The German Federal Cartel Office believes no significant improvement has occurred in the underlying conditions for log marketing in the German states of North-Rhine Westphalia, Thuringia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Baden-Württemberg. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
TWO members of the glass cartel — Glass South Africa and National Glass Distributors — have settled with the Competition Commission and had their settlement agreements confirmed on Thursday. The Competition Tribunal in June ...
Tags: Construction glass, Glass Cartel
Germany's Federal Cartel Office Bundeskartellamt has announced the imposition of further fines amounting to almost €100 million on eight rail companies in a case involving price fixing for train track rails, with Essen-based ...
Tags: Rail Cartel Case, Cartel Office
Steinhoff International announced the takeover of the Kika/Leiner Group at the end of June. Steinhoff reports that the relevant contracts have already been signed. Dr Herbert Koch, chairman of Kika/Leiner's supervisory board, also confirmed ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Eleven cement companies will be forced to make a provision of Rs 669 crore in the June quarter for the Rs 6,698-crore penalty levied on them by the Competition Commission of India. In the cement price cartelisation case, the Supreme Court ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
The leaders of the world's leading gas exporting nations are due to meet in Moscow Monday for the second summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum to discuss the future of the gas market amid uncertainties over the supply and demand ...
Tags: Gas Exporting
OPEC's role in supplying global oil markets has not been diminished by the surge in oil production in the United States, though trade patterns willshift as a result of the shale boom in North America, the head of the International Energy ...
The investment firm Mutares sold the veneer converter HIB-Trim Parts to its competitor NBHX. The sale took effect retroactively to 1 January. The German Federal Cartel Office approved the merger on 16 May and the sale closed on 28 May. Both ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Software AG has signed a deal to acquire IT portfolio management software vendor alfabet AG, and plans to combine the company's tools with its own ARIS process modeling products. Terms of the agreement, which was announced Monday, were not ...
Tags: Software AG, Alfabet AG, IT Portfolio Management Software
OPEC ministers should consider the needs of the global oil market in a year's time, rather than just the current demand/supply balance, when they meet to review the cartel's production ceiling in two weeks, the head of the International ...
Tags: OPEC, oil market
Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it has become the first company to reach an agreement with German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn, regarding the German rail steel cartel. Accordingly, voestalpine has agreed to ...
Tags: Voestalpine, Deutsche Bahn, Rail Cartel Case
On 23 April, the EU Commission‘s competition authorities approved the takeover of Spano by Unilin, which is owned by the US-American company Mohawk. The approval under cartel law had already been granted following the provisional ...
Tags: EU Commission, Construction
The European Commission said it has launched a formal investigation into a group of smartcard chip suppliers who are suspected of breaking the European Union's antitrust laws by operating a cartel, and has sent letters detailing its ...
Tags: Computer Products, Chip
The South African Competition Commission (SACC) has conducted an investigation into the dealings of six glass suppliers and has charged them with "cartel conduct" and proposed that a penalty be levied against them. The SACC had ...
Tags: Glass Suppliers, glass
A court in California declined to certify as class action a lawsuit by workers alleging an illegal cartel formed by seven technology companies including Apple, Google and Intel. The judge, however, raised the possibility that she may ...