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FIGHTING THE FAKERS: Compagnie Financière Richemont has become the latest international corporation to join Alibaba’s Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance, which aims to protect intellectual property rights on the e-commerce giant’s platforms.
Alibaba said this week that Richemont is now among 115 members from 16 countries and regions that are part of the AACA. Richemont said it would share its technology, expertise and other information to support the Alliance’s efforts.
Richemont has long been an anti-counterfeit crusader, with a robust in-house legal team that has gone after watch and jewelry counterfeiters and the sales platforms that sell their goods.
Richemont, New Balance, General Motors and McDonald’s, are the latest global brands to join the AACA, according to Alibaba. The alliance’s membership has more than tripled from the original 30 founding brands at its launch in 2017.
Alibaba said it works with brand partners to find and eliminate fakes at their source. In the luxury sector, Alibaba and Louis Vuitton — one of the first members of AACA — conducted an offline investigation that resulted in the seizure in May of approximately $14.4 million worth of counterfeit goods.
“The protection of intellectual property rights requires all stakeholders to work closely together and share their expertise. The AACA will continue its efforts to establish
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PARIS — Ramping up a push for sustainable fabrics, Hennes & Mauritz and Inter Ikea Group have brought in a new industrial partner to scale up production of new wood-based textile fibers.
Store Enso, a traditional wood and paper company that has shifted to the business of renewable materials, joined the H&M and Ikea-owned venture, called TreeToTextile AB, according to a joint statement from the companies.
Fast-fashion companies are scrambling to find new materials to reduce the environmental impact of their businesses while keeping prices low for consumers.
“The new fiber that we have developed is both sustainable and produced at a lower cost,” said Annica Karlsson, chairman of the board of TreeToTextile.
The venture will be owned equally by the three companies as well as Lars Stigsson, a long-time executive in the field of renewable forest products.
TreeToTextile has tested a process to turn forest products into textile fibers and plans to scale up the project at a Stora Enso plant for use by H&M and Ikea.
“It will be exciting to participate in the industrialization of this technology at one of our facilities to meet growing demand,” said Markus Mannström, an executive who heads Stora Enso’s biomaterials division. The company dissolves pulp for textiles from
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