Dear Readers,
As Mark Katz, the guest editor for this CPI issue puts it: “Perhaps more than ever, tensions between suppliers and retailers have become the defining feature of the grocery industry worldwide. These tensions have also frequently formed the basis for interventions by competition enforcement authorities in this sector.”
In this edition, we are looking at some of those interventions as our contributing authors ponder some relevant questions, such as, how should the Canadian Competition Bureau deal with merger investigations in the grocery sector, and far should it do in regulating the pricing matters, and what is the best way forward for it, what should be the approach of the U.S. antitrust authorities to food industry mergers, what has been competition law enforcement activity in the United Kingdom under the antitrust rules and also the so-called market investigation regime (merger control is outside its scope), what are the dynamics at play in the regulation of Australian grocery industry, and how has the Government and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission responded to the concerns so far. We look at similar questions in context of New Zealand as well. Plenty of food for thought!
As always, thank you to our great panel of authors.
Sincerely,
CPI Team
