Edward Dimmler dips a cotton swab in acetone and rubs it on the surface of a computer chip that was ostensibly manufactured by Samsung. The white tip turns black—the first clue that the part may be fake. Dimmler, director of warehouse operations at electronics distributor PCX, then inspects the chip under a microscope and sees [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Gray Market Diversion'
News: Fighting a Flood of Counterfeit Tech Products
March 5th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement · anti-counterfeiting · Brand Protection · Counterfeit Electronics · Gray Market Diversion
News: EU firms pilot Swedish scheme to stop fake drugs
October 26th, 2009 No Comments
LONDON – European drugmakers said on Tuesday they were piloting an anti-counterfeit coding system in Sweden in a bid to end the risk of fake medicines entering the supply chain.
Drug companies are increasingly concerned about bogus drugs getting into the legitimate distribution system, potentially posing serious health hazards and undermining the reputation of their products.
The [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · counterfeit drugs · EFPIA · European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations · parallel trade · Supply Chain Management · Sweden
News: AGMA, Pricewaterhouse Coopers Expose Multi-Billion Dollar threat to Technology Industry: Warranty and Service Abuse
October 22nd, 2009 No Comments
HOUSTON, TX — The Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement (AGMA), a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the gray marketing and counterfeiting of branded goods around the globe, today announced that it has teamed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), the assurance, tax and advisory services firm, to issue a white paper titled “Service Blues: Effectively [...]
Tags: AGMA · Counterfeiting · gray market · PricewaterhouseCoopers · warranty and service abuse
News: EU anti-counterfeiting proposals “cannot ignore” internet
October 8th, 2009 No Comments
The European Commission’s proposed directive to clamp down on counterfeit medicines “cannot ignore” the reality that a “huge percentage” of counterfeits are channelled through the internet, says the new rapporteur for the proposal in Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).
Maria Matias was speaking at a meeting in Parliament on Making [...]
Tags: Authentication · counterfeit drugs · EU · European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations · internet pharmacies · pharmaceuticals · supply chain
Luxury Brands Find E-Commerce At Last
March 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Based on the current economic climate, it is not surprising that we are beginning to see luxury brands embrace the e-commerce route. Many will say that it’s about time that luxe products are available online. While Mr. Lagerfeld’s point in this article is well put, I, for one, would be more apt to make [...]
Tags: e-commerce · Luxury Goods
News: EMI Music Publishing Signs Groundbreaking Deal to Represent the Works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 18th, 2009 1 Comment
New York, 17 March 2009 – EMI Music Publishing, the world’s leading popular music publisher, has reached an agreement to represent the intellectual property of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. it was announced today.
Under the terms of the long-term global deal with The King Estate, EMI Music Publishing will be charged with representing Dr. King’s [...]
Tags: EMI Music Publishing · Intellectual Properties Managment ("IPM") · Martin Luther King · MLK licensing · The King Estate
News: Karl Lagerfeld Discusses Luxury Internet Sales
February 18th, 2009 1 Comment
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes met yesterday to discuss a growing problem for the European fashion industry: controlling who sells luxury products in the Internet age.
Currently European competition rules say that manufacturers such as Parisian fashion house Chanel can impose restrictions on what distribution networks sell their goods. In [...]
Tags: Fashion
Press Release: OpSec Study Shows the Effectiveness of Integrating Social Media and E-Commerce Monitoring in Combating Unauthorized and Counterfeit Online Sales
October 14th, 2009 No Comments
Internet intelligence delivers strategic insights to guide product launch and distribution of consumer electronics
BOSTON–OpSec Security, Inc., the global leader in anti-counterfeiting and brand protection, conducted a study to identify the impact of Internet trading platforms and social media web forums on the market launch and distribution of consumer electronics products. By monitoring popular B2C auctions, [...]
Tags: amazon · Brand Protection · e-commerce monitoring · e-readers · Ebay · gray market · Kindle · online counterfeiting · OpSec Security · social media · supply chain · trade boards