Tag: misleading
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Jetstar and Virgin Australia fined over prices
Jetstar and Virgin Australia airlines have been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars after being found to be misleading consumers. On the 7th of March the Federal Court ordered Jetstar Airways to pay $545,000 and Virgin Australia Airlines to pay $200,000 for breaches of Australian Consumer Law. The way that the two companies were misleading…
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Nurofen fined $1.7 million for misleading consumers
The company that sells Nurofen, Reckitt Benckiser, has been fined $1.7 million by the Federal Court for misleading Australian consumers about their pain relief products. The Nurofen Specific range are advertised to specifically target various types of pain including back, period, migraine and tension headache pain. It was argued that despite the packaging and marketing, the products…