Trading Standards Officers from North Yorkshire County Council set up a ‘pop-up’ stall at Selby Market displaying a wide range of fake goods to raise shoppers’ awareness of the harm caused by the trade in counterfeit goods. The initiative was organised with Selby Market, which recently signed the Real Deal Charter to demonstrate its commitment to fake-free shopping. The stall created a great deal of interest among shoppers and traders at the market and was considered a great success by the trading standards officers manning the stall.
Category Archives: Real Deal News
Partnership Work at Camden
The IPO has produced a superb, short film to celebrate the success of a partnership project between the National Markets Group for IP Protection and Camden Trading Standards to deliver fake-free market shopping.
https://youtu.be/BMZ3MEGdcyI
Perth & Kinross Council and Errol Sunday Market sign Real Deal Charter
Local markets are a real asset to communities and a popular national tradition in the UK. They bring social and economic benefits to communities, providing bargains for shoppers, lively attractions for families and visitors, and an environment for legitimate, local businesses to trade successfully. Continue reading
North Wales’ Markets Welcome Real Deal
Launch of the Real Deal North Wales initiative at the Butcher’s Market in Wrexham on 19 October 2015
A new initiative aiming to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods in markets across North Wales has been launched.
In the first joint-initiative of its kind in the UK, six neighbouring local authorities across North Wales have joined forces to support the region’s local markets and keep them fake-free by simultaneously introducing the Real Deal charter at 16 markets.
The project has been launched now to enable Real Deal market procedures and advice for traders to be in place in the run-up to the busy Christmas shopping season. Continue reading
Real Deal Selby is first in North Yorkshire
Real Deal Award for NABMA
At the NABMA annual conference in a Harrogate, the organisation’s Chief Executive, Graham Wilson, was presented with the ‘Real Deal Award’. This is the inaugural award by the National Markets Group for IP Protection in recognition of support and promotion of the Real Deal initiative. Continue reading
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute’s Business Companion
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute’s Business Companion provides online information for businesses and individuals about trading standards and consumer protection legislation, including useful sections on intellectual property and car boot sales.
www.businesscompanion.info
Black Isle Show Will be The Real Deal
Visitors to the Black Isle Show on the 5th and 6th August will be assured of getting the Real Deal after The Highland Council and the Black Isle Farmers Society made a commitment to keep them free of fake goods.
Pictured after signing up to the Real Deal charter are L to R – Rod MacKenzie, Secretary and Treasurer of the Black Isle Show Farmers Society; Andrew Cameron Junior Vice President; George MacIver, Vice President; President of the Black Isle Farmers Society Richard MacLennan; Chair of the Council’s Planning, Development & Infrastructure Committee, Cllr Audrey Sinclair and Trading Standards Manager Gordon Robb.
Organisations throughout the UK have signed up to the Real Deal markets’ charter, a nationwide initiative that encourages local authority Trading Standards and market operators to work closely together and share information so that local markets, car boot sales remain free from counterfeit goods and are a safe environment in which to shop and trade. The agreement is the first of its kind in the Highlands and the furthest North for the Real Deal Scheme. Continue reading
National Markets Group launches inaugural awards to recognise achievements in tackling IP crime
Pictured (left to right): Sharon Penketh, National Trading Standards e-Crime Team; Graham Mogg, Chair of the National Markets Group; Martin Harland and David Hunt of Camden Council Trading Standards.
At the Chartered Institute of Trading Standards conference in Bournemouth last week (Wed 1 July 2015), Leon Livermore, CEO of the CTSI presented the inaugural National Markets Group Awards.
The National Markets Group for IP Protection (NMG), which consists of representatives from industry, enforcement and government, works in partnership to reduce the availability of counterfeit and pirated goods at markets, car boot sales and social media platforms such as Facebook. Continue reading
National Markets Group and National Trading Standards eCrime Team Join Forces
National Markets Group and National Trading Standards eCrime Team Join Forces to launch the biggest enforcement operation ever seen in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to combat piracy on social media
Read more www.tradingstandardsecrime.org.uk