Boohoo fined €2.3m by French watchdog over deceptive discounts
by Sarah Butler from on (#77TFA)
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The British online fashion seller Boohoo has been fined 2.3m (2m) by France's consumer watchdog for deceptive practices such as offering fake discounts.
The Manchester-based firm, whose parent company renamed itself Debenhams Group last year, was found to have exaggerated the discounts it was offering, giving shoppers a false impression of the savings they were making, according to the directorate-general for competition, consumer affairs and fraud control.
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