UNITED STATES, April 30, 2003: An American company has apologized for introducing sandals emblazoned with Ganesha images and has promised to withdraw them from stores immediately. The sandals were cause for concern among Hindus in the U.S. and hundreds wrote in to the website of IndiaCause, an activist organization, to protest against American Eagles, the firm that produced the sandals. An IndiaCause release said the company has apologized for the sandals. “We will remove these flip-flop shoes from our stores in order to maintain the good will and our customer relations with the Hindu community,” Neil Bulman, Jr., Vice President and General Counsel of American Eagles, wrote in a letter to the organization.
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