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Koch keeps doing business in Russia as top journalist says family fortune came from Hitler: report
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By David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement March 14, 2022
Award-winning journalist Jane Mayer, who literally wrote the book on the Koch Brothers and Koch Industries, pointed to a report published Monday stating, “Koch Industries continues doing business in Russia.” Despite major U.S. corporations shutting down operations after Putin’s illegal war on Ukraine, major U.S.-based multinational corporations, from Apple to Disney to McDonald’s, have responded by pulling out of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Mayer’s 2016 book “Dark Money” focuses on Charles Koch and (the now late) David Koch, the powerful conservative billionaire Koch Brothers.
Monday morning in his widely-read newsletter Popular Information Judd Legum reported Koch Industries doesn’t seem to be joining the American movement to isolate Putin and Russia – even after his forces have slaughtered thousands of innocent civilians in Ukraine.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/koch/
They have only one fucking mission, greed and taking down the planet....
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/14/business/papa-johns-russia.html
Papa John’s International said last week that it was suspending all of its corporate operations in Russia, following in the footsteps of other high-profile American brands like McDonald’s and Starbucks.
However, the 190 Papa John’s restaurants in the country are still open and selling pizzas. And they have no plans to stop.
These Papa John’s shops are primarily owned by Russians through a franchise agreement with a company controlled by Christopher Wynne, a Colorado native who has lived part time and worked in the country since the early 2000s. And even as the war with Ukraine continues and numerous global food brands and retailers suspend operations and stop selling goods in Russia, little has changed with his operation, said Mr. Wynne, 45.
“The best thing I can do as an individual is show compassion for the people, my employees, franchisees and customers without judging them because of the politicians in power,” he said.
Papa John’s International said last week that it was suspending all of its corporate operations in Russia, following in the footsteps of other high-profile American brands like McDonald’s and Starbucks.
However, the 190 Papa John’s restaurants in the country are still open and selling pizzas. And they have no plans to stop.
These Papa John’s shops are primarily owned by Russians through a franchise agreement with a company controlled by Christopher Wynne, a Colorado native who has lived part time and worked in the country since the early 2000s. And even as the war with Ukraine continues and numerous global food brands and retailers suspend operations and stop selling goods in Russia, little has changed with his operation, said Mr. Wynne, 45.
“The best thing I can do as an individual is show compassion for the people, my employees, franchisees and customers without judging them because of the politicians in power,” he said.
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Christopher Wynne is a 'master franchisee' via his firm, PJ Western
http://pjwestern.com/
Starting in Moscow, Russia with only 4 stores, PJ Western has built one of the largest pizza businesses in the world from the ground-up
PJ Western was founded in 2006 and acquired in the majority of the Master Franchise for Papa John's Russia in 2008 when there were only 4 stores in Moscow. Since then, PJW has opened more than 240 stores, launching the Papa John's brand in 7 countries in eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Exclusive Rights to Growing Markets
260 Million People in PJ Western Territories
The Company has exclusive rights to Territories have a total population of more than 260 million, equivalent to nearly 80% of the population of the US. PJ Western Territories cover Russia, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan with eventual plans to expand further to the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
