Ferrari get De Beers

Not who I would have guessed, but they've got deep pockets!

 

DeBeers, as in DeDiamonds? Or de beers, as in 45 bottles of de beers on the wall, 45 bottles of de beers!

 

You don't need to be a Rhodes Scholar to figure that one out!

 

random sponsor, but a sponsor none the less...

 

THAT is the funniest thing I've heard all year. I'm not one to type lol....but here goes.....LOL!

 

Will we start seeing Ferrari branded jewelry like we already have Corvette branded jewelry?

 

Honestly, seems like a step down from Vodafone.

 

Seems odd for De beers to choose Ferrari given the demographic Ferrari currently target their merchandise at (not the average Ferrari owner ), if the Ferrari clothing and accessory ranges were a stylish Italian affair I could understand, but not with today’s Style less rubbish.......unless De Beers want to go down market

 

Great, just friggen great. Now they are willing to give anyone with deep pockets sponsorship regardless of their honesty, integrity, or fairness.

De Beers has LONG been knows as scum of the earth price-fixing artists who are controlling the price of diamonds.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D11FA3B5F0C738DDDAE0894DC404482


https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/debeers_settlement

These guys are scum. And i guess Ferrari now wants to associate themselves with them.

 

You beat me to it, great job picking a sponsor, A-holes, how about a nice gold mining company next time as well. I hear that's such a wholesome business too. What the heck are they thinking.

http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/corporate/debeers/

 

Maybe they'll come up with a clever idea, like putting a $3million diamond on the nose of the Ferrari. Except Massa's will be cubic zirconia--shhhh!! Don't tell him.

 

Didn't a team do that in a race last year IIRC ?

 

Yes, I believe it was Jaguar at the Monaco Grand Prix. The car was promptly crashed into a wall resulting in the loss of the diamond.

 

LOL...I was just wondering if they were going to try to pull something like Jaguar did at Monaco in '04. I really hope not, I think it would be too much of a gimmick for Ferrari.

Mark

 

I think if I had to choose between De Beers who are guilty of price fixing in the diamond business (a mostly victimless crime, as nobody I know was ever forced to buy a diamond or be shot to death) and Marlboro who are guilty of causing untold hundreds of thousands of deaths, misery and pain, and who have directly influenced the massive cost of healthcare, I think I would choose De Beers everytime.
Scum of the earth indeed!

 

Or even stay at the Holiday Inn Express for that matter

 

Unfortunately, Alex most of F1's globabl rise was due to the Tobacco Industry. Hey at least they don't have Tic Tacs on the side.

 

Couldn't have said it better myself. Just one more reason to regard the boys from Maranello with contempt.

 

Took the words right out of my mouth. . err fingers.

DeBeers might be sheisty monopolizing bastards but they don't kill thousands of people every year. Well not publically anyway, in that biz you never really know, lol.

But then again I guess people are no more forced to smoke than they are to drop eleventy billion dollars on some dumb rock.

 

You got that right - that's some ugly stuff on their website - Vodafone sure made more sense with their Ferrari themed offerings and pricing for the "fans".

Carol

 

Actually, they meant Da Bears!

But isn't it appropriate that a company that controls diamond prices and a company that withheld health information both sponsor a company that controls F1?

 

What are you kidding me? Ever hear of african conflict diamonds? They are just as dirty if not dirtier than Marlboro. Nobody is forced at gun or knife point to smoke. Maybe nobody you know was ever forced to buy a diamond but how many were forced to mine for them?

 

What do you know about African conflict diamonds? They make up less than a miniscule percentage of all diamonds mined in any given year. De Beers's crime is not conflict diamonds. For that you can thank the CIA and US foreign policy in Africa, which funded all sides in the civil war in Angola. De Beers and all other legitimate diamond traders don't touch blood diamonds. They can't afford to.
What De Beers are guilty of is price fixing - hardly the same as marketing tobacco to young people and creating lifelong addictions that damage and kill humans. The ugly truth is that the tobacco industry is vital to the financial health of the federal government as well as state governments. The amount of tax revenue they get from smokers is huge and if everybody stopped smoking and lived longer the cost of providing social services beyond the current average lifespan of humans would be catastrophic, especially given the reduction in tax revenues.
But to equate a financial crime in the luxury goods business with the devastation caused to the health of humanity by tobacco is simply asinine.

 

That's your opinion. Whether you are correct or not is not even the point. To a casual observer, or anyone with a political view on the subject, it seems just as bad or even worse. While you may feel the way you do about tobacco some people feel just as strongly about the dirtiness in the diamond industry led by companies such as DeBeers. Bad choice, end of story.