The European Commission announced on Monday 31 July that it had expressed concerns in a preliminary notice to the firms concerned that the French fashion house Pierre Cardin and its licensee, the German clothing manufacturer Ahlers, may have infringed EU antitrust rules by restricting cross-border sales of Pierre Cardin licensed clothing and sales of these products to specific customers.
On 22 June 2021, the Commission carried out unannounced inspections of the clothing manufacturing and...