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A sweet shop owner has been fined for selling chocolate bars with fake brand labels
Posted 18 August 2023 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Counterfeit Goods|Wales
UPDATES: A sweet shop owner has been fined more than £10,000 after repeatedly selling counterfeit 'Wonka' chocolate bars with unlawful labelling, despite repeated Trading Standards advice and assurances that the products had been withdrawn.
A sweet shop owner who sold counterfeit chocolate bars has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 after being prosecuted by Powys County Council Trading Standards.
Alan Price, trading as Mollies Sweet Shops, applied the ‘Wonka’ logo – a registered trade mark – onto chocolate bar labels which he then supplied to his shops in Newtown, Ludlow, Telford and Chester.
Price also failed...
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