Celebrity henna tattoo artist Ash Kumar is to decorate the packaging for the new Eid and Diwali range of chocolates. Ash Kumar, whose clients include Madonna, Julia Roberts, Shilpa Shetty and Demi Moore, has created a design inspired by his henna artwork. They are being launched in Birmingham and London and sold on their website:

http://www.thorntons.co.uk/ThorntonsSite/product/Browse_By_Occasions_Celebrations/2371.htm

Thorntons are also working on a range of new products for Asian weddings for February.

“This is the first time Thorntons has designed a product specially for Eid and Diwali,” said Thorntons brand manager Emma Dickinson. “These are growing festivals in the UK and confectionery gifting plays a large part of them.”

Ash Kumar added that the gifting is “something the Asian community prides itself on”.

pssst … don’t tell Daily Mail readers as they may think this is part of The Invasion. They may also want to avoid Brent Cross too: http://brentcross.co.uk/events/special-offers/thorntons-eid/

I don’t think so”

Is it hard to envisage that not all people think as you do?

They want it. Retailers such as Benetton do a lot of market research to find out if there is enough local demand before investing in a store in another country.

Its like worrying about the appearance of parmesan in our supermarkets because it may lead to the demise of cheddar stocks and British Life As We Know It.

I’m beginning to think that he posted at least some of them

actually, I thought that the whole present Sunny’s acticle is posted for laugh, so I decided to support it

I don’t think so

Interesting that Asda is marketing as an Asian range rather as some brand with an Eastern twist in the name.

”imagine a woman from some Eastern country, who finds out that she can’t buy traditional style clothes in local mall anymore – there are only “european” dresses – I don’t think her reaction would be different…”

OK, so it’s slightly funny.

Why imagine when you can stick to the truth.

ASDA are offering predominately ‘western’ style clothes (though a lot of them are manufactured overseas…). Lets not forget that a lot of western businesses have strategies to attract more of the brown pound.

After visiting India (after a long gap) I saw that there had been an influx of western brands in the local shopping malls and not just indian shops selling western brands but retailers such as Benetton, Nike in their own outlets. Over there this change is embraced as globalisation offering more choice not a cultural or religious conspiracy by other races. (More like the culture and religion of revenue that is being exercised methinks.)

let’s imagine a woman from some Eastern country, who finds out that she can’t buy traditional style clothes in local mall anymore – there are only “european” dresses – I don’t think her reaction would be different…

p.s. spending your time, looking through the numerous comments on newspaper site? Sunny, you really have too much time on your hands and no real problems

About the ASDA-related comments…Ok I did have a chuckle too, but this is starting to get worrying now.
It looks like the pendulum swung big time and now there’s a blow to social cohesion every 5 minutes.
And exactly like in 1 to 1 rows each says the other one started it. So you get the right going on about Anjem Choudhary, but to be fair it doesn’t take a genius to see that just one copy of the Daily Mail and a fake anti-Muslim story in the Sun could be enough to push a dozen people countrywide into th earms of Choudary and pals.

But then how much do you rake in from your website efforts ?

Guido Fawkes is reputed to make £5000 per week !

pass us your chai recipie Sunny!

…that doesn’t sound right.

I actually think this range will flop. As big as Asda is they can’t compete with the the way the fashions change and the variety that your local asian clothes shops offer. On top of that what they cannot do is provide that made to measure effect which local asian shops can. Some even haev their own tailors, most will sell loose fabric which women take to tailors.