Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Knockoff-Tennis-Shoe-Factory

The business of fake goods is becoming bigger than most of the industries that they replicate. As more and more sneakers are duplicated and sold for a fraction of the retail price. An Italian shopkeeper who unsuspectingly placed a Nike Tempo shoe order with a Chinese factory that took the shoes blueprint and created over 3,000 clones of the original sneaker. 
During the mid-1990′s, factory’s began to emerge specializing in knocking off brands such as adidas, Puma and the most replicated Nike. It’s estimated that for every one shoe created legitimately that two knock-offs are created.

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