Distribution agreements form one of the most commonly used marketing arrangements for businesses looking to trade without having a retail or customer facing presence in a particular market or country. (hcrlaw.com)
ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, said that the «ACCC was concerned that the joint marketing arrangements were likely to have resulted in a substantial lessening of competition in the market for the supply of gas to buyers in the southern states» and that the ACCC believed «that competition in this market was negatively affected by the elimination of independent rivalry between BHP and Esso.» (australiancompetitionlaw.org)
That Agreement may take in elements of current Single Market arrangements in certain areas — on the export of cars and lorries for example, or the freedom to provide financial services across national borders — as it makes no sense to start again from scratch when Britain and the remaining Member States have adhered to the same rules for so many years. (totalpolitics.com)