Dr. Jeff Bray from our Retail\u00a0Management team contributed today to a debate on BBC radio into the impact of counterfeit products on\u00a0UK consumers and retailers.<\/p>\n
The discussion was triggered by the seizure of a large shipment of counterfeit clothing and\u00a0jewellery at Southampton docks at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Dr. Bray identified that it is estimated that some \u00a3100bn of counterfeit trade occurs each year & while some consumers may see an opportunity to\u00a0to find a bargain, counterfeit goods are often of poorer quality and\u00a0possibly even dangerous having not been subjected to the\u00a0legislative controls that legitimate goods will have.<\/p>\n
They evade normal taxes, and can inflict significant damage to the value of the brands that they are copying.\u00a0 While it is big business, efforts to detect and catch the import of\u00a0counterfeit goods has been stepped up in recent years leading to record seizures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Jeff Bray from our Retail\u00a0Management team contributed today to a debate on BBC radio into the impact of counterfeit products on\u00a0UK consumers and retailers. The discussion was triggered by the seizure of a large shipment of counterfeit clothing and\u00a0jewellery at Southampton docks at the weekend. Dr. Bray identified that it is estimated that some… Read more » about Dr. Jeff Bray contributes to a debate on BBC radio into the impact of counterfeit products on UK consumers and retailers.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[388,132,135],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-retail","tag-retail-management","tag-school-of-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}