Tag: ACCC
Australia: Flight Centre fined US$12.5m after price-fix ruling
Flight Centre has been slapped with a US$12.5 million dollar fine for attempting to fix pricing with international airlines between 2005 and 2009.
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Australia: Equifax sued by regulator for misleading consumers
Australia’s competition regulator said on Friday it was suing credit reporting company Equifax Pty Ltd, owned by US-based Equifax Inc, alleging it misled consumers...
Australia: Flight Centre has been fined for ‘price fixing’
Australia’s largest travel agency, Flight Centre, has been fined $12.5 million for attempting to induce three international airlines to enter into price fixing between...
Australia: ACCC clears path for US$1.2b Accor merger with Mantra
The US$1.2 billion acquisition of Mantra Group by European hotel giant Accor to create Australia's dominant hotel and resort operator is expected to be...
Canada/Australia: Saputo in talks with ACCC on Murray Goulburn asset sales
According to Reuters, Montreal-based Saputo has conceded it will have to divest Murray Goulburn's Koroit processing plant to compete the AU$1.3 billion (US$1 billion)...
Australia: Watchdog taking Woolworths to court
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Woolworths Limited in Federal Court for allegedly misleading consumers. The watchdog said that the supermarket...
Australia: ACCC to probe how Facebook, Google hurt quality journalism
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will examine the impact of Facebook and Google vacuuming up advertising dollars on access to quality news,...
Australia: ACCC: Foxtel-Fox Sports merger is fair game
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced its decision not to oppose the merger of pay TV provider Foxtel and sports channel...
Australia: Regulator to take GSK, Novartis to court
Australia’s competition watchdog is to take local units of GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis to court over alleged false or misleading marketing of pain relief gels.
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Australia: Regulator to probe Google and Facebook over role in media
The Australian government said Monday, December 4, that it would open an inquiry into Facebook and Google and their impact on the media industries.
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