Hershey Canada Inc (Hershey) has been fined US$3.8 million (A$4.2 million) by the Supreme Court of Justice in Toronto after admitting to its role in a chocolate price-fixing cartel. Hershey admitted that, in 2007, it...
Read More →Further to our previous blog post, the Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill 2013 (Cwlth) received assent on 29 June 2013. The Act now provides the Commonwealth Minister with a power to make regulations to exempt a...
Read More →The ACCC has issued a draft decision proposing to conditionally re-authorise the Australasian alliance between Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand for a further 3 years. The arrangements between the carriers, including alliance and code...
Read More →Misleading warranty claims have resulted in Hewlett-Packard Australia being ordered to pay a $3 million dollar penalty. Between January 2011 and September 2012, HP call centre staff located around the world using internal guidelines and...
Read More →You know it’s an election year when, in the last week Parliament sits before an election, MPs are presented with a swollen legislative agenda. This year, that list includes a raft of private members’ bills...
Read More →The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued proceedings against Scoopon in the Federal Court for allegedly making false and misleading representations to both businesses and consumers. Formed in 2010, Scoopon is one of...
Read More →The European Commission has recently published a draft private damages proposal that, if approved by the European Parliament, would revolutionise follow-on private litigation in European Union (EU) member countries. The proposal has been under consideration...
Read More →The ACCC has released revised Draft Merger Review Process Guidelines (Draft Guidelines) which contain a number of proposed revisions to the Current Guidelines. The changes will not result in any substantive changes to the existing...
Read More →In June, Germany’s competition regulator published new guidelines on the setting of fines for cartel conduct, in response to a recent decision by the Federal Court of Justice. Under German law, a company found to...
Read More →On 28 June 2013, at the Farmers’ Federation 2013 Annual Conference in Melbourne, Marcus Bezzi, Executive General Manager (Enforcement and Compliance) of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), discussed the regulator’s investigation into major...
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