The Voice of Reason Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 3 hours ago, John Wright said: You’ve totally misunderstood. The exclusivity deal for ice cream at the Royal is between Davisons and the show organisers, Royal Manx Agricultural Society, which isn’t the government. OK John, thanks for correcting my misunderstanding. Appreciate that. Hopefully this sort of stuff won’t be repeated in future years and all the relevant parties make it clear what the deal is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 (edited) The deal seems quite clear, Davisons paid for an exclusive right to sell Ice Cream with the private enterprise who organise the 'Show', the Defa didn't read the clauses, let a competitor onto their site ans 'whhoooops'. This was despite Galatory knowing the situation regards 'exclusivity' and trying, perhaps, to sneak in the back door???? None of the participants are to blame, they each tried to do what they thought was best, for the Dept or the individual business. ....and finally, it's just ice cream, if you want one, go to the stall selling it!!! Heed the Health Dept warnings about this type of food and feast your face and your Kids faces on this frivolity? After all, if you want to stuff your kids with 'fat' there will probably be Candy Floss or fried do-nut stalls!!!! Me, I'm just going for the sweet Piccalilly jars!!!! Edited August 9 by Kopek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 3 hours ago, Ringy Rose said: Instead they posted shit on Facebook about how it’s “not how I’d do business” and that it’s some sort of massive conspiracy led by Davisons because they’re scared of competition. tbf they probably are, Gelatory is a significantly better product. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 (edited) 16 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said: Hopefully this sort of stuff won’t be repeated in future years and all the relevant parties make it clear what the deal is. It's clearly only happened because of the cancellation of the Food Festival, which only happened on 21 June and the alternatives offered to disgruntled exhibitors would have been even more recent. It's clear that Gelatory weren't exhibiting in the DEFA tent before that and presumably the problem would have been flagged up earlier if everything hadn't been so rushed. It's also worth making the point that there's a difference between exhibiting and retail selling. If Gelatory had just been handing out free samples and taking orders, that would be one thing. But if they hoped to be able to operate a full operation, selling the full range of products then that would clearly infringe Davidson's agreement, just as if they had turned up in an ice-cream van and started driving all over the showground. And if nothing else the queues would get in the way of other exhibitors hoping to do business in the DEFA tent. Edited August 9 by Roger Mexico Get name right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebushy Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 I think we are missing the point here. DEFA have messed up due to a dearth of civil servants. We need many more to prevent future oversights like this. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 12 minutes ago, littlebushy said: I think we are missing the point here. DEFA have messed up due to a dearth of civil servants. We need many more to prevent future oversights like this. Agreed. We need more who can read. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcousticallyChallenged Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 45 minutes ago, Kopek said: The deal seems quite clear, Davisons paid for an exclusive right to sell Ice Cream with the private enterprise who organise the 'Show', the Defa didn't read the clauses, let a competitor onto their site ans 'whhoooops'. This was despite Galatory knowing the situation regards 'exclusivity' and trying, perhaps, to sneak in the back door??? According to the IOM today article, the exclusivity issue was first raised by Gelatory, twice, and they were assured it was in hand. https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-ice-cream-producer-told-he-cant-attend-royal-manx-show-just-days-before-event-711857 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoopsaa Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 Everything DEFA touches, turns to shit. Every interaction I have with them at work, shows their lack of professionalism. This all goes back to their awful decision to cancel the popular food festival. Still, at least we've got lots of carbon officers now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian rush Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 A fight between Dorling and Davidson I’d pay to see. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred the shred Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 The apologist from DEFA started of the apology with ……It is with a heavy heart…..ffs why not just say there has been a screw up and we are sorry lessons have been learned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesypeas Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I've always been partial to a nice fudge finger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred the shred Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 If Ian Davison is reading this I will still support you and buy your delicious rum and raisin ice cream and the chocolate and vanilla ones for the visiting children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 5 hours ago, ian rush said: A fight between Dorling and Davidson I’d pay to see. My money’s on Davison. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 24 minutes ago, Fred the shred said: If Ian Davison is reading this I will still support you and buy your delicious rum and raisin ice cream and the chocolate and vanilla ones for the visiting children. Too busy sharing Enoch Powell quotes to read any of this I reckon. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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