Retailers object to attack on sale of own brands in unfair competition bill

The President has received a request, form a retailers' association, to veto or to direct to the Constitutional Tribunal the amendment to the bill on fighting unfair competition. The amendment seeks to limit sales of own brand products in discount shops. The organizations representing the interests of retail networks and producers warn that this regulation may lead many small and medium size companies, working with retail networks, into bankruptcy. The share of goods sold by retail networks under their own brand name ranges from 5% to 100%. In hypermarket networks like Real or Tesco it ranges from 6% to 20%, the Biedronka network has over 60%, while Leader Price produces 90% of it own brands. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 6) P.W.