Sentences with phrase «competition regulators in»

Interestingly, competition regulators in Mexico and the United Kingdom have successfully attacked such restrictions.

The licensing deal for Australia's No. 1 selling imported beer, Corona, will come under close scrutiny by the Australian competition regulator in the wake of an in - principle agreement for a $ 146 billion global mega-merger between Anheuser - Busch InBev and SAB Miller.

Not exact matches

In a move likely aimed at appeasing competition regulators, the mining companies scrapped plans to jointly market up to 15 per cent of production from their Pilbara operations.

Perth ISP iiNet says Telstra's increase in wholesale line rental is a tactic to restrict competition that has «backfired» and welcomes the competition regulator's decision to issue Telstra with a consultation notice.

Market volatility through the first quarter led to a 20 % decline in takeover activity versus the same period a year earlier, and now regulators are flexing their muscles to hinder transactions that have already been announced that involve reducing taxes or competition.

The other problem is regulators, who would likely be hesitant to approve a megamerger in a sector that's already arguably short on competition.

Federal regulators are set to wave through Charter Communications» $ 55 billion bid for Time Warner Cable, with a few key conditions aimed at ensuring that the emerging video streaming industry, personified by the likes of Netflix and Hulu, can provide in future what the cable market has historically lacked: competition.

This person should have worked in the country for a period of years and know the local competition, the regulators and emerging trends and forces in the industry.

But Delrahim's selection stands in contrast with his boss in the Oval Office when it comes to one of the most prominent competition issues currently in the hands of government regulators: The AT&T - Time Warner merger.

As a result, the regulator also plans to hold a separate proceeding early next year to further probe the state of competition in the wholesale roaming market.

May 2017 ---- Facebook is fined $ 122M in Europe for providing «incorrect or misleading» information to competition regulators who cleared its 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

While Tabcorp and Tatts Group try and get their $ 11.3 billion tie up past the competition regulator, Street Talk can reveal some of their smaller rivals in the horse and sports betting industry are mapping out their own futures.

WASHINGTON U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday pressed regulators on how they plan to preserve competition in the banking sector if Congress passes a bill that is expected to lead to consolidation among mid-sized lenders.

BEIJING China will form a powerful new competition and food safety regulator in a bid to ramp up oversight of mergers and acquisitions and price - fixing as the world's second - largest economy seeks to make policymaking more efficient.

And now it seems only a matter of time before the competition regulator is asked to weigh in on Murray Goulburn's auction.

The competition regulator claims to have busted apart a cartel in which Woolworths conspired with three multinational consumer goods companies to push up prices in the $ 500 million market for laundry detergents.

Against this backdrop, the company faces a class action, is being investigated by ASIC and the competition regulator ACCC has taken legal action in the Federal Court, alleging unconscionable conduct and misleading farmers in relation to forecasting a milk price of $ 6.05 when it allegedly knew dairy commodity prices were falling globally.

The competition regulator's decision to approve the deal last week without making market inquiries has intrigued bottlers, suppliers and advisers alike, particularly after its intervention last year in Asahi's acquisition of Australia's third - largest soft drink and water bottler, P&N Beverages.

The deal, which underpins BP's and Woolworths» ambitious convenience store plans, is now under a cloud because the competition regulator fears it may lessen competition in fuel and convenience retailing and lead to higher pump prices by removing a strong competitor.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia has accused the competition regulator of using «failed gambles» and spurious analysis in its regulation of mobile phone and text message prices.

The deal is now under a cloud because the competition regulator fears it may lessen competition in fuel and convenience retailing, and lead to higher pump prices by removing a strong competitor.

CBH insisted over and again to the competition regulator, to its owners and customers and to the media that Brookfield would likely abuse the market power delivered it by the alliance of the rail tracks it already owned in WA and the giant freight train company that would arrive with a successful run at Asciano.

Following this opposition from the regulator, AGL instituted proceedings in the Federal Court seeking a declaration that the proposed acquisition would not infringe s 50 of the TPA, which prohibits mergers which substantially lessen competition.

