Small businesses, franchisees and fuel retailers can now join together to enhance their bargaining power, under new rules in place under the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
The class exemption, which came...
MEDIA RELEASE 11.05.2021
The ACCC is seeking views on a proposed undertaking offered by Woolworths and PFD Food Services in relation to Woolworths’ proposed acquisition of 65% of PFD.
In response to the ACCC’s...
MEDIA RELEASE 04.03.2021
Petrol prices in Australia’s five largest cities stabilised at the end of 2020 after an unpredictable year and petrol sales volumes continued to recover from their earlier pandemic-driven slump.
That’s according...
Triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, gas prices fell significantly.
While lower prices are providing some relief to manufacturers and other gas users on Australia’s east coast, prices were still higher than export parity,...
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell shares the ACCC’s concerns about Woolworths’ proposal to acquire 65% of PFD Food Services.
In October, the Ombudsman wrote to the ACCC to...
The ACCC has outlined preliminary competition concerns with Woolworths’ proposal to acquire 65% of PFD Food Services.
According to ACCC Chair Rod Sims, the organisation is concerned that the proposed acquisition seems “likely”...
The ACCC is instituting Federal Court proceedings against Peters Ice Cream (Peters).
It’s alleging it engaged in conduct which hindered or prevented competition for the supply of single-wrapped ice creams to petrol and...
Media Release
29 October, 2020
The ACCC has lodged an appeal against the Federal Court’s decision to dismiss its case against Employsure, in which the ACCC alleged that Employsure’s Google Ads misrepresented that Employsure...
