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A deadline to submit initial offers passed on Thursday, with a final deal expected to close mid-April.
As if Covid-19 hasn’t already done enough damage to the fashion industry, intellectual property experts are now warning that it has also left the door open for counterfeit products to proliferate at an unprecedented pace.
As if Covid-19 hasn’t already done enough damage to the fashion industry, intellectual property experts are now warning that it has also left the door open for counterfeit products to proliferate at an unprecedented pace.
The Buy Safe America Coalition aims to back legislation that would require digital marketplaces to verify information about third-party merchants.
Proposed legislation would extend to design patents the same protections given copyrighted and trademarked goods.
Direct-to-consumer brands like Allbirds, Glossier and Rothy’s are battling counterfeiters and copycats. These startups now face a problem even big-budgeted luxury brands can't fix.
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Sophisticated counterfeits and a culture of hassle-free returns have created an expensive problem for retailers.
The lawsuit accused the e-commerce giant of concealing a regulatory warning about its ability to stop counterfeiting two months before its $25 billion IPO in 2014.
Sophisticated Italian counterfeiters are damaging the billion-dollar streetwear juggernaut’s brand reputation and may be slowing its post-Carlyle growth plans. In a rare interview, Supreme’s press-shy founder James Jebbia speaks exclusively to BoF.
Sophisticated Italian counterfeiters are damaging the billion-dollar streetwear juggernaut’s brand reputation and may be slowing its post-Carlyle growth plans. In a rare interview, Supreme’s press-shy founder James Jebbia speaks exclusively to BoF.
The case highlights the challenge faced by brands in China, whose products run the risk of being copied.
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Counterfeiters can take advantage of Amazon’s system which is designed to let merchants post products quickly and easily after setting up accounts online.
The Chinese government is finally ready to crack down on the country’s black and grey luxury market and better regulate its booming e-commerce sector.
Executives at two of the biggest victims of counterfeiting praised Beijing’s efforts to crack down on intellectual property abuses.
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A deadline to submit initial offers passed on Thursday, with a final deal expected to close mid-April.
Shoppers “get bored very quickly,” Régis Schultz, JD Sports’ CEO, said.
British sportswear retailer JD Sports said trading conditions remained challenging after its like-for-like sales dropped in January, resulting in fourth-quarter growth of just 0.1 percent.
Luxury watchmaker Favre Leuba plans to unveil more than two dozen timepieces later this year, priced as much as 24,000 Swiss francs ($26,489), as part of a brand relaunch that seeks to expand the Swiss pioneer’s appeal beyond its majority Indian consumer base.
L Catterton, backed by French luxury group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, is launching a new vehicle to invest in Indian consumer-sector companies as it increases the focus on the fastest-growing major economy in the world.
The online market for secondhand apparel hit $20 billion in the US in 2023 and is expected to more than double over the next five years, according to a new report from ThredUp and Global Data.
The Swedish retailer recorded operating profit of 2.08 billion Swedish krona ($196 million), with operating margin more than doubling from the year before.
Major UK fast fashion retailers will change the way they promote the environmental credentials of their clothes after being accused of greenwashing by a UK watchdog.