she he has purchased. Today many consumers are duped into believing that the products they are buying are genuine when in reality they are actually fake. Types of spurious goods. Spurious goods are of two types – one: counterfeit products and two: pass-off products. Counterfeit products are fake products that bear identical name of product/ packaging/graphics/colour scheme and even same name and address as the genuine manufacturer. Someone produces these to look exactly like real products other
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opening line to “Counterfeit Culture‚” a documentary about how counterfeit items enter the market‚ the kinds of goods normally purchased‚ and how it not only affects the global economy‚ but our own personal lives as well. In the last twenty years‚ counterfeit goods have exploded. This is because the way consumers do business has changed. Globalization has become a major influence on all markets and goods can now easily flow from one country to another‚ real and counterfeit. Counterfeit goods affect
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“anyway‚ counterfeiting is a harmless activity!” But what if the airplane you were about to board had been repaired with counterfeit airplane parts: How smart would you feel then? Modern counterfeiters will copy or recycle just about anything as long as there is a profit to be made‚ and they are becoming increasingly adept at doing so. The last laugh is on the consumer. Counterfeit or pirated products may seem temptingly cheap‚ but they are neither a small nor a harmless business. Did you know that
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of the Fast Fashion Business Model and Imposed Quick Response Challenges for Chinese Fabric Manufacturers Jennie Hope Peterson‚ Jimmy Chang‚ Yiu-Hing Wong‚ and Carl A. Lawrence Abstract This chapter explores and develops fast fashion in the current retailing industry and its impacts on how the Chinese textile manufacturing industry has adjusted to remain competitive. Fast fashion evolved at the turn of the twenty-first century into a business approach characterized by fresh fashions‚ shorter life
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the 1920’s‚ a teacher’s salary at $5‚174 became more then the average salary at $4‚743. This era was greatly influenced by television and like the 1920’s‚ people moved away from conservative thinking and onto new revolutionary ways of thinking. Fashion in the 1920’s for men was much like it was in the early teens. The sacque suite was appropriate day dress and only natural colored shirts were worn with these suits. Shaped silks ties and bowler hats completed this outfit. Knickerbockers‚ also known
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Fast is Never Free: Critical Analysis of Fast Fashion and its condition of Freedom vs. Repression of Freedom Alejandra Carrillo-Muñoz A&D 603 October 22‚ 2012 Abstract Known to be a revolutionizing model for the ability of freedom that promotes artistic novelty while fulfilling function‚ fashion has certainly managed to establish some of those intents. In other ways‚ it has juxtaposed those intents and has functioned against its proposals. More specifically‚ what began as a utilitarian
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We analyze a two-country model of trade in both legitimate and counterfeit products. Domestic firms own trademarks and establish reputations for delivering high-quality products in a steady-state equilibrium. Foreign suppliers export legitimate low-quality merchandise and counterfeits of domestic brand-name goods. Heterogeneous home consumers either purchase low-quality imports or buy brand-name products‚ rationally expecting some degree of counterfeiting of the latter. We characterize a counterfeiting
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ROLE OF NAFDAC IN AIRFREIGHTING IN NIGERIA PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR DORA N. AKUNYILI (OFR) DIRECTOR-GENERAL (NAFDAC) AT A ONE-DAY SEMINAR ON OPTIMISING OPPORTUNITIES FOR AIRFREIGHT IN NIGERIA ORGANISED BY NIGERIAN SHIPPERS’ COUNCIL 24TH AUGUST 2006 INTRODUCTION: It gives me great pleasure to be invited to present a paper at this one day sensitization seminar with Theme Optimizing opportunities in the Airfreight industry‚ organized by the Nigerian Shippers Council for importers/exporters‚ operators
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global trends. On the other hand‚ there is a trend that is assuming an alarming dimension borne out of greed and desire for quick money. Manufacturing and distribution of counterfeit‚ substandard or “fake” medicine is a monster which must be tamed. According to (Black Law Dictionary‚ cited in Akunyili‚ 2010‚ p.15) the term counterfeit drug may be used to describe a drug produced by an entity other than the genuine manufacturer‚ by copying or imitating an original product without authority or right‚
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McGill University 10 BATTLE OF THE BRANDS Patek Philippe vs. Rolex Gizem Ozdemir‚ Cynthia Younes‚ Martin Lemay‚ Alex Beauchesne Table of Contents Introduction to the Watch Industry 3 Customer and Competitor Analysis 4 PATEK PHILIPPE 5 History of Patek Philippe 5 Patek Philippe’s Strategy 6 SWOT Analysis 8 Marketing Mix 9 ROLEX 11 History of the Brand 11 Scope of the Brand 12 SWOT Analysis 12 Marketing Mix 14 Results – Patek Philippe 15 Recommendations
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