Petrol chain wins ‘fake’ Coke injunction
Written on January 10, 2012 – 7:37 pm | by Michael Harris
The United Petroleum chain of service stations has won an injunction banning Today Tonight from airing a story which claims United is tricking customers by selling fake Coca-Cola.
The Victorian Supreme Court agreed to United’s legal bid to ban the show after hearing evidence that Seven’s Today Tonight had conducted an investigation of a number of its stores, including filming one customer with a hidden camera.
In ads on its website Today Tonight claimed that: ”consumers are being tricked into buying fake foreign products that are infiltrating our stores by appearing exactly the same as the big brands”.
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But United’s national merchandise manager, Mark Harris, said in an affidavit that the chain had clearly advised Today Tonight that it did not sell any fake or inferior Coke products.
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