Topic: Market sharing

New Zealand’s antitrust watchdog has issued formal warnings to eight international freight forwarding companies that it says likely conspired with a pair of suppliers with which they also competed.

02 November 2022

The Portuguese and Spanish antitrust watchdogs have jointly raided a wood chip company in Spain over potential market-sharing and unlawful information exchanges.

26 October 2022

An appellate court in Paris has slashed a landmark €1.1 billion fine levied against Apple by France’s Competition Authority, reducing the penalty to €371.6 million because the agency used the wrong calculation method and failed to substantiate price-fixing allegations.

07 October 2022

Australian prosecutors have argued that the imposition of a custodial sentence on a former manager at an active pharmaceutical ingredient producer who has pleaded guilty to criminal cartel charges is necessary for future deterrence.

16 September 2022

Finland’s competition watchdog has asked the national Market Court to fine the country’s two largest plastic pipe manufacturers and three largest plastic pipe wholesalers a combined €43 million for operating a seven-year market-sharing cartel, marking the agency’s fourth-largest fining proposal.

09 September 2022

Poland’s antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into a domestic Kia importer and 10 of its dealers on suspicion the companies agreed to fix prices and allocate the local market for the manufacturer's cars.

07 September 2022

Austria’s antitrust enforcer has asked the country’s specialist competition court to fine four companies belonging to one construction group a total of €26.3 million after they admitted to participating in the country’s largest-ever cartel.

06 September 2022

The head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said that repealing a set of special exemptions that benefit the liner shipping industry would help stimulate competition between rivals on Australian trade routes.

01 September 2022

The Department of Justice says the testimony of William Harwin’s alleged primary co-conspirator will prove the doctor was involved in a criminal agreement to allocate cancer treatments in southwest Florida.

18 August 2022

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has closed its probe into a proposed capacity-sharing agreement between P&O Ferries and DFDS, after the operators promised to appoint a monitoring trustee to ensure they comply with a commitment to limit service cancellations.

08 August 2022