Hermes off the hook after off-season sale

 

14:37 LIMASSOL District court has acquitted Hermes department stores from the charge of selling discount goods outside of the legal sales period.

This was the second acquittal for the Shacolas Group subsidiary company, confirming a July 2011 court decision.

Both decisions accept the legal position of the company that forbidding sales outside of sales periods violates the EU directive 2005/29/EC.

In the past two years, several high street stores in the group, including Debenhams, Next and Peacocks have begun sales before the government’s decreed sales period, typically around the beginning of the second week in January.

 

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