BesTaste Dimsum

BesTaste Dimsum is a product manufactured by Ramar Foods, the company that has pirated food brands from the Philippines, including the widely known Magnolia Ice Cream.

We urge Filipino Americans and Fil-Canadians to BOYCOTT all products manufactured by the OMGpeke company Ramar Foods.

Best Taste products to boycott:
– Best Taste Chicken with Shrimp Shumai 10oz
– Bestaste Pork with Shrimp Shumai 10oz
– Bestaste Chicken Asado Siopao 20oz
– Bestaste Hamonado Siopao 20oz
– BestTaste Pork Asado Siopao 20oz
– BestTaste Siopao Bola Bola 4pcs 20oz
– BestTaste Spicy Pork Asado Siopao 20oz

Exercise your power as a consumer.

There are so many ethical choices you can make.

For example, GOLDILOCKS is now making siopao. This is a Philippine company with production facilities in the Philippines and in North America. Unlike Ramar Foods, Goldilocks is a Philippine company. Unlike Ramar Foods, Goldilocks never stole a longstanding iconic brand from the Philippines.

Do NOT buy Ramar’s BesTaste Dimsum. Do NOT buy Ramar’s Siopao. Do NOT buy Ramar’s Shumai.

Spend your money on the products of companies that follow ethical business practices.

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Is Magnolia Ice Cream in the USA Owned by Magnolia Philippines?

No, it is not.

Magnolia Ice Cream USA is owned by Ramar Foods, the Northern California company that pirated the Magnolia ice-cream brand's logo from the Philippines.

History:

The Philippine company San Miguel created and developed the Magnolia ice-cream brand in the 1920s.

In the early 1970s, a completely unaffiliated family in California started marking their own ice-cream with the Magnolia mark in order to hoodwink Filipino Americans into thinking they were somehow related or the same.

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Lawsuits Against Phil-Am Food

PhilAm Food / Phil-Am Merchandising Inc. / Philam Merchandising
Address: 683 Newark Avenue, Jersey City

There are at least THREE (3) known lawsuits filed against PhilAm Food of New Jersey.

Note that this is the Jersey City grocery store, which has been accused in a federal lawsuit of encroaching on the legal rights of the Phil-Am wholesaler, a completely separate company that wants to have nothing to do with Philam Food and its business practices.

MARIAN OSDON v. ERWIN SANTOS (2015)

Lawsuit filed against PhilAm Food owner Erwin Santos and Phil-Am Merchandising

This is ongoing as of October 2016.

Docket information: http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/

LAGASPI v. PHIL-AM MERCHANDISING et al

Defendant: FLORENTINA SANTOS, PHIL-AM MERCHANDISING and OLIVER SANTOS
Plaintiff: JAMIE DELEON LAGASPI
Case Number: 2:2013cv01168
Filed: February 26, 2013
Court: New Jersey District Court
Office: Newark Office
County: Hudson
Referring Judge: Mark Falk
Presiding Judge: William J. Martini
Cause of Action: Fair Labor Standards Act

Details can be found here:
filamworld.com/places/united-states/new-jersey/jersey-city/food/phil-am-food/

PHIL-AM TRADING, INC. v. PHIL-AM MERCHANDISING, INC.

Plaintiff: PHIL-AM TRADING, INC.
Defendant: PHIL-AM MERCHANDISING, INC.
Case Number: 2:2015cv07132
Filed: September 28, 2015
Court: New Jersey District Court
Office: Newark Office
County: Hudson
Referring Judge: Leda D. Wettre
Presiding Judge: Susan D. Wigenton
Cause of Action: 15:1125
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff

Read the details: Phil-Am Trading wholesaler vs Phil-Am Food grocery store

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