Name of Carrefour in China
The giant
of the distribution accuses his Chinese competitor, the supermarket chain Anhui
Jiale, of having used his name and his logo between 2002 and 2009.
Fight for a name in China
The French
giant of supermarkets, based in Paris, had to catch himself to believe in it
having led an investigation of market in the city of Fuyang, in the province of
Anhui, in the east of China. There are already 160 Jialefu stores in this city.
Carrefour has many store
in China
Carrefour lodged
a complaint in justice against Anhui Jiale Supermarket Chain Co Ltd and
his(her) subsidiaries to Fuyang, accusing them of having used illegally the
logo " Jialefu ", the version quibbles of "Carrefour”, both in
the name of the company and in its commercial activities. The Popular
Intermediate Court of Hefei agreed to receive the complaint. The hearings in
front of the court, which began August 18th of this year, are always in class.
Jiale,
created in 2002, which changed its name of "Jialefu" in
"Jiale" in August, 2009 forbids to have encroached on the registered
trademark Carrefour, because it changed its name of "Jialefu" in
"Jiale" before the complaint is put down. Jiale also supports that
the Chinese logo of Carrefour, "Jialefu", means literally in Chinese
" happy family " and that it misses that that elements identifiers
which possesses a distinctive trademark.
Since its
arrival on the Chinese continental market in 1995, Carrefour opened 157 stores
and intends to carry the number in 185 by the end of this year.
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