Or will he be heading over with some hot soapy water and vinegar to fill some cans
FTFY.
https://twitter.com/thomasmaheronf1/status/1144641780069130241?s=19
Thread!
Shit just got real for Rich Energy.
Their branding designer will have to nick another one then.
Rich Energy has been ordered to disclose to ATB Sales (Whyte Bikes) the total UK and global sales to date of cans of Rich Energy featuring the offending logo, as well as the total sums received from these sales.
Place bets now!
Zero sales mean Whyte will get a percentage of zero sales.
Place bets now!
A monkey says it’s a pony.
They didn't even bother replying when I asked where I could buy it in France. Useless ****s.
ah excellent. Was wondering when the judgement was. Wonder what their next play will be
*coughs*
https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/102102/lotus-81-f1
*splutters*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thieme
*guffaws*
https://www.motorsportweek.com/joesaward/id/00102
There's Essex Petroleum and the shyster who hocked Arrows into oblivion, also involving a bogus energy drink brand.
Fairly comprehensive...
SUMMARY OF MAIN POINTS OF COURT ORDER MADE ON 27 JUNE 2019 IN ATB SALES LIMITED -V- (1) RICH ENERGY LIMITED, (2) WILLIAM STOREY, (3) STAXOWEB LIMITED
An Injunction been granted preventing Rich Energy from infringing Whyte Bikes’ copyright in their stag logo. The effect of this is that Rich Energy will not be able to use the stag logo on energy drinks or on any other products; the injunction takes effect on 18 July 2019;
Rich Energy’s request for a 3 month stay of the injunction was refused, they have been allowed a 3 week stay only;
Rich Energy’s request for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal was refused. They can ask the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal. Any application for permission to appeal and/or for a continuation of the stay will have to be made by 18 July 2019.
Rich Energy have been ordered to deliver up all infringing Rich Energy products to Whyte, or, at Rich Energy’s option, to destroy the items or render them non-infringing by 1 August 2019.
A declaration has been made that Rich Energy’s stag’s head logo UK trademark is invalid; this provision will not take effect until 18 July 2019.
Rich Energy has been ordered to disclose to ATB the total UK and global sales to date of cans of “Rich Energy” drink bearing the Rich Energy stag’s head logo and the total sums received from such sales;
Rich Energy has been ordered to pay costs of £35,416 to ATB Sales (Whyte) within 14 days.
Damages for copyright infringement, if not agreed between the parties, will be assessed by the court at a later hearing.
Rich Energy have been ordered to deliver up all infringing Rich Energy products to Whyte
Have Whyte got a licence to dispose of toxic waste?
Sh*t just got real.
Shit is a little more real now as well.
https://twitter.com/thomasmaheronf1/status/1145646723676745728?s=19
Disclosure of funds and investments (including by 3rd parties) relating to their sponsorship of the Haas F1 team.
Shredders be shredding, I'm sure!
I'm also a little surprised at their use of hashtag #betterthanredbull. If there is one thing RedBull is really good at it is marketing. I wouldn't really want to flag myself as a target, especially at this time
If there is one thing RedBull is really good at it is marketing.
I bet they've never run a viral marketing campaign with global coverage and news headlines for £35,416
Is the world ready for a pastie you can’t buy?
I don't think it's possible to improve on the traditional short crust monocoque, personally, but I'm open to new ideas.
Shredders be shredding, I’m sure!
I'm wondering what Haas's involvement / take on this is.
I bet they’ve never run a viral marketing campaign with global coverage and news headlines for £35,416
Thats very true but you do get the impression that RE are winging it rather than being in control. They appear to have become the story rather than the product
matt_outandabout
Subscriber
Shredders be shredding, I’m sure!
I’m wondering what Haas’s involvement / take on this is.
Given that the CEO is a convicted felon I'd think they probably say business as usual.
They're a joke team IMO.
