Thousands of dangerous and counterfeit toys were seized from Smartway Imports in who pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to unsafe toys. A Salford-based company has been fined almost £25,000 for selling fake and counterfeit ...
Entertainment One has been working closely with Brazilian custom officers to intercept fake goods at three separate ports across the country. An estimated one million counterfeit Peppa Pig toys have been seized by custom officers across ...
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7,000 knock-off Super Mario toys and 2,000 fake Disney Frozen Loom Band sets were intercepted. A haul of fake and dangerous toys worth £500,000 has been stopped from entering the Christmas market, thanks to trading Standards ...
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Counterfeit toys with a domestic retail value (had they been genuine) of €19,520,878 were seized by customs at the EU's external borders in 2012. Toys (excluding games/electronic games) accounted for 4.10% of all articles (1,637,941) ...
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Trading Standards says that sharing of intelligence is key to fighting fakes, as MEP gets behind initiative. A MEMBER of European Parliament is supporting ToyNews’ Fight the Fakes campaign for the prevention of counterfeit toys. ...
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Some 2.12 million counterfeit toys were seized in Europe in 2011 - a whopping 15 per cent of which were confiscated in Romania. In fact, over half of all counterfeit toys seized in Europe (57.11 per cent) were detained in five countries ...
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Fresh data shows European customs confiscated 2.1 million counterfeit toys in 2011 – a drop of 68 per cent. Comparatively, 6.7 million were seized in 2010. However, this doesn’t mean more fake toys passed by undetected, nor ...
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ToyNews has launched a Fight the Fakes campaign to help prevent counterfeit toys hitting the market. We will work with the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), a government-funded initiative run by the City of London Police, the ...