Eight of the UK's major grocers have agreed to sign up to a set of "principles" on special offers and promotions on food and drink products. Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and The Co-operative Group are among retailers to have agreed to ...
Tags: grocers, food, drink products, Tesco, OFT
The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred Booker's acquisition of Makro to the country's competition authority. Booker revealed in an announcement today (7 November), the OFT's decision to refer its completed acquisition of Makro ...
Tags: competition authority, food wholesaler, local cash-and-carry assets
Boparan Holdings has agreed to sell its Avana christmas pudding unit to Sargents Bakeries to settle competition concerns over its acquisition of Brookes Avana from Premier Foods plc. In January, the Office of Fair Trading indicated it ...
Tags: Pudding Asset, Sargents Bakeries, Christmas pudding category
UK’s Office of the Fair Trading (OFT) has directed the Competition Commission to probe the private motor insurance market in the country over allegations of unfair activities being carried out by insurers on motorists. Referring to ...
Tags: OFT, Competition Commission, motor insurance, insurance market
Mike Gibbons,CIO of building materials company Aggregate Industries,talks to Computer Weekly about why regulatory intervention made the company realise the importance of its data assets,and the reason investment in IT is more important now ...
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In a bid to cut tension between mobile operators in the battle to bring 4G to the UK,communications regulator Ofcom and Culture Secretary Maria Miller are holding peace talks with the networks today that could result in 4G services becoming ...
The U.S.Federal Trade Commission has cleared Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram in an unanimous vote,FTC said on Wednesday. The clearance,which comes about a week after the U.K.Office of Fair Trading ...
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The government may struggle to deliver its end-user device strategy due to limited resources and a lack of centralised planning, Computer Weekly has learned. The EUD strategy intends to create a more flexible approach to working by ...
Tags: end-user device, EUD strategy, smartphones, laptops, tablets
The Office of Fair Trading(OFT)–the UK's competition watchdog,has started an investigation into the proposed sale of Premier Foods'vinegar and sour pickles business to Japanese food firm Mizkan. In June 2012,Premier Foods announced ...
Tags: OFT, sour pickles, competition
ASLEC and HEMSA have agreed to merge and form a new organisation called the Highway Electrical Association(HEA). The two organisations,which represent highway electrical contractors and lighting manufacturers in the sector,said the ...