Celebrating the relaunch of the market and signing of the Real Deal Charter at Aylesbury.

Aylesbury celebrated the relaunch of the town centre market with a series of fantastic events, coinciding with the national ‘Love your Local Market Fortnight’ campaign. Continue reading →

Stockport Council, Stockport’s Market Traders and the Teenage Markets have shown their commitment to tackle counterfeit goods by signing up to the ‘Real Deal’.

The ‘Real Deal’ is a Charter for local markets and Council Trading Standards teams to work in partnership to ensure that counterfeit goods are not offered for sale on the market. Continue reading →

The Real Deal initiative is good for Ely’s Markets and shoppers. Ely Markets have signed up to be part of the ‘Real Deal’; an initiative to keep consumers safe and offering genuine, reliable goods.

East Cambridgeshire District Council – the organisers of Ely Markets – are the first in the county to sign the Real Deal national charter on Thursday 20th March confirming their commitment to safe and fair trading. Continue reading →

Celebrating Lurgan Market’s Real Deal status are: (left to right) – Traders Alan Clarke, Waleti Singh and Felix Higgins with Kirsty Pinkerton Market Co-Ordinator CBC, Alderman Hatch Chairman Environmental Services CBC, Mayor of Craigavon Borough Council Cllr Baxter, Executive Board Member NMTF Paddy Lynn, Lorraine Crawford Director of Environmental Services CBC, Cllr O’Connor Vice Chairman Environmental Services CBC and Trader Peter McStravick.

Craigavon Borough Council has become the second local authority in Northern Ireland to sign up a Market to the Real Deal Charter.

Craigavon Borough Council has become the second local authority in Northern Ireland to sign up a Market to the Real Deal Charter.
The Real Deal National Charter keeps traders in counterfeit goods out of markets. Council has signed up Lurgan Market to the charter to demonstrate its commitment to safe and fair trading and Council will do their best to protect both the consumer and legitimate trader. It is actively committed to the sale of quality products at the Market, keeping sellers of fake goods away. Continue reading →

Markets sign up for the ‘Real Deal’ to prevent illegal fakes

The Real Deal Code of Practice is an initiative aimed at reducing counterfeiting offences in markets. On Tuesday 11 February, Blackburn Market and Darwen Market and trading standards signed the charter to make sure all goods sold are legitimate – giving shoppers the peace of mind and confidence that everything they buy is legal and of good quality. Continue reading →

Left to right – Brian Wilson (Stirling Council Trading Standards), Hillary Barker (Stirling Farmers Market), Peter Ross (Ross Markets), Councillor Danny Gibson (Stirling Council), Jim Morrison (Ross Markets), Catherine Ross (Ross Markets) and Bernard Barker (Stirling Farmers Market).

Stirling Council, the operators of the Millhall Sunday Market, and the monthly Stirling Farmers’ Market in the city centre, have signed the Real Deal Charter for Safe Fair Markets. This is part of the national ‘Real Deal’ campaign aimed at keeping sellers of fake goods away from markets and car boot sales. Continue reading →

Spitalfields Traders Market signed up to the Real Deal national charter on Wednesday 13 November reconfirming their commitment to safe and fair trading. Continue reading →

On 23 October 2013, FACT (the Federation Against Copyright Theft) presented special commendation awards to Manchester City Council’s Market Manager, Tony Sproston, and Trading Standards Officer, Nicola Bray. The awards were made in recognition of exemplary standards in tackling intellectual property crime.

In November 2009, Manchester City Council was the first local authority in the UK to introduce the Real Deal Charter at all the city’s council-run markets and it is now part of the city’s licence agreement for all new market applications.

Heather Thurlaway, Operations Manager Markets, and David Ellerington, Trading Standards Team Manager, celebrate the Charter signing with a large Real Deal cake, specially baked for the occasion by The French Oven and cupcakes by Pet Lamb Patisserie ˆ both are stalls in the Grainger Market.

The risks posed to consumers by counterfeit goods are always more prevalent at Christmas when people step out in search of a bargain. But consumers can be left seriously out of pocket when it turns out that the gift they have bought is either fake, does not work, or in some cases a danger to their health. But at Newcastle’s Grainger Market that risk has been eliminated after it was officially declared a fake goods free zone. Continue reading →

Pictured signing the Real Deal charter are (left) Market Place chief executive, Nick Rhodes, and Simon Legg of Brent and Harrow Trading Standards service

Brent & Harrow Trading Standards has entered an innovative partnership with Market Place (Wembley Park) Ltd, by signing the Real Deal charter to ensure the new programme of markets planned at Wembley Park operate to the highest standards and are free from fake goods.

By signing up to Real Deal, Market Place has committed itself to working with the Trading Standards Service to comply with the scheme to ensure consumers shopping at any of their markets or events do so with the confidence that they will only be buying genuine goods. Continue reading →