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Ramar Foods

Magnolia is a Philippine ice-cream brand whose origins clearly go back to the 1920s. It has belonged to the San Miguel company for most of its history.

In the 1970s, a totally unaffiliated Filipino American family in California USA started marking their own ice-cream products with the “Magnolia” name in order to surf on the goodwill that the original Magnolia had developed among Filipinos from the old country.

The Filipino American family Quesada, operating as the Ramar Foods company, filed a trademark application claiming the Magnolia mark for their exclusive use in the United States. The fact that San Miguel had been using the Magnolia name and logo for much longer in the Philippines and was the originator of that name and logo was irrelevant under U.S. law.


Likewise… Ramar Foods filed a trademark application in the United States for the brand name “Pampanga’s Best” in the year 2000.

Pampanga’s Best is a well-known brand in the Philippines, having been in the business of making tocino and longanisa since 1967 until today.

There is no business relation between “Pampanga’s Best” of Ramar Foods USA and the original *Pampanga’s Best* of the Philippines.


Other brands produced by Ramar Foods: Orientex, Frescano, Manila Gold Frozen Calamansi, Baguio, So Naimas, Turo-Turo Gourmet, Kusina ni Maria, Magnolia Longanisa (sic), Magnolia Tocino, Magnolia Beef Tapa, Magnolia Frozen Hot Dogs, Bestaste Dimsum/Siopao/Shumai

BOYCOTT in effect for all products of this OMGpeke company.

Email or message the stores that carry these products and inform them of how this company has trampled upon the dignity of the Philippines.

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