Jack Ma called fake qualitative original things – Forbes Russia

Many of the fakes are now of better quality than the original products, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, June 14, citing the statement of the founder of Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma (№33 in the global ranking of billionaires, according to Forbes, state -. $ 20.5 billion) in Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou

So the Chinese billionaire has reacted to criticism that his company receives profits from imitations. “The problem is that today feykovye products of better quality than the originals, and are cheaper”, – confident businessman. According to him, these things are made “exactly the same factories, of exactly the same materials, but do not use brands»

. In 2015, the French company Kering, which owns brands such as Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, He sued on Alibaba, alleging that it promotes the sale of fakes on its trading platforms. In the new lawsuit the company pointed out that Alibaba encourages selling “fake” sellers, giving them marketing and logistics services on its platform Alibaba.com, AliExpress.com and Taobao.

In April 2015 Alibaba launched the program «Zhongguozhizao» ( «Quality made in China»), which is focused on helping the Chinese factories to develop their own brands and not to use counterfeit. Despite these efforts, Alibaba membership in May of this year, which controls 80% of the online retail market in China, was suspended in International Anticounterfeiting Coalition.

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