BEIJING — Apple’s iPhone 4 is not officially for sale yet in China and may not be for several months. Neither is the popular iPad touch-screen tablet.
But never mind. Both devices are readily available at a plethora of Chinese electronics malls in Beijing, Shanghai and all the major cities, in what [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Gray Market Diversion'
NEWS: ‘Gray market’ for counterfeit gadgets is red hot in China
August 9th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: china · Counterfeiting · Fake Goods · gray market
NEWS: iPhone 4 Reaches the Gray Market
June 30th, 2010 No Comments
Last week, more than 1 million people snapped up the device in the U.S., Japan and other countries where it went on sale. But some Apple fans in Hong Kong, including visitors from China, couldn’t wait, and in some cases paid more than $3,000 for a gray-market iPhone 4.
There are two types of gray-market iPhone [...]
Tags: Gray Market Diversion · Hong Kong · Iphone · iphone4 · unlocked iphone
News: iPad Hits Hong Kong — Before Global Release
April 9th, 2010 No Comments
Hong Kong, China (CNN) — The iPad may have exclusively launched in the United States on Saturday, but by Monday hundreds were available in the stores of Hong Kong — thanks to the city’s laissez faire retail laws and the work of traders such as Ronald Leung.
On Saturday, Leung and dozens of his friends stood [...]
Tags: Apple · china · gray market · Gray Market Diversion · iPad
News: Fighting a Flood of Counterfeit Tech Products
March 5th, 2010 No Comments
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 [...]
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
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
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
Commentary: Case Clothesed
July 12th, 2010 No Comments
A United States District Court ruled in favor of Fendi this week against the bargain retailer Filene’s Basement, ordering the defendant to pay punitive damages and as well as restrictions on the sale of Fendi products without Fendi’s written permission. They must also turn over all in-stock Fendi items to the fashion house. Fendi also [...]
Tags: counterfeit apparel · Fendi · Luxury Goods