But the competition regulator continues to pursue Woolworths over allegations it treated suppliers unconscionably in 2014 — allegations the No. 1 chain has vowed to «vigorously» defend in court.

ACCUSATIONS that Australia's two grocery giants, Coles and Woolworths, engaged in improper practices to force down prices from suppliers are being investigated by the nation's most powerful competition regulator.

The Metcash victory in the Federal Court against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is a rare and welcome victory that should force the competition regulator back to the draCompetition and Consumer Commission is a rare and welcome victory that should force the competition regulator back to the dracompetition regulator back to the drawing board.

At a tribunal hearing in Adelaide on Tuesday, the competition regulator tried to stall Murray Goulburn's application on the basis that as more investors accepted Saputo's bid, it had become more difficult to gather evidence.

Woolworths Group chief executive Brad Banducci says the supermarket chain can fund its ambitious store renewal program without $ 1.8 billion in cash from the sale of its fuel business, which has been blocked by the competition regulator.

Large retailers met with politicians and regulators in Canberra yesterday - a bit of media on this: Eli Greenblat, «Retailers lay down deregulation gauntlet» (The Australian, 28 October 2014), Sue Mitchell and Matthew Knott, «Australian National Retailers Association condemns Harper review's «dangerous» competition law shake - up» (SMH, 27 October 2014) and Joanna Heath, «Retailers slam Harper change «drafted by lawyers» (The Australian Financial Review, 27 October 2014 (paper version 28 October 2014, page 9)-RRB-

In a provisional decision, the competition regulator alleged supermarkets Asda, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury, and Tesco, as well as dairy processors Arla, Dairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and cheese.

With huge margins achieved by Australia's fairly concentrated meat processing heavyweights such as Teys and JBS as well as smaller players in the last few years, there has been concern that cattle producers were being ripped off, sparking a parliamentary inquiry and a market study by the competition regulator.

Mike Kane has opened a second front in his public contest with the competition regulator over a proposed merger.

Mr Sims said the regulator did not make a policy of giving every company it believed was in breach of competition laws the opportunity to change their actions in order to escape prosecution.

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The competition regulator has put the Australian cattle market on notice by reinforcing recommendations for modernising reform with news that it has launched cartel investigations in the wake of a self - initiated market study into the nation's single biggest contributor to agricultural incomes.

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The competition regulator flagged concerns on Thursday, specifically the impact the acquisition would have on competition for farmers» raw milk in western Victoria if Saputo, which owns Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, ended up owning Murray Goulburn's Koroit dairy plant.

«To address gaps in the regulatory architecture related to lack of effective consideration of competitive outcomes in financial markets, an existing regulator must be given a mandate to take the lead on matters related to competition in the financial system.

Ofcom (the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communication industries) has introduced rules regarding product placement in television programmes.

The exam regulator Ofqual — which has done such a great job in recent months upholding standards — was clear that there were significant risks in trying to both strengthen qualifications and end competition in a large part of the exams market.

Referring to the «marketplace» of residential children's homes, Gove explained: «We are working with competition experts and economic regulators, as well as private and local authority providers, to improve the commissioning system in this market.»

These include patent expirations, the rise of competition from generics, a downward pressure on drug prices, increasing scrutiny from regulators and health technology assessment bodies, pressure to move research offshore, and the crisis in R&D productivity.

As a result, regulators with Draconian powers have been called upon to provide artificial competition and to control profits through the imposition of special «targets», which probably provide more distortion in the marketplace than ever before.

The hefty sum — the largest ever doled out by the EU's competition regulators — will sting in the short term, but Google can handle it.

The 5 most likely sources, of the next big advances in eReaders, probably are — A new ePaper company, the Amazon vs B&N competition, Google, an eReader App Store, Regulators.

While regulators have done a good job of fostering competition in other areas of the financial markets, they have not done enough to encourage price competition among mutual funds and other financial products sold to retail investors.

Competition between banks and slight improvements in the credit markets are prompting looser standards for qualifying for mortgages and other loans, say regulators at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.