Tianjin Consumer Association: Columbia And Other Brands Immediately Stop False Propaganda

According to the wechat official account of Tianjin Consumer Association, a few days ago, Tianjin Consumer Association (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Consumer Association") issued a public advisory, asking "decathlon", "wolf claw", "Lafuma", "Colombia" and "the north" Face (North) "," mammoth "," tantuo "," Fuguiniao "and other brands of stormwear production and sales enterprises to fulfill the obligations of operators, immediately stop the false publicity.

It is reported that the manufacturers and sales enterprises of the above-mentioned brands use other clothing product standards for production, and the products clearly indicate that the products that are not in the name of "stormwear" on the tag carry out sales publicity, and refuse to rectify the supervision of the Consumer Association.

Tianjin Consumer Association believes that the above-mentioned brands are suspected of false publicity. According to the public welfare responsibilities entrusted to the consumer association by the consumer protection law, the Tianjin Consumer Association publicly exhorts the above-mentioned brand production and sales enterprises: immediately stop the false publicity; adhere to the principle of good faith to do a good job of pre-sale investigation and publicity; and actively fulfill the legal obligations of enterprises.

According to public information, "decathlon" comes from France and is a sporting goods retailer. It was founded by Michel rileck in 1976. The first store was opened in enros, a small village near Lille, France. Decathlon (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as decathlon company) was established in 2003. At present, Decathlon has 191 branches, including decathlon Changsha Yanghu branch, Decathlon Guangzhou Zengcheng Square branch, Decathlon Wuhan Jinyintan branch, Decathlon Shenzhen Shiyan Branch, etc.

China Quality News Network noted that decathlon had a number of illegal records before, involving producers and sellers adulterating and adulterating products, passing fake products as real products, inferior products as high-quality products, or passing substandard products as qualified products, publishing illegal advertisements, and other behaviors in violation of clearly marked price regulations.

Four consecutive years punished for the same problem

According to the administrative punishment decision of Shanghai Pudong New Area Market Supervision Bureau (Shanghai Jianpu Office [2020] No. 15202000713), Decathlon company has purchased 168 pairs of women's sports shoes with specifications of 21395648373466 / 235mm from the manufacturer since June 1, 2019. On October 8, 2019, according to the test of Shanghai JianZheng leather quality testing technology center (hereinafter referred to as the "testing center"), the above women's sports shoes were judged as unqualified in the folding resistance test of finished shoes. In addition to 2 pairs of samples purchased by the sampling department, all the other 166 pairs have been sold to the public. It is also found that decathlon has purchased 125 pairs of men's sports shoes with specifications of 2746810 8547441 / 260mm from the manufacturer on June 5, 2019. On October 8, 2019, according to the test center, the above men's sports shoes were judged as unqualified in the folding resistance test of finished shoes. In addition to 2 pairs of samples purchased by sampling inspection department, all other 123 pairs have been sold.

The above-mentioned acts violate the provisions of Article 39 of the product quality law that "sellers shall not adulterate or adulterate their products, nor pass fake products for genuine products, nor pass inferior products as qualified products". On August 13, 2020, Shanghai Pudong New Area Market Supervision Bureau fined decathlon 69729.84 yuan and confiscated 29475.06 yuan of illegal income.

In addition, the administrative punishment decision of Shanghai Pudong New Area Market Supervision Bureau (huzhepuchuzi [2019] No. 152019001389; huzhepuzi (2019) No. 152018012141; huzhepuz [2018] No. 152018010979), and Shanghai Putuo District Market Supervision Bureau's administrative punishment decision (psyz [2017] No. 07021710434) were issued Decathlon was also punished from 2017 to 2019 for "adulteration and adulteration of products by producers and sellers, passing fake products as real products, substandard products as high-quality products, or passing substandard products as qualified products" from 2017 to 2019.