JP
So they will be forced to reveal their payments to Haas, that should provide some entertainment over the summer break.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/rich-energy-court-case-logo-haas/4487108/
Meanwhile, Staxoweb are still featuring the stag logo on their webpage.
https://staxoweb.com/
If I was Whyte I'd set up a premium rate phone number and hand that out to all the journalists as the number for their PR department. By the end of the summer the entire workforce should be able to retire to the Bahamas.
Blatantly copying a logo, then attempting to BS your way out of it???
That's Rich.
http://www.staxocopy.com is from the same group of companies. I'm rather disappointed it didn't turn out to be their logo copying venture :D, rather just a plain old print and document management solution. From the court findings not sure I'd trust them with document management...
Rich Energy looks unlikely to be able to pay ATB Sales' costs. In fact it is unclear how it paid its own (if it did). I think the order for disclosure of sources of funds is to try to identify anyone who may have been bankrolling the litigation. It is possible to get a costs order against the funder in those situations, which is probably ATB's best hope of getting any money back.
The scene - A random petrol station in Elkhart, Indiana.
Enter stage left a shifty looking chap with ten little black cans. He shoves them in a fridge, forgetting to line up the (stolen) logos. Then he reaches for his camera to film the magnificence.
Filmed on a potato.
https://twitter.com/rich_energy/status/1146348916746706944?s=19
That whole post just screams "premium product" to me.
How does anyone expect to run a sucsessful global business with that sort of ametureish promotion ?
You have got to be fing kidding me...
WTF is with that video?
I worked for Coca-Cola for a few years, started out as a merchandiser and spent a lot of time putting in fridges and presenting product. That video makes my teeth itch.
Trimix
How does anyone expect to run a sucsessful global business with that sort of ametureish promotion ?
I think the point is that they don't. They expect you to think that they're running a successful global image, without having to actually do it.
and they are still using the logo everywhere.
I worked for Coca-Cola for a few years, started out as a merchandiser and spent a lot of time putting in fridges and presenting product. That video makes my teeth itch.
They're trying to convey the feeling of actually consuming it.
Bloody amateurs.
Somebody recognised that store on Twitter, the new 'chain' is a convenience store in Elkhart, Indiana. Loving the camera work, 'quick, film it before they notice'.
LOL at the comments on the twitter post
Daniel Eckersley
@dan_eck
Jul 3
Replying to @rich_energy‘Quick, let’s dump this stock before we have to burn it or whatever’
‘Where?’
‘****ing ANYWHERE mate’
‘Done’
‘Right, leg it’
That looks like it was a dare and they've potatoe recorded filmed it as evidence. Probably some palpitating little hormonal kid doing it for his uncle William Storey waititng in the car outside.
That is awesome.
I'm slightly worried about his mental state though
Surely they still have to disclose everything as per the court order?
Hilarious. Properly funny.
'You didn't dump me, I dumped you first!'
What is he drinking?
Maybe it was Haas that told them to go?
I still think they're just trying to build a brand and sell it on ASAP, so if that doesn't appear to be happening any time soon maybe Haas terminated the agreement rather than endure the PR kicking when it turns out there was no money.
Maybe it was Haas that told them to go?
No! Couldn't be that!
😂
I still think they’re just trying to build a brand and sell it on ASAP,
I'm not so sure of that...
Isn't the point of money laundering to turn it into clean money? I'm still not sure how that's supposed to be happening!
you couldn't make this up, or at least if you did no-one would buy it. awesome work
Sick - Oh, that's another thread completely.
This is ****ing awesome. It’s like someone did Sick Bikes as the pilot episode and then the scriptwriters dropped a shit ton of acid when they got the commission for the prime time series.
I’d love to be a fly on Gunther’s wall.
I’d love to be a fly on Gunther’s wall
I wonder if Netflix's camera teams are still following him around...
Yeah this is pretty bizzare - obviously more to it than having a crap weekend and being behind Williams.
