The Danish retailer Normal has reached a settlement with the US beauty giant Victoria’s Secret, which earlier this year took it to court accusing it of selling counterfeit perfumes.
The case has been withdrawn after the two sides reached a settlement, a press spokesperson for the Maritime and Commercial Court in Copenhagen told DR in an email.
“The parties have concluded the case themselves by means of a settlement, and therefore no decision will be made here,” they said.
According to court documents, representatives from Victoria’s Secret sampled a range of perfumes from Normal in stores in Copenhagen and Aarhus on September 26th last year after becoming suspicious that foul play was taking place at Normal.
“The perfumes purchased in Normal’s Danish stores have subsequently been investigated by Victoria’s Secret, and such an investigation has shown that not only illegally parallel-imported goods are sold via Normal’s Danish stores, but also counterfeit (non-original) products are sold,” Victoria’s Secret’s lawyer wrote before the trial.
In total, Victoria’s Secret had, the company said, identified 17 products sold at Normal that were counterfeit. It demanded that Normal be banned from selling and marketing the products throughout the EU.
