Sentences with phrase «against predatory pricing»

Congress also acted to protect state «fair trade» laws that further safeguarded against predatory pricing.

The Western Australian government has called on its federal counterpart to beef up its Trade Practices Act (TPA) to help protect small business against predatory pricing by big business.

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This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

In «Farmers backed in Coles milk battle» (Herald Sun, 5 April 2011), Matt Johnston claims that the Australian Dairy Farmers group «is canvassing financial support to bankroll a case against Coles, accusing the supermarket giant of predatory pricing».

Torres, also endorsed by StreetsPAC, is well versed in a broad range of progressive issues — from participatory budgeting to the battle against «predatory equity» and derelict landlords to sustainability, a key policy concern of his that encompasses issues including the health impacts of truck exhaust pollution, the need for congestion pricing to reduce traffic, the availability of nutritious fresh food, and the maintenance of affordable and livable housing.

In the Special Events hall of today's IDPF Digital Book event, a last minute guest speaker, Paul Aiken from the Author's Guild, gave a ten - minute one - sided explanation of the DoJ investigation against Apple and five publishers but he somehow managed to insert the phrase, «Amazon's predatory pricing model,» three times, despite the fact that Amazon is not named in the investigation or lawsuits.

In part one of our story, I rode out to battle against what now feels like the absolutely quaint notion that barraging the game's community with media hyping future cash shop products that conspicuously excludes pricing, then releasing those products at absurd price points with only a few days of availability was a predatory and anti-consumer way to market a product that leveraged fear of missing out to take advantage of players of a certain mindset.