, which was criticised for its name having IRA connotations.
It's always a problem with international companies. They often don't do their research about what their names might mean in other languages, or even other countries that speak the same language.
@@ChrisCooper312 Even so, this is the kind of branding and marketing _faux pas_ you expect from the candidates on the UK version of _The Apprentice_ ! It’s just that damn terrible!
Nonce Finance 😂 OOOOH DEAR
I'm curious, us here on a different continent don't know what it means. Please tell us. 👏👏👏
@@Karen-ig6bp it's British slang for a sex offender, especially those involved with minors.
@@Karen-ig6bpNonce is a slang word for a Peadophile so it was appropriately Nonce finance came before they mentioned Jimmy Saville the biggest of them all
Appriopate Jimmy Saville came after
I love BT ❤
North American ‘chocolate’ has wax in it and it tastes like it does. Cadbury’s chocolate was never great but never as vile as North American chocolate 🤮
, to have real,genuine chocolate it has to have at least 85% chocolate solids in it ,so Is white chocolate really chocolate when it rarely contains any chocolate solids 🤔🍫
No, I don’t know what grand auto is. All the lady that is talking about the game maybe her game or maybe just a player I don’t know. I don’t know what game console she is talking about. I was born in 1980. It’s all just a bit of a blur for me. Our family had a commodore, 64. Are used to love playing flame burgers, quest that’s all I played and I was rubbish about it. My dad got hooked on Turracon.
You could add the BBC to the top of this list.
The problems start when we get Americans involved in our business. I am so fed up of the UK getting Americanised year after year. From terrible US advertising to the increased use of Americanisms. I know it might not be everyone’s opinion, but the use of US English is particularly annoying. Many of our young people adopting it in the UK not knowing any difference. I particularly can’t stand adverts for Grammarly! Also, too many Indian call centres scamming us and stealing our Bank details and abusing vulnerable adults (all in the name of profits). No wonder these companies are making profits. American adverts and companies for the US (absolutely), is American investment good for the UK? I think so as long as the routes of a British brand is not forgotten. You can’t replace iconic American buildings with Big Ben! (So why the other way round?).
So the lesson is that privatisation is a disastrous scam? Or is it that capitalism is a shoddy con?
Isn't Thames Water also full of cocaine?
From all those City bankers and london nightclubs 😂
Popeyes Louisiana Chicken > KFC
What happen with KFC? they so how fail to recieve those 11 herbs and spices
Since when has horsemeat become illegal in Europe? Europe was one of the biggest importers of American horsemeat next to Mexico (which is where most of our wild mustangs and other horses in kill pens wind up). Slaughter houses here in America are still slaughtering horses. You Brits might also want to check your pet food for horsemeat too.
The problem was mainly that the horsemeat was not fit for human consumption. Most of Europe doesn't have the taboo about horsemeat. In fact in Austria where I live there are meat Produkts that are rare and delicious (Pferdeleberkäse) made from Horsemeat.
The problem for me, speaking as a Brit, was that we weren’t informed that it was horse meat. I personally don’t have any issue with trying it as long as I know it’s what I am eating. It’s like when they were selling vegetarian products that contained traces of meat.
It was Gluten free products that were made from normal flower that did it for me.
The illegality wasn't in the horseman, it was in the fraudulent labelling and the fact that the meat was, quite literally, putrid in some cases.
10:20 to 10:26?
First world problems 🙄
You can still buy authentic (British made) Doc boots from a store called the British Boot Company in Camden 🇬🇧
I worked there and they're even in their original boxes from 1994, 1978 or whenever 🥾
The only company I want to go bankrupt can't go bankrupt because of their extortion tactics and threats of prison to its non users.
The BBC.
Watch Mojo deserves to go bust. Their weird choices of the best or worst bear no resemblance to actual reality!
Shame i used to love Cadbury but it just doesn't taste the same anymore and is very sickly also rockstar north is just GTA, red dead is rockstar san diego kind of a dumb mistake and rockstar is probably lying game crunch looks set to get worse not better
Don't know anyone who cares about the Rockstar report. Seems strange that you say they destroyed their reputation instantly. NOPE!
The BBC, BBC, BBC, ITV and then of course the BBC.........🤔
Nonce finance 😂😂😂
rockstar mamamia
It's sweet how the British think Cadbury is somehow superior to American chocolate - it's just differently disgusting.
British exceptionalism.
I think you need to learn what a "british" company is.
I found that KFC chicken shortage very funny indeed. As I don't eat any fast food, it had zero effect on me.
You want chicken? Buy one, and cook it yourself. It's not rocket science.
i would be happy if i had horse meat in my burgers i would not care
American chocolate sucks?? Damn now I want to know what GOOD chocolate tastes like!
CADBURYS OR MAYBE GALAXY ?
Nestle?????
@@sullivans2004 MARS...?
@aliengranpa...You'd probably have to import chocolate from either France or Germany. I've always heard that German chocolate has always been vastly superior to anything else in the world. And the French are just incurable romantics and that's how they make their chocolate.
@@susandolan9543 don't ask the French what the secret ingredient is. Noted!
BBC... end of
as long its happens in the UK....
its okay...we dont worry here in the EU!
the UK is like a country from Africa.... a 3rd one!