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Fake Lego fools Lego's Chinese Boss!

Geoff Riley

28th January 2017

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China produces around 80% of the world's counterfeit goods by value - despite a 2014 crackdown. These goods now include fake Lego - the Danish group opened a factory there last year and, highlighting one of the risks of doing business in China, it appears even its boss can't tell the real Lego from counterfeit Lego.

More here from the BBC.

Largest Toy Revenue Businesses Globally in 2015
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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