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Commission: Draft report on 2013/14 Fonterra’s base price
Friday, 15 August 2014, 12:11 pm | Commerce Commission
Commission releases draft report on 2013/14 review of Fonterra’s base milk price calculation More >>
New fees for Fair Trading Act offences
Friday, 8 August 2014, 1:46 pm | Commerce Commission
Consumer Affairs Minister Craig Foss says new Fair Trading Act infringement fees coming into force today will further boost consumer confidence and drive competition. