日本名店出售冒牌飾物

Recently the NHK News on-line reported the following:

偽ブランド品 １６０点以上販売か

1月22日 17時52分

国内の５つの大手デパートの催し物の売り場などで、アメリカの人気ブランドの偽物の疑いがあるブレスレットが、１６０点以上顧客に販売されていたことが関係者への取材で分かりました。

各デパートは２２日、ホームページなどで謝罪し商品を回収する手続きを始めました。
大手デパートで偽物の疑いのある商品が販売されたことが明らかになるのは極めて異例です。

偽ブランドの疑いのある商品が販売されていたのは、東京の西武池袋本店と京王百貨店新宿店、名古屋の松坂屋名古屋店、大阪の大丸梅田店、それに伊勢丹の千葉県松戸市にある松戸店など５つのデパートの８つの店舗です。
デパート各社や関係者によりますと、これらの店舗では去年２月から先月にかけてアメリカの人気ブランド、「ＣＨＡＮ ＬＵＵ（チャンルー）」のブレスレットを催し物の売り場などで販売しましたが、偽ブランド品の排除活動をしている社団法人の「ユニオン・デ・ファブリカン」が、先月寄せられた情報をもとに調査したところ、西武池袋本店で販売中の商品が偽物と確認されたということです。本物は、革ひもにトルコ石があしらわれていますが、偽物は本物より作りが粗く、商品に付いているカードも偽物は色が濃いといった特徴があるということです。
文字の形も微妙に違うように見えます。
各デパートでは同じブランド名のブレスレットを８０００円から２万円ほどで合わせて１６０個以上販売したということです。
いずれも静岡県に本社を置くアクセサリー販売会社、「マルヤマ商会」が各デパートと契約を結んで催し物の売り場などで販売したもので、関係者によりますと、マルヤマ商会が商品を仕入れた都内の業者とは現在、連絡が取れなくなっているということで、マルヤマ商会も偽物の疑いがあることを認めています。
各デパートは、同じブランドの正規代理店が扱う商品以外の販売をすでに中止し、２２日午後、ホームページなどで謝罪し、商品を回収する手続きを始めました。
大手デパートで偽物の疑いがある商品が販売されていたことが明らかになるのは、極めて異例です。

(試譯文)

In a press report based on people who had connections with the matter, it was disclosed that 160 or more pieces of bracelet which were suspected to be an imitation of a U.S. popular brand were sold to customers at a sales promotion event in five major company department stores etc. in the country.

On the 22nd individual departments store began the procedure to apologize this in their homepage etc. and to recall the goods.

It was very exceptional to find that goods which were suspected of imitation were sold at major company department stores.

It was in eight stores of five department stores, such as the Seibu Ikebukuro head office in Tokyo, the Keio Dept Store’s Shinjuku store, the Matsuzakaya Nagoya store in Nagoya, the Daimaru Umeda store in Osaka, and Isetan’s Matsudo store in Matsudo-city Chiba that goods suspected to be of a fake brand were sold.

According to the individual department store or the people concerned, the bracelet was the U.S. popular brand the "CHAN LUU", sold in these stores at the promotional sales event etc. between February last year and last month. It was said that when the "Union des Fabricants", a corporation which could perform activities of checking for counterfeit designer-brand goods conducted an investigation based on the information received last month, the goods sold in the Seibu Ikebukuro head office were confirmed to be a counterfeit. Although the leather strip was treated with the turquoise as the genuine goods, it was said that the craftsmanship of the imitation was coarser than the genuine one, and the card attached to imitation goods also had a deeper color feature.

The form of the characters also seemed to be delicately different.

It was said that the bracelet of the same brand name was sold at about 8000 yen to 20,000 yen, and in total 160 or more pieces were sold at individual department stores. 

All the accessories selling company had a head office in Shizuoka Prefecture; the "Maruyama Company" signed a contract with individual department stores, and all sold at the promotional event etc. According to the people concerned, it was admitted that a contractor in the metropolitan area whom the Maruyama Company had bought in the goods could not be contacted now and the Maruyama Company also admitted to suspect that these were imitation goods.

All department stores already stopped the sale of the goods other than those from the official agency of the same brand. In the afternoon of the 22nd they made apology at the homepage etc. and began the goods recall procedures.

It was very exceptional to see incidents that goods suspected of being an imitation were sold at major company department stores.

     I agree that it is a very exceptional incident. I hope this matter would not affect the good image of the companies.