I heard of Mecca-Cola a while back and today I stumbled upon their website where I got to learn more about them.
Mecca-Cola is a charity business created to use it’s profit to help relieve human suffering where action is still possible.
10% of the profit it makes goes to the children of Palestine and another 10% goes to local charity acts in the countries of distribution.
Mecca-Cola last donated 111,000 US$ to needy Palestinian students.
I think this is great. And I wish more and more people would actually start businesses like this in which the aim is not to suck as much money as possible out of people but to give back to the community and help the needy and the suffering.
the problem is that all muslims all over the world must drink MECCA-COLA instead of the other COLA.
2years ago, When Mr Tawfik Mathlouthi, (French muslim and tunisian of origin), created Mecca Cola, he was called antisemite and racist by the french jewish lobby. His office was attacked and destroyed several times.
Today all arab shops are selling Mecca-Cola, even though several branded copies were created in France as Hallal-Cola, Bilad-Cola, Arab-Cola, or whatever-Cola just for disturbing and annoying Mr Mathlouti.
very good job, and hope they can reach the Arab countries market. fair competition is in general good,but I don’t know about the specific scenario you’re talking about Mohsan. maybe if you live there you know better.
anyways but this idea can be made in local markets, we have a lot of substitutes but it’s not marketed the right way.
I agree.
Arabs and Muslims should encourage these businesses by consuming their products.
And not only Arabs or Muslims. Anyone who cares about human life and wants his money to be used for the good of mankind should encourage these initiatives.
I remember when Mecca-Cola first came out. It was around the 2nd Intifada, a period in which a lot of people were calling for a boycott of Israeli and US goods in.
And so, the Jewish lobbies accused Mr. Mathlouthi of being anti-semitic.
It’s a shame Mecca-Cola isn’t widely available throughout the Arab and Muslim world, I’d certainly be a loyal consumer if it were available in Tunisia.
I remember a while back, there was something called Aqsa-Cola here in Tunisia. I bought it once butnever found it again.
I also remember in the boycott period when I was in Jordan how stores starting bringing drinks from Syria, that has it’s own brands of drinks.
Well, I swore off Cola, since it’s bad for me. But I can sympathize with, and more than that, really support the idea. When I was living in Pakistan for this spring, a nearby store sold Mecca-Cola and I always bought some, to serve to guests, for parties, etc. It wasn’t bad, in fact I really liked it, and I liked the idea of corporate responsibility and charity. Then, all of a sudden, it disappeared from Pakistan. Why?
That said, there’s Zamzam cola, which is really popular. One of my close Egyptian friends works from a Hajj and Umrah travel agency, and he said that this year, Zamzam Cola was served the pilgrims instead of Coca-Cola or Pepsi (has anyone else heard about this?) When Coca-Cola left Iran in 1979, they left behind their bottling plants, which became Zamzam Cola, a huge Iranian soda business. Zamzam’s not bad, either, and has some more “Middle Eastern” flavors.
Ahmad wrote:
“fair competition is in general good,but I don’t know about the specific scenario you’re talking about Mohsan. maybe if you live there you know better…”
Yeah, I heard of Zamzam Cola too around the same time I heard of Mecca Cola.
I wish more people launch businesses of this kind and that people actually encourage them more.