Sentences with phrase «powerful supermarket chains»
A merger or asset sale would mean one less competitor in an industry dominated by skinny margins and powerful supermarket chains that have screwed down milk prices.
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For Kunkel, the plan was to reduce reliance on beer in a low - growth market as tastes were changing and supermarket chains were becoming more powerful.
His Honour considered that, in the present case, the separation of wholesaling and retailing functions tended to confuse the analysis and that, in light of the more powerful constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains on Metcash, compared with the lesser constraint imposed by Franklins, it was not possible to determine the competition consequences of Metcash's acquisition without taking into account the constraints from the major supermarket chains as market participants.
Based on the evidence before him, the primary judge considered that the major supermarket chains imposed a much more powerful constraint than Franklins on Metcash's market behaviour.
To date, Tesco has sold over 750,000 Hudls so it makes a lot of sense for the UK supermarket chain to follow up the award - winning device with another, more powerful replacement.