JEDDAH, 10 March — A can of engine oil may change your life — if it talks to you and declares that you will be participating in the MBC TV game show “Who wants to be a millionaire.”
“If a can of Super GT talks to you when you open it in the center of the lid, it’s your lucky day,” said Alhamrani-Fuchs Petroleum Saudi Arabia’s top executives at a press conference at Jeddah Le Meridien yesterday. Three groups of eight such winners will be announced during the three-month promotion.
The Alhamrani Group has been in the lubricant business since 1979 and became a major player after the construction of its lube oils and grease manufacturing plant in Yanbu in 1988.
“Every time you change your oil, you’ve a chance to strike one of thousands of special talking cans of Fuchs Super GT. When you open a winning can, it will tell you ‘you’ve won.’ You’ll have won either the opportunity to participate in the popular TV show on MBC, or one of more than 22,000 prizes. Every puncture shop producing a winner also wins prizes,” said Mezahem H. Basrawi, Alhamrani-Fuchs’ vice president for marketing and sales.
The offer, which became effective yesterday, will continue up to June 9.
More than 11,000 cans of Super GT motor oil have been fitted with photosensitive devices, which start playing a recording when exposed to light.
Ahsan Rashid, president of the Alhamrani-Fuchs Petroleum Saudi Arabia, described the promotion as the biggest of its kind launched by local oil companies and said that contestants’ winnings during the MBC’s three special episodes would be donated to three charity organizations — Jeddah Center for Autism, a division of Al-Faisaliah Foundation; Al-Emam Association for Charity Services and Cancer Patients Care; and National Home Health Care Foundation. Fuchs will pay contestants 50 percent of their winnings in cash.
