Topic: Excessive pricing

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched a market investigation into Motorola’s Airwave network – the mobile radio network used by all emergency services in Great Britain – after a public consultation reinforced the agency’s concerns that the company may be earning excess profits.

25 October 2021

The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal has certified its second-ever class action, allowing a claim to proceed that seeks €469 million in damages from BT for allegedly overcharging 2.3 million landline service customers.

27 September 2021

The Competition Commission of India has fined United Breweries, Carlsberg and eight of their executives a total of 9 billion rupees (€104 million) for price-fixing, collectively restricting supplies and dividing the country’s beer market.

24 September 2021

Mexico’s competition enforcer has fined five drug distributors, an industry association and 21 executives the highest possible combined sanction of €38.5 million, while also disqualifying senior company employees for the first time in its history.

17 August 2021

The UK’s antitrust watchdog has agreed to advise the government on whether travellers are being charged excessive prices for covid-19 tests after the health secretary asked it to conduct a “rapid high-level review”.

09 August 2021

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has accused Pfizer and Flynn Pharma of charging unfairly high prices for an anti-epilepsy medication, 17 months after an appellate court ordered the agency to redo parts of its initial probe into the drugmakers.

05 August 2021

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has hit Advanz Pharma and its two former owners with more than £100 million in fines for overcharging the country’s national health service for thyroid medication liothyronine over an eight-year period.

29 July 2021

The Dutch competition authority has fined Leadiant Biosciences €17.9 million for charging excessively high prices for a drug used to treat a rare genetic metabolic disorder, marking the first time it has ever imposed a penalty for such an infringement.

19 July 2021

A trade union has filed an antitrust complaint against Amazon in the UK alleging that the platform operator abused its dominance by excessively raising the price of essential items during the coronavirus pandemic.

13 July 2021

BT has argued that the UK’s specialist competition tribunal should throw out a proposed class action seeking €469 million in damages on behalf of 2.3 million UK consumers that the telecommunications provider allegedly overcharged for landline services.

24 June 2021