The Federal Court in Sydney has ordered Thai Airways International Public Company to pay $7.5 million in penalties for engaging in cartel conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (now the Competition and Consumer Act 2010). ...
Tags: Price Fixing, Airways, Penalties, Service
Apple and four major e-book publishers have offered retailers such as Amazon.com the option to set their own prices for e-books for the next two years in a bid to end an antitrust investigation in the European Union. The European ...
Tags: Apple, ebook publishers, prices, rivals
AU Optronics was fined $500 million by a court in San Francisco on Thursday, and two of its former executives were fine and sentenced to three-year prison terms in connection with an LCD price-fixing conspiracy, the Department of Justice ...
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A former executive at Taiwanese LCD marker AU Optronics has been convicted of participating in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of LCD panels,the U.S.Department of Justice said. Shiu Lung Leung,AU Optronics'former senior manager ...
Tags: AU Optronics, LCD panels, fix prices, Shiu Lung Leung
Penguin Group has become the latest book publisher to reach a settlement with the U.S.Department of Justice in a lawsuit that alleges that Apple and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices. Under the proposed settlement ...
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The Federal Court has ordered Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd and Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte Ltd to pay a total of $23 million in penalties for engaging in cartel conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (now the Competition and ...
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On December 3,the glass futures was formally listed on Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange.As the world's first glass futures,it has a profound and wide impact on micro-sized glass company and China glass industry and even the whole futures ...
Tags: glass future, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, glass industry, impact
The people at PETA must sleep at night dreaming up scamming visions designed to finagle you–the John Q.Public–to hand over your hard-earned money to support its anti-meat,pro-vegetarian agenda. In case you've been practicing ...
Tags: PETA, finagle, pro-vegetarian, animal
The Israel's antitrust authority has indicted several bakery chains for setting prices,preventing competition,and dividing the customer base among themselves,in violation of the Restrictive Trade Practices Law. The bakeries that have been ...
Tags: antitrust authority, prices, competition, Restrictive Trade Practices Law
In the late '90s, when most of us could only dream of having a thin, widescreen TV, several manufacturers were fixing prices on the LCD screens that were about to revolutionize the industry. More than a decade later, consumers who bought ...
Tags: LCD, Consumer Electronics, widescreen TV, TV
The Spanish national competition commission decided to open formal proceedings against a total of 24 Spanish pallet manufacturers, repair businesses, and the Spanish EPAL national committee Asociación Calipal Espana (Calipal). ...
Tags: market view, pallet
Three Chinese solar companies listed in the U. S. Said they would take action to fight what they called groundless accusations from bankrupt American company Solyndra which filed an anti-trust lawsuit on October 11, China Business News ...
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WASHINGTON --- The majority of merchant plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar proposed antitrust settlement over credit card swiping fees now say they oppose the agreement with Visa, MasterCard and some of the nation's largest banks. "The ...
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The companies make and distribute polystyrene(PS)foam trays and polypropylene(PP)rigid trays.These products are widely used for packaging food–such as fish,meat or cheese–in the retail sector. The EC said that these firms ...
Tags: EC, PS foam trays, PP rigid trays, EU antitrust rules
Taipei,Sept.13,2012(CENS)--The United States Justice Department has appealed court for ruling 10 years in prison on AU Optronics Vice Chairman H.B.Chen and its former vice president,H.Hsiung,and US$1 billion in fine on the company for the ...
Tags: Penalty, LCD, Price Fixing, U.S.Justice Department