And This day, a new scandal splashed the owners of the La Polar store, amid the controversy over the alleged purchase of counterfeit sports products by the national retailer, to whom a document from last year was attributed where they recognized the Columbia brand for having acquired non-original garments from a “foreign supplier”.
The recent controversy against the retail company It is just a few days since the company itself launched a television spot where it defends the originality of its products, and in the midst of the -collective- lawsuits filed by Sernac and the response of Under Armour, a North American sportswear giant, to the lawsuit filed by La Polar for “unfair competition”.
More problems for La Polar
The revealing document, which dates from January of last year, was revealed this week on the website of the Diario Financiero df.clwhere it is stated that Columbia “He made a purchase of products through the La Polar website,” where he was able to confirm that said garments did not correspond to his authorship.
That is why the US company required answers from the national retailer for the fraudulent sale of fake products associated with its brand, receiving in response a letter from the Chilean company acknowledging the purchase of fake products “in good faith” and “through a foreign supplier ”.
It was this specific recognition that, explained the national media, made Columbia desist from initiating legal actions against the Chilean company since “La Polar undertook to destroy non-original products; noting that there was a bona fide acquisition from a foreign supplier”. Everything, sealed with the signing of a letter in the Fifth Notary of Santiago, where the national company -through its Legal Affairs manager- acknowledged having bought “the items ‘in good faith’ from a foreign supplier, thinking that they were indeed originals”.