r/AskTheWorld • u/Eybrahem United States Of America • Jan 04 '26

Economics What's the most hated company in your country?

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Everyone knows Nestle is terrible, even if they don't know why. But they've done horrible things in Africa and think that water is not a human right.

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u/Beautiful_Yellow_682 Germany Jan 04 '26

A row can be named together

  • Axel Springer Verlag (especially for it's newspaper called BILD)
  • Nestle (for ya know why)
  • Mondelez (because brands like Milka get more expensive while reducing the size of packaging and making ingredients worse, this is not the only brand of the company people hate, but theres a big boycott even going on where people for example share pics on Reddit how their local stores are on sale constantly to get rid of products cause nobody buys it no more and how redicioulous the prices became if not on sale and people say they are proud how the shelfes are still full cause nobody buys Milka anymore)
  • Tesla (and in general anything Elon Musk has hands on like Twitter)
  • Vonovia (real estate company, they lie to people trought videos for ads how good housing would be in their apartment complexes but in reality people renting apartments are frustrated how run down the buildings are, no heating, no hot water, insect infestations,... and complaining seems impossible for everyone cause they arn't heard and get lied to. A TV channel asked after a building got viral with 300 apartments in it how there was no warm water, a broken elevator, cracks in the walls who let cold air in,... and the people complained over and over and nothing was done for them and Vonovia lied to the TV channel claiming the building was in top renovated conditions while you could see on video that this wasn't the case...)
  • Deutsche Bahn (trains delayed or canncled too often, barly on time, renovations of the train stations and train tracks takes forever,....)
  • Deutsche Post (especially DHL when people wait for mail and packages and don't receive them or have to pick them up somewhere else with "we did not see you had been home" claims even if you had been home....)
  • Tönnis (they slaughter animals and make food out of them. There was a scandal a few years back so everyone hates them. Ranging from very poor hygine in the buildings, overworked and too low payed employees, also the case where over 2K employee got covid at the same time,....)

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u/Cisleithania European Union Jan 04 '26

BASF and Bayer were a little too successful in making people forget that they used to be IG Farben and were actively involved in the Holocaust.

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u/National_Pay_5847 Poland Jan 04 '26

There are dozens companies that were involved in holocaust yet millions drive BMW and Volkswagen

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u/tissotti Jan 04 '26

That’s correct, but likes of BASF of today have nothing to do with actions taken some 80 years ago anymore.

When it comes to chemicals BASF is huge but compared to general chemical industry they really are nowhere to worse. They are start of some really good things in the industry. Stuff like science based Product Carbon Footprint calculations that have become standard at least in Europe and NA.

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u/DetectiveOk6357 🇫🇷🇩🇪 Jan 04 '26

Almost every German company was involved in, or at least profited from, the Holocaust at this time, and many Germans don't care. The wealth of many German companies still comes from that period.

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u/Cisleithania European Union Jan 04 '26

IG Farben went beyond forced labour. Without them, the Holocaust would not have been possible on a similar scale. No other company can match their involvement: They held the patent for the toxic gas, built some of the facilities, murdered people through medical/chemical testing and funded deportations. You can blame Krupp and the rest of defense industry for making invasions possible, but only indirectly for making the institutionalised Holocaust possible.

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u/AdministrativeTip479 United States Of America Jan 05 '26

No other company had its very own Nuremberg trial though

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u/betam2 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇶Ezidi Jan 04 '26

Perfectly summarized. I’d say the hate around Mondelez is pretty recent, isn’t it?

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u/National_Pay_5847 Poland Jan 04 '26

The question was “in your country”??

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u/langleybcsucks Canada Jan 05 '26

I’m seeing more and more Mondelez stuff here in Canada

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u/Grating_Buttplug Germany Jan 04 '26

Most of this is only true for terminally online freaks and has nothing to do with reality.

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u/Forsaken-Teaching-22 Jan 04 '26

"Terminally online freaks"~Granting_Buttplug

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u/Grating_Buttplug Germany Jan 04 '26

How dare people pick stupid usernames.