Australia’s competition regulator has approved the CAD1.29bn ($1.01bn) acquisition of Murray Goulburn Co-Operative (MG) by Canadian dairy producer Saputo. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said that it will not ...
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Australia’s competition regulator has raised concerns about a proposed CAD1.29bn ($1.01bn) acquisition of Murray Goulburn Co-Operative (MG) by Canada’s Saputo, saying that the transaction would lead to lower prices being paid to ...
Online shopping could soon get an augmented reality twist, as a new report suggests Amazon is working on a way to drag and drop virtual furniture into a simulated version of our homes. That’s the latest word from an anonymous source ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will launch an inquiry to look into competition and fair trading aspects in the dairy industry. Its dairy industry inquiry will investigate competition among milk processors, ...
Tags: Dairy Industry, Watchdog
Speaking at the AFR Retail Summit in Melbourne, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims stressed the importance of competition. “Competition is essential to our economic prosperity; it drives innovation and ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose two separate proposals by consortia to acquire the 50-year lease of the Port of Melbourne, following careful consideration of potential cross-ownership interests and ...
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Bern Unlimited Inc. has promoted Jeff Cavicchi, formerly National Sales Manager, to Director of Global Operations and named three new leaders to head up sales both in the U.S. and overseas. Cavicchi, a 20-year veteran of the bike ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has initiated legal proceedings against Heinz over nutritional claims made on its Little Kids Shredz infant food range. Little Shredz have been sold in major Australian ...
Tags: young children, Shreadz products
Australia's consumer watchdog has filed a lawsuit against H.J. Heinz Company, alleging that it made false and misleading representations in its advertisement for Little Kids Shredz products. The Australian Competition and Consumer ...
Tags: Shredz products, ACCC, sugar
Xidian University in China has used pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to increase indium gallium nitride (InGaN) room-temperature channel mobility to 1681cm2/V-s, which is claimed to be a record [Yachao Zhang et al, ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved the £71bn merger of Anheuser Busch InBev and SABMiller, after concluding that the deal would not affect the domestic market. The regulator's decision came after ...
Responses to last week’s Australian Federal Court’s decision to impose a $300, 000 penalty on Free Range Egg Farms (FREF) has attracted a strong reaction in food industry and food compliance circles. In a decision handed down ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be commencing a market study into the Australian cattle and beef industry. The study will examine competition, efficiency, transparency and trading issues in the beef and ...
Tags: ACCC, Market study, Australian cattle, Beef industry
The first ever review of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) will test whether consumer protections will suit the modern market place says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims. Speaking today at the ...
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A former executive at Kellogg's Australia has claimed in an article appearing in Fairfax's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers that the supermarket majors Woolworths and Coles could be using supplier information to help develop ...
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