Supermarket chain Tesco said today it is "delighted" with an interim court finding in Europe it says backs its policy of selling cut-price Levi products against the manufacturer's wishes.
Tesco said the advocate-general, an adviser to Luxembourg's European Court of Justice, had found it was a matter for national courts. The ruling is not binding but the interim view is nearly always reflected in the final court verdict due later this year.
Levi Strauss has been battling for two-and-a-half years to stop Tesco sourcing designer products from countries outside the EU and then re-selling them at knockdown prices.