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Over two days in June, an investigator with Coach Inc. entered 13 stores overlooking the beach and bought counterfeit bags, wallets and other items for prices ranging from $20 to $75, according to lawsuits filed by Coach in federal court in Baltimore this week. Authentic Coach handbags in a similar style are sold for more than $300, according to the company's website.

In some cases, the investigator said the shops had dozens of imitation Coach products for sale. And, in at least one instance, a shop employee admitted to the undercover investigator that the items were fake, according to the lawsuits.

"To those who traffic in counterfeit goods the message is simple: Coach is looking for you and, once found, will seek the maximum penalties available, including substantial monetary payments," said Nancy Axilrod, associate general counsel for Coach, in an email to The Baltimore Sun.
Coach and other big-name brands — from Chanel to Louis Vuitton — routinely work with federal and local law enforcement to fight a multibillion-dollar trade in counterfeit goods, many of which originate from China through organized crime networks.

But the fight against counterfeit goods has been complicated in recent years by sellers of illicit products moving online and beyond the traditional hubs of black market knockoffs in New York and Los Angeles to other foot traffic-heavy locales like Ocean City, experts said.

In at least one case this year, Coach sued a municipality — Chicago — for not doing enough to crack down on street vendors selling counterfeit company products at a city-run public market.

According to the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, a nonprofit based in Washington, the worldwide trade in counterfeit goods amounts to about $600 billion a year. In the U.S. alone last year, Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized $260 million worth of counterfeit goods.

The top categories of seized counterfeit goods included footwear, consumer electronics, apparel, computer hardware, pharmaceuticals, toys and electronic games, according to the federal agencies.

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The New York-based company is actively fighting the illegal trade of knockoffs in lawsuits against stores across the country, according to federal court records. So far, Coach has filed about 250 lawsuits and has secured court judgments and settlements for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, according to Coach's Axilrod.

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Looking ahead, however, PPR's Pinault said European's luxury appetite remained vulnerable to future tax hikes aimed at plugging budget holes and paying down debt.

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"Top line trends in luxury (of PPR) are generally less impressive than what some competitors have already disclosed," Kepler analysts said in a note.

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PPR owns around 70 percent of German sports goods company Puma, which posted first-half numbers below market expectations on Thursday and warned it might miss its full-year earnings target due to litigation in Spain.

PPR generated a first-half recurring operating profit (earnings before interest and tax) of 708 million euros, above the 648 million euro average in a Reuters poll of 12 analysts.

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