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Posted on 04/12/2008 1:37:20 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
(HONG KONG) - Italian confectioner Ferrero has won a five-year battle against a Chinese firm producing fakes of its famous gold-wrapped Ferrero Rocher chocolates in a ruling hailed by upmarket brands, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
China's Supreme People's Court ordered mainland company Montresor to stop making the nutty chocolates and pay "symbolic" damages of 500,000 yuan (US$71,430), the South China Morning Post reported.
"It is already hard for Italian companies, and foreign ones in general, to get into China, overcome resistance put up against foreign products, build up a commercial network and invest in the country, only to be faced with a strong and invisible enemy such as the counterfeiting industry," the newspaper quoted the Italian company as saying.
Ferrero, which had spent more than US$1 million battling counterfeiters, began legal action against the Chinese firm and its identical "Tresor Dore" chocolates in 2003. The chocolates were priced at one-third of the cost of the genuine product.
There are at least 35 chocolate products that look like Ferrero Rocher in supermarkets in China, according to mainland media reports......
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I prefer their “Kinder Surprise” I wonder why they don’t sell that in the US? :0(
Lead “Surprise” Chocolates ?
They also make Nutella!
Funnily enough, I know the answer to that. The FDA thinks the kids will eat the plastic inside :P
LOL!
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