Sentences with phrase «supply major supermarket chains»

The family owned company achieved Australian Certified Organic certification in 2011 and supply major supermarket chains.

Not exact matches

Despite the drop in industry profits, 87 per cent of suppliers continue to believe that the major supermarket chains are over-earning.

He was responsible for major UK supermarket chain Asda's aggressive push into home brands, a strategy that brought him into constant conflict with suppliers.

Costa Group, which is a major supplier to the big supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles, along with discount supermarket firm Aldi, has five main divisions.

The company supplies organic yoghurt and other dairy products to major supermarket chains such as Morrison, Tesco, Sainsburys, ASDA, Co-op and Waitrose; other clients include Ikea, the London Ritz and Eurostar catering.

In a speech to the COSBOA National Small Business Summit in Melbourne yesterday, ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, reiterated that the ACCC was «looking at concerns raised about the way in which the major supermarket chains deal with their suppliers» and noted that they related to the potential for unconscionable conduct and «concerns over the misuse of market power, particularly in relation to private label products.»

It is a supplier to major supermarket chains.

«Mallee Park piggery is a quality intensive livestock operation boasting a very good supply contract with one of Australia's major supermarket chains,» said Colliers International's Jesse Manuel, who negotiated the sale alongside colleague Tim Altschwager.

[126] Nevertheless, given that independent retailers must compete with major supermarket chains in their vicinities, particularly Woolworths and Coles stores, Metcash encourages the independent retailers it supplies to «benchmark» their standard shelf prices according to the standard shelf prices charged by Woolworths or Coles, particularly in relation to «key value items» that represent particular products whose prices are known and used by consumers to assess the value on offer from a particular store.

(b) Metcash has adopted a strategy of assisting independent retailers supplied by it to compete against the major supermarket chains in terms of both price and non-price factors.

[201] Having regard to the constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains, to which reference is made below, if Metcash were to increase the price of the range of packaged groceries supplied by it by five per cent, or even something less than five per cent, independent retailers would lose customers to the major supermarket chains.

(d) Direct demand - side substitution by consumers between supermarkets operated by independent retailers and supermarkets operated by the major supermarket chains imposed a substantial competitive constraint upon Metcash as a supplier of packaged groceries at the wholesale level.

(h) The threat of independent retailers ceasing to take supply from Metcash and selling their stores to one of the major supermarket chains imposed a substantial competitive constraint on Metcash as a supplier of packaged groceries at the wholesale level.

Accordingly, constraints arising from competition at the retail level between independent retailers supplied by Metcash and supermarkets operated by the major supermarket chains are highly relevant in defining the market for the purposes of the application of s 50 of the Competition Act.

We heard about the new supermarket adjudicator appointed under the UK's mandatory supermarket code of conduct, and how she intended to exercise her powers, including by the imposition of «punitive fines» based on a percentage of turnover in the event of repeated abuses of market power down the supply chain by the supermarket majors.

Media reports indicated that supermarket suppliers were being treated inappropriately by the major supermarket chains.

These proceedings arise from a broader investigation by the ACCC into allegations that supermarket suppliers were being treated inappropriately by the major supermarket chains.

Australia's two major supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, are already making significant steps to completely remove sow stalls from the supply chain of their own brand products.

the imposition on suppliers of penalties that did not form part of any negotiated terms of trade, and which apparently do not relate to actual costs incurred by the major supermarket chains as a result of the conduct which has led to the penalty being imposed;

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Other major industries include auto supplier Denso International and the Felpausch Food Center supermarket chain.