The raid of electronic capacitor companies in Japan this week is a further indication that antitrust enforcers may be pursuing a worldwide cartel involving the small, but ubiquitous product, antitrust attorneys said. “This has the ...
Tags: raid, Electrical, Electronics
ACCC calls to 'reinvigorate' Australia's competition policy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has provided a submission to the Harper Review of competition policy, calling for a 'reinvigoration of Australia's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Among the most crucial issues raised during Euratex General Assembly held on June 4th 2014, special attention was paid to the growth of dyestuffs prices. Alberto Paccanelli, President of EURATEX, stressed forcefully that, “the EU ...
Tags: Textile Sector
With US refineries expanding their capacity to process more domestic light oil in the coming years, the US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday said it expects refinery crude inputs to reach 15.52 million b/d this year and 15.61 ...
Tags: US Refinery, Domestic Production, light oil
According to local media, Mexican authorities raided 11 iron ore yards at the Port of Lazaro Cardenas—one of the country’s largest seaports—after revelations that drug cartels had been exporting ore to China. Over ...
Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced its financial results for the financial year 2012-13, stating that it is planning a capital increase of up to 10 percent, raising €1 billion, as the sale of its US steel mill has now ...
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Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp announced that it reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn in mid-November in connection with a price-fixing cartel. ThyssenKrupp has agreed to pay damages to the German rail operator. According to ...
Tags: Cartel Case, Mineral
German automotive parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is set to sell its South African subsidiary Auto Industrial Brake & Chassis Holding Johannesburg (AIBC) to Investor Trinitas. AIBC contains a forge and a foundry and produces components ...
Tags: Aibc Business, Investor Trinitas
India's second-largest importer of potash Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd. (534742.BY) expects to renegotiate annual import contracts for the key fertilizer ingredient at a discount by this month, a move that is likely to induce other major global ...
Tags: Potash Importer, Import Deals
Pascal Lesoinne, the chairman of the East African Cement Producers Association (EACPA), has denied that a cartel exists in the Tanzanian cement market. His comments arose at a press conference in Dar es Salaam following action by the ...
Tags: Construction, Cement
Dutch dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina has sold its two regional dairy brands Mark Brandenburg and Milchreiter in Germany to ODW Frischprodukte for an undisclosed amount. The transaction, which takes effect from 1 September 2013, ...
Tags: Dairy Brands
Swiss gravity brand iXS is at Eurobike showing off its innovative line of protective gear, helmets and apparel for trail riding and enduro and downhill racing—all of which it will showcase next month at Interbike as iXS enters the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
For centuries, trading with raw material has been an integral part of economic life. Stock exchanges started everywhere and eventually developed into the stock exchanges that exist today, dealing with shares, too. The first stock exchange ...
Tags: Raw Material, Textile
A complaint against Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) lamp compliance scheme Recolight has been dropped by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) without a formal investigation. Manchester-based lamp recycling firm Mercury ...
In the three years following a cartel breakdown, the number of mergers is significantly higher than in the three years preceding the collapse. A recent study conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim has ...
Tags: cartel breakdown