COMPANIES that participated in cartel activity in the glass manufacturing industry face prosecution by the Competition Tribunal following an investigation by the Competition Commission. The commission’s investigation, which started ...
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The Competition Commission has referred its findings of cartel conduct against Glass South Africa, National Glass, Northern Hardware & Glass, Furman Glass, McCoy’s Glass and AF-FSL Glass to the Competition Tribunal for a hearing The ...
It doesn't, at first, sound like it, but the title of this post is a mind numbingly stupid (yes, another pun) pun. I'll explain it later. Around 2010, I wrote a novel entitled "Vengeance is Mine!" Toward the end, a Mexican drug cartel ...
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The chance of infection by malware from counterfeit software is three in 10 for businesses, and one in three for consumers, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research firm IDC. Police prevented from ...
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Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced that its Steel Europe unit offices in Duisburg were searched by the Federal Cartel Office, Germany's antitrust regulator, on Thursday, February 28, within the scope of alleged ...
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Several sawmills in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) are checking to see of log deliveries to Klausner group can be prevented with the aid of competition law. For this reason roughly ten businesses with a combined cutting capacity of almost 1m ...
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The Canadian timber group Interfor aims to take over the Wood Products Business division of Rayonier for around US$80m. The deal essentially includes the three Rayonier sawmills in Georgia, USA, which boast a combined capacity of 360 ...
Saint-Gobain SA’s record 896 million-euro ($1.2 billion) cartel fine may be reduced by European Union regulators within weeks as officials seek to correct a calculation error, according to a Jan. 30 Bloomberg report. Regulators will ...
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An initial decision has meanwhile been reached in the cartel proceedings conducted by the Polish cartel authorities against the wood-based panel manufacturers Kronospan Szczecinek, Kronospan Mielec, Kronopol, Pfleiderer Grajewo and ...
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The German door manufacturer Hormann was poised to acquire all shares in the interior door producer Huga on 31 December 2012. An agreement to this effect was signed with Huga‘s owners, the Gaisendrees family, in mid-December. ...
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IDG News Service - China has punished six companies, including Samsung and LG, for manipulating LCD panel prices in the country, and ordered them to pay a total of $56 million in fines. Samsung, LG, and four Taiwanese companies ...
German state rail operator Deutsche Bahn has filed a lawsuit seeking a reported EUR 750 million in damages against four steel track suppliers that have already been fined by the regulator for fixing prices on track orders. The companies ...
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Grab the bear bottle of honey off the Walmart shelf and have a look.By appearance,the honey looks golden and wholesome.The beehive the honey came from may contain 60,000 honey bees;and those same bees probably tapped over a million flowers ...
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Apple and four other e-book publishers have settled an antitrust battle with the European Union. After a year of investigations into allegations of cartel price-fixing, the European Commission has decided to accept commitments to alter ...
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INTERSEROH Scrap and Metals Holding GmbH, subsidiary of environmental service provider and raw materials trader ALBA Group, acquired the company Reukema Balkan SRL. Altogether the purchase covers twelve scrap yards in Croatia, ...
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