7 Mar 2022
STOLI VODKA ANNOUNCES REBRAND FOLLOWING RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE
(CNN) — The maker of Stolichnaya vodka announced a major rebrand Friday. The rebrand came as a direct response to its founder’s “vehement position” against the Putin regime and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The vodka, famously marketed as Russian, will now be sold and marketed simply as Stoli, the company said in a statement.
Stoli Group’s founder, Russian-born billionaire Yuri Shefler, was exiled from that nation in 2000 because of his opposition to Putin. The liquor has long been marketed as Russian vodka, but its production facilities have been in Latvia since that year. Stoli Group is a unit of Luxembourg-based SPI Group.
The company also citedits employees’ desire to take action and to accurately represent the vodka’s Latvian roots.
Earlier this week, Stoli Group announced it would only use Slovakian sources to make sure that none of its ingredients are sourced from Russia.
Article: Stoli vodka announces rebrand following Russian invasion of Ukraine
