Shartlon understands that your brand communicates your company’s unique identity.
If your brand suffers tarnishing from events that include piracy, fraud and counterfeit, these can easily cause a damaging blow to your company’s reputation.
With this in mind, Shartlon offers brand protecting service whose aim is to guard and maintain the quality and reputation of your brand.
Below are some of the brand protection services we provide to our clients:
Verification of Counterfeits (VC)
Counterfeits can tarnish a brand’s image and reputation. Today, fraudsters use sophisticated trickery to perpetuate this vice. Lucky for you Shartlon is always one step ahead. Our team of experts will help in investigating and verifying all counterfeit claims and ensure that any counterfeit is discovered and removed from the market in the shortest time possible.
Anti-Piracy Investigations (API)
Piracy inflicts injurious effects on businesses dealing in the production of music, movies and software. At Shartlon, our team of experts understands the importance of safeguarding your company’s bottom line. The experts will help in tracking down perpetrators and gathering evidence ensuring that the offenders get to answer for their crimes.
Test Purchase Programs (TPP)
Our investigators use ‘Test Purchase Programs’ to collect evidence of counterfeits from retail outlets. To accomplish this, the investigators pose as consumers and collect hard evidence which can be adduced in court as evidence against the suspected perpetrators.
Grey Market Investigations (GMI)
Grey market goods comprise of those branded products which are imported through backdoor or unauthorized channels.
These products have a huge negative effect on the profits of legitimate companies.
At Shartlon, we understand this and we will engage our team of investigators to gather intelligence and ensure that you are sufficiently armed with ammunition needed to arrest grey market activities.
Intellectual Property & Copyright Infringement
Aside from protecting your physical assets, you need to consider safeguarding your copyrights and intellectual property.
In some cases, protecting these intangible assets plays a critical role in ensuring that your business enjoys long term success and viability.
Shartlon is strategically positioned to leverage the use of the latest software systems to guard your intellectual property and copyrights against infringements.