Food truck festival takes food producer Unilever to court

By Janene Pieters on September 7, 2016 - 15:30
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A food truck selling hotdogs in Amsterdam (Photo: Iijjccoo/Wikimedia Commons). (A food truck selling hotdogs in Amsterdam (Photo: Iijjccoo/Wikimedia Commons))

The organizers of food truck festival Rollende Keukens is taking Unilever to court because the food producer secretly sold food at the festival, Igor Sorko of Rollende Keukens said to BNR.

The festival is aimed at small businesses and therefore does not allow participation from large parties, something Unilever knows, Sorko said. According to him, Unilever deliberately started a campaign in whihc it used the Rollende Keukens (Rolling Kitchens in English) trademark without permission.

"We are demanding compensation of 100 thousand euros", Sorko said to the broadcaster.

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