Shouldn't they have disclosed the profits etc. by now?
Got until the 18th iirc
Shouldn’t they have disclosed the profits etc. by now?
Think they have another week or so.
Suspect they think this absolves them of any disclosure.
Suspect the courts wil disagree...!
I wonder if Netflix’s camera teams are still following him around…
They were trying hard to get all the teams to agree to be in season 2, not sure if they're filming at the mo.
Imagine if it hadn’t been for those pesky kids Whyte Bikes....
Chris Harris' Twitter!
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">By fortuitous coincidence I conducted a tasting exercise with the very hard to locate @rich_energy this very afternoon! #bristols pic.twitter.com/mj9cx4ioAi</p>— chris harris (@harrismonkey) July 10, 2019
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">What if Rich Energy was Red Bull just trolling us all?</p>— chris harris (@harrismonkey) July 10, 2019
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Does anything work on this forum?
https://mobile.twitter.com/harrismonkey/status/1149011037666140160
https://mobile.twitter.com/harrismonkey/status/1149046701526855683
I honestly think I slipped into a parallel universe at some point when I started reading this and the Sick thread.
Shame that chap hasn't realised that all the E-numbers and B vitamins he lists are natural ingredients.
Unless Katie Price's bristols are actually entirely natural, in which case that's egg on my face.
Chris Harris is starting to look like Keith Allen.
Shouldn’t they have disclosed the profits etc. by now?
Daft question but what makes you think they haven't? Whyte could be in receipt of the details by now quite easily*.
I'm not sure it would be in whyte's interest (or that they'd be entitled) to make them public.
*could but probably aren't.
Isn’t the point of money laundering to turn it into clean money?
Yes. I also thought, generally speaking, it works best if it is done in a low key way. As opposed to lots of headlines which run a risk of getting some investigator curious.
God this annoys the hell out of me. I can't stop looking cos it's a complete car crash yet every time I do I'm getting more and more exposure to this 'brand/game' and at some point I know I'll regret it. I'm probably one of the more untrusting, cynical bastards on here yet I'm sure someone's getting one over on me. It's just a good job that I've only ever willingly bough energy drinks about five times in my life.
**** me. We've all got a bit mouthy and emotional after chugging Woodpecker in the park with our mates, that's epic bridge burning.
Makes Essex Petroleum look like proper white-collar crime again.
Oh. Right. I see.
https://twitter.com/HaasF1Team/status/1149234399982100481?s=19
Storey has been told to get back in his box by the Rich investors, there's a link to the article in the F1 thread
Truly the gift that keeps on giving.
I daresay that Haas will be looking to part company with a disreputable sponsor before too long, I hope that they've been paid in full and up front.
or Storey could find himself getting ousted from his own company
I daresay that Haas will be looking to part company with a disreputable sponsor before too long, I hope that they’ve been paid in full and up front
Or are heavily insured against this particular risk since they suspected* RE didn't have the cash and are right now preparing to shake that magical money tree.
*I've my suspicions about how they might be well aware of this.
"Rogue actions of one individual" apparently. Rich plan to "legally remove the individual"
Taxi for Mr Storey...
Press now suggesting that Rich Energy couldn't make payments.
And I had no idea they had tried to take over/run Force India...?
We're going to need more popcorn.
https://twitter.com/rich_energy/status/1149385021750464512?s=19
Has he forgotten to take his medication?
Clearly the elephant tranquilliser hasn't worked.
Notice a new logo has been submitted to the IPO. Different enough you reckon?
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00003411114
Whyte can't expect to control every Stags Head logo. They might end up on the opposite end of a court action from Dalmore Distillery 😁
This story gets better and better 🙂
Hmm...strangely enough that "new" logo looks less stag and more like they are now making two V signs...a tad schoolyard methinks.
More money well spent on their graphics designer and his "creative process"?
Kinda looks like they're doing this with both hands
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