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PROMOTIONS & INCENTIVES: Shell promotions dispute intensifies
April 1995
The legal dispute between Shell and Don Marketing over the origin of two promotions has become a public feud, with both sides adopting hardline positions.
Don Marketing’s managing director John Donovan has given Shell a seven-day ultimatum to retract a statement it issued last month to the business press on the affair – or face a libel writ.
“It’s not libellous. Anything else he does is up to him,” says a defiant Shell spokesman.
Donovan and his father Alfred have recently founded the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, which is polling 1,000 Shell retailers to discover their views on the company. As a result a TV news show is now investigating the whole affair.
The Advertising Standards Authority is investigating a complaint levelled by the SCCPG alleging that Shell’s Make Money promotion was flawed because players could see winning tickets through the envelopes, or reseal envelopes with no trace.
“Shell would not run a promotion if it felt it was insecure for its retailers,” says a spokesman.
Shell has applied to the High Court for security for costs. This hearing will occur on April 13, with the timing of further legal action dependant on the result. If Shell is successful, Don Marketing will not be able to proceed with the case unless it can prove it could meet Shell’s legal costs if it lost. Shell is asking for £62,000.
Donovan slapped a writ on Shell for £350,000 at the end of last year over Shell’s Now Showing promotion, and another a year ago over a Nintendo promotion. Donovan alleges the original ideas came from Don Marketing, and that Shell then used them without authority or payment, which Shell denies.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
