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Counterfeiters
How Dutch postal service became gateway for fake luxury watches

Counterfeiters are increasingly favouring small parcels to circumvent European customs checks.© Studio Pachamama

Small parcels have become crime gangs' preferred way to deliver fake luxury goods, particularly watches. European postal hubs, led by the Netherlands, are now the nerve centre of this industrial-scale trafficking, testing the capabilities of customs and manufacturers alike.

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Wertheimer family
Chanel executive shareholders' French property empire

The Wertheimer brothers, although respectively resident in the United States and Switzerland, have quietly built up a substantial French real estate portfolio, whose extent Glitz can now reveal.

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LVMH
Who gets to stay in Dior's secret Samaritaine flat?

In addition to the brand's suite above its Avenue Montaigne boutique, Dior has an even more luxurious apartment in the Parisian department store. However, due to the presence of the Cheval Blanc in the same building, Dior is particularly tight-lipped about its existence.

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Fast fashion
Shein comes clean about its lobbying on French legislation

Under the scrutiny of France's lobbying watchdog, the Chinese giant has published a more detailed account of its efforts to influence legal definitions of fast fashion and to resist tighter constraints being imposed on its business activities.

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Match point
Roland Garros serves notice to Printemps

By using images from the tennis tournament on its website and social media accounts, the Qatari-owned department store has struck a nerve with the French Tennis Federation. A Paris court recently agreed it was guilty of free-riding.

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