Counterfeit

Safer online shopping: Shopee doubles down on personal care brand protection efforts

31-Jul-2023 By Hui Ling Dang

E-commerce company Shopee adopts a multi-pronged strategy to enhance brand protection and tackle proliferation of counterfeit products on the online marketplace in partnership with FMCG majors P&G and Beiersdorf.

Fight the fakes: Alarm at growing counterfeit cases in India’s cosmetics market

08-Sep-2021 By Guan Yu Lim

According to new data, cosmetics products are among the most counterfeited products in India's FMCG sector.

Countering counterfeits: Swedish skintech brand Foreo wins IP battle in China

18-Nov-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Foreo has won a two-year intellectual property battle in China – a massive breakthrough that gives strong signals to fraudulent skin care companies, its UK and Ireland general manager says.

Counterfeit consumer goods pose detriment to beauty buyers’ health

25-Jul-2017 By Natasha Spencer

Market insight provider, Clarivate Analytics, reveals that 27% of online buyers have been deceived into unknowingly purchasing fake make up and skin care products.    

Korean authorities crack down on counterfeit facial masks

12-Feb-2015 By Michelle Yeomans

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has seized more than 100,000 counterfeit products of the well-known face mask brand; ‘Leaders Insolution’ from a Chinese-owned factory, close to the border of North Korea. 

Fake Chinese cosmetics discovered in Kenya

08-Aug-2013 By Chris BARKER

The Kenyan Anti-Counterfeit Agency (ACA) has intercepted a shipment of fraudulent soaps and beauty products which is believed to have originated from China.

Asian active ingredient market faced with counterfeit challenge

09-Oct-2012 By Andrew MCDOUGALL

Fake cosmetics are still common in Asia-Pacific and are a threat to the regions active ingredients market according to a market researcher.

China ingredients register gives counterfeiters opportunities

27-Jan-2012 By Simon Pitman

Since the 2008 advent of compulsory ingredients registration in China the initiative has made doing business more complex and also opened up the door to counterfeiters, according to Campo Research.

New technology developed to fight counterfeiting

12-Jun-2006 By Simon Pitman

As all the big cosmetic and toiletry brands continue their battle
to stamp out the damaging effects of counterfeit products, a Swiss
company bas developed a new camera phone technology that can help
distinguish fakes from the real...