China Bottler Accuses Newspaper of Making Up Report on Water
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
China's Nongfu Spring Co. filed a complaint with the country's media regulator as part of a long-running dispute with a Beijing newspaper that reported its bottled water is no better than tap water.
Closely held Nongfu said the Beijing Times published as many as 76 fake stories in April and May in a smear campaign, according to a statement on its official microblog. Nongfu sued the paper for defamation in May, seeking 60 millionyuan($9.8 million) in damages, the China Daily newspaper reported today. Nongfu's complaint marks an escalation in a case that led to allegations of corporate infighting while raising concerns over product quality in a country beset by food-safety scandals. The company had argued the Beijing Times stories were instigated by anotherbottler, China Resources C'estbon Food & Beverage Shenzhen Co. C'estbon, a subsidiary of China Resources Holding Co., denied the claims, according to the state-run Global Times newspaper.
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