Slimming World Take Legal Action Against Asda!
posted on: February 08, 2017. posted in: Weight loss
Have a read of the following message sent out to Slimming World members, explaining their reasoning for taking legal action against Asda.
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With regards to the Slimzone Meals at Asda.
A message for our members.
We wanted to let you know that after careful consideration and on the advice of our legal team, we have this week taken action to ask Asda to remove our trade marks from their range of Slimzone meals.
We do believe that Asda are unlawfully using our much loved and much respected name and trade marks on their meals (that’s Slimming World, Extra Easy and Free), and are trading on the back of our brand’s reputation, which we’ve built and nurtured over 47 years.
We’ve worked hard over these 47 years to earn the trust and confidence of our Consultants, our members and the UK and Irish public – and maintaining that trust and confidence is at the heart of our decision.
At the same time, we have decided that we won’t be adding the Slimzone products to our official nutrition database. We are unable to give an accurate value for them and by our calculations from the very limited information we’ve been able to obtain, a number of the meals could not be designated Free. Although we asked Asda to let us have a more detailed breakdown of the ingredients used, they have not supplied those details and we have put on hold any decision about whether or not to include the meals in our official database.
We must stress at this point that the Slimzone meals - while being packaged as if to replicate our own range retailed in Iceland – cannot be directly compared in this way. You will know that the collaboration between Iceland and Slimming World is very different. Iceland have always worked honestly and transparently with us, and our own food and nutrition teams work hard to ensure only the best ingredients are used, and that the very highest standards are monitored and maintained. We are confident of the provenance and integrity of every ingredient and we are an intrinsic part of the development and production processes. We’ve had no such involvement in the Slimzone meals at Asda and without more detail, we cannot assume that the meals count as Free, no matter how close the ingredients list might appear.
We know that this news will be frustrating to some members and we are truly sorry for the disappointment it will cause. The situation is beyond our control. The case is now in the hands of a judge and we won’t be able to comment further on the meals themselves until we know the outcome of the case.
In the meantime, please be assured that our primary focus in our groups remains unchanged – and that our very best service to you, with the ideas and strategies you develop in group each week, is to support you (wherever you can) to create satisfying healthy meals for you and for your family (if that is what you’d like to do) - from scratch, and from the huge list of delicious and filling Free Foods listed in your Food Optimising books. This is how we promise to help you navigate your own personal route to a healthy new lifestyle that will help you to lose weight and to sustain your healthy new weight for life.
Thank you for your continued support to Slimming World and your fellow members in group – we wish you every continued success to your dream weight.
With our warmest best wishes
Slimming World
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And now allow Rebelfit to translate for you...
We are money grabbers who want to profit from your obesity. We don't want Asda to cut into our profits by offering nutritionally identical meals to ours for a much lower price. Therefore we won't add them to our nutritional database, or call them "free", because, quite simply, we want you to buy ours, not theirs. And because we haven't deemed them "free", if you eat them you can feel suitably guilty for breaking our plan rules.
Liam
p.s. When will people see through this company? When will people understand that it is profit driven machine that uses terminology like "free foods" to control their customer's purchases, directing them only to their own products, or those who pay them?
