Cosmetics & Personal Care

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  Counterfeit goods worth a massive £500m seized in UK

  Fake designer clothing, shoes, perfume and other goods worth £500m have been seized by police in Manchester, UK.

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  Cultural backgrounds influence counterfeit attitudes; study

  Researchers examine counterfeit dominance, and how it affects Anglo-American and Asian attitudes to luxury brands.

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  Markem-Imaje grows in authentication again with Blue Bite buy

  Deal comes 18 months after Markem-Imaje agreed to buy serialization and authentication specialist Systech.

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  OECD says fakes make up 2.5 per cent of global trade

  Update to the highly cited figures show that the trade in counterfeit/pirated goods "has remained significant."

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  Counterfeit perfume production site busted in Italy

  The organised criminal gang is estimated to have made around €15,000 per month from the illegal activity.

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  Russia's Chestny ZNAK offers prizes for scanning codes

  Russia tries to boost scanning rates for its product coding system by offering a 1m-rouble jackpot to consumers.

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