‘We have already been told not to buy from Panasonic any longer, as we stopped cooperating with this producer until it proves that it has returned to the honest market practices,’ Evgeniya Deeva, the PR Manager of EuroSet (the retail chain dealing in mobile phones and accessories) in Yekaterinburg reports on the recent refusal of large consumer electronics stores to deal with Panasonic.

‘This is not going to affect the goods we have already displayed for sale, however, since they have been tested,’ Ms Deeva says.