Bike Barn fined $800k over misleading ads

Bike Barn fined $800k over misleading ads
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Feb. 10 (BusinessDesk) - Bike Retail Group and Bikes International, the joint operators of the Bike Barn cycle retailer in New Zealand, have been fined $800,000 in the Auckland District Court today for running an advertising campaign that misled consumers in the way it portrayed discounts.  The two firms pleaded guilty to a combined 18 representative charges over marketing between July 2013 and June 2015 which created misleading impressions about the discounts available to consumers, the Commerce Commissions said in a state...