Sentences with phrase «fixed retail prices»

So far, it's being trialled by a handful of major publishers who enforce fixed retail prices and pay the retailer a commission.

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.

In a statement this week the authority said that as a result of the settlement the two companies» dairies «both gave undertakings in the High Court last Friday - 25 July - that they would comply with the terms of the Competition Act 2002 and not enter into any agreement, or engage in any concerted practice, to fix the retail price of liquid milk».

He also offered multiple examples of disagreement between Apple and the publishers over the proposed contracts, this contention serving as proof that the parties were not acting in unison to fix retail prices.

According to the August 10, 1981 French law concerning the fixed book price system, any person publishing or importing a book in France is required to set a fixed retail price for the book.

The move from agency to wholesale included a move from fixed retail pricing to fixed wholesale pricing.

It is believed these supermarkets and dairy processors deliberately engaged in fixing the retail prices for milk, butter and cheese by sharing commercially sensitive information in 2002 — 03.

Not exact matches

Because bitcoin has a fixed supply limit and demand towards bitcoin from casual investors, institutional and retail traders are always increasing at an exponential rate, logically and mathematically, the value and price of bitcoin have to increase.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) denies the price fixing charges while Dairy Crest said it had co-operated fully with the OFT's investigations over the past three years, and would continue to do so.

Mr Joyce raised expectations of action on Sunday, saying the price of milk was an «anathema» and he would get on the phone to processors and retailers to urge them to «fix» the situation.

December 2007 also saw a number of UK - based retailers and dairy processors admitting involvement in alleged dairy price fixing for powdered milk, butter and cheese, resulting in combined fines of about # 116m ($ 161m) from the country's own regulator.

A further nine companies including Mevgal, Fage and retailer Carrefour are also alleged to be involved in the latest round of price fixing amounting to about $ 28m worth of fines for the industry, according to the Dow Jones Newswires service.

In a directions hearing before Justice Bernard Murphy on Friday, petrol retailers denied that sharing of historical information via the Informed Sources website constituted price fixing or that it substantially lessened competiition.

See, for example, Lucille Keen, «ACCC sues petrol retailers, Informed Sources» (Financial Review, 20 August 2014), Ben Butler, «ACCC takes action on petrol pricing» (Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 2014), Annabel Hepworth, «Petrol giants face legal test on prices» (The Australian, 21 August 2014) ACCC takes BP, Caltex, Woolworths, Coles Express, 7 - Eleven and Informed Sources to Federal Court» (news.com.au, 20 August 2014), Michael Janda, «ACCC launches legal action against Informed Sources and retailers over alleged petrol price sharing» (ABC News, 21 August 2014) and Simon Thomsen, «Competition Watchdog Takes Fuel Big Boys To Court Over Alleged Price Fixing» (20 August 2price sharing» (ABC News, 21 August 2014) and Simon Thomsen, «Competition Watchdog Takes Fuel Big Boys To Court Over Alleged Price Fixing» (20 August 2Price Fixing» (20 August 2014).

UK - retailer Morrisons has refused to confirm that it is seeking a judicial review of an ongoing investigation by the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) into allegations of milk price fixing.

Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco, will pay a reduced # 6.5 m penalty to the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for its involvement in the widespread fixing the cheese retail prices.

Major dairy processors and supermarkets in the UK have been fined almost # 50m for retail price - fixing that took place almost ten years ago, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

A number of UK - based retailers and dairy processors have admitted involvement in alleged dairy price fixing for powdered milk, butter and cheese, resulting in combined fines of about # 116m ($ 161m).

Irish dairy group Glanbia has reached a settlement with the Irish competition authority over allegations concerning the fixing of the retail price of milk.

A second example, beyond the audiovisual sector: Via fixed book prices agreements, publishing houses in a number of European countries tie retailers to a certain price level.

There are concerns that under the auspices of Energy Retail Association meetings, members agreed on matters such as price fixing through the raising and lowering of tariffs within weeks of one another.

Although the Office of Fair Trading agrees that the price of CDs seems too high, it can find no evidence of price fixing and collusion between record companies and retailers, and no evidence of abuse of monopoly.

Also enclosed is a price sheet that shows how much each item retails for and even what the total cost of the entire fix would be if you kept every item.

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«The retail prices for these books are different for each of these markets and are fixed by sales teams specific to each region.»

