Source: Sify News

http://sify.com/news/offbeat/fullstory.php?id=13048912&vsv=39

On April 30, 2003 Sify News reported that "An American company has apologised for introducing sandals emblazoned with Ganesha images and has promised to withdraw them from stores immediately... The sandals had raised a furore among Indians in the US and hundreds wrote in to the website of IndiaCause, an activist organisation, to protest against American Eagles, the firm that produced the sandals."