But since the book price in Germany is fixed, amazon has to charge the same price from it's customers, as any other retailer.

An author's cost to purchase his or her own book from the self - publishing company should be a fixed price based upon format and page count, not a discount from the retail price of the book.

Price fixing means that all books have to be priced the same at all online retailers.

France's fixed price law, called the Lang Law, was established in 1981 and says that publishers decide on the retail price of their books.

Under that 1981 law, books in the country were sold at a fixed price, which was meant to protect small booksellers from the ravages of big box discount stores and retail chains that were already cropping up even then.

Also, in Portugal, the European retailer Probitas will be carrying the EcoPC alias Mobi One where its price has been fixed at $ 692.

Retailing through the Handii Asia Pvt Ltd the price tag has been fixed at SGD$ 899 / SGD $ 799 for the 3G and Non 3G respectively.

Retail price per book - Fixed fee per book to produce the book - Per page charge based on number of pages in book - Percentage paid to distribution channel = Royalty paid to author

Defendants» conspiracy and agreement, in which the Publisher Defendants and Apple agreed to raise, fix, and stabilize retail e-book prices, to end price competition among e-book retailers, and to limit retail price competition among the Publisher Defendants by fixing retail e-book prices, constitutes a per se violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1.

The conspiracy and agreement consists of an understanding and concert of action among Defendants and their co-conspirators to raise, fix, and stabilize retail e-book prices, to end price competition among e-book retailers, and to limit retail price competition among the Publisher Defendants, ultimately effectuated by collectively adopting and adhering to functionally identical methods of selling e-books and price schedules.

E. Settling Defendants shall not enter into or enforce any agreement, arrangement, understanding, plan, program, combination, or conspiracy with any E-book Publisher (including another Publisher Defendant) to raise, stabilize, fix, set, or coordinate the Retail Price or Wholesale Price of any E-book or fix, set, or coordinate any term or condition relating to the Sale of E-books.

So I see this move as not a final fix, or even much of an interim improvement, but as a breaking of a logjam which will now allow multiple players and market factors to participate in setting price points and retail terms, instead of leaving everything in Amazon's hands.

The Publisher Defendants» collective adoption of the Apple Agency Agreements allowed them (facilitated by Apple) to raise, fix, and stabilize retail e-book prices in three steps: (a) They took away retail pricing authority from retailers; (b) they then set retail e-book prices according to the Apple price tiers; and (c) they then exported the agency model and higher retail prices to the rest of the industry, in part to comply with the retail price MFN included in each Apple Agency Agreement.

Nintendo, APPLE, Playstation, and X-Box products have basically «price fixed» at every retailer and we accept it.

If you (again) assume that editing, layout, and other fixed costs of production are absorbed during a first printing, it's a slam dunk — with 20 % of the retail price going to authors, 10,000 now equates to only 12,500 in digital form3.

While there may be very valid arguments and concerns over how shifting the balance of power back to one major retailer can impact the entire publishing industry, the fact remains: price fixing isn't allowed because it also shifts the balance of power back to one seller.

In The Netherlands there is no fixed book price for ebooks but ALL ebook stores sell the books for the same price, and that is at the publisher's suggested retail price and therefore defacto a fixed book price for ebooks.

The DOJ is confused by the layers of self - interest in the business community and is siding with retail price fixers, rather than producer price fixers, without being clear about the underlying market forces.

After countless hours of legal battle, Macmillan has finally agreed upon a settlement that appeased Judge Denise Cote and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that alleged five of the Big Six publishers conspired with Apple to fix the prices on ebooks sold through online retailers.

The death grip of the fight, it seems, is that Amazon knows that if it allows Hachette to switch to an agency pricing model — which was at the center of the far - reaching ebook price fixing lawsuit between Apple and the Big Five publishers — that other publishers will quickly follow suit, stripping Amazon of much of its power as a discount retailer.

If there has to be any price fixing at all, surely it is best to allow the producer to fix, not the retailer.

Otherwise they / we are at the mercy of big retailers (from Amazon to Barnes and Noble to Waterstones and Indigo) who fix their own prices to satisfy their own marketing concerns.

For example, let's say that for your print book there is a distribution channel fee which is 40 percent of the retail price, a fixed handling fee of $ 1.00 per book, and $ 0.02 per page charge for your 200 - page book.

Fees may be a percentage of the retail price, a fixed fee or may depend on the printing specifications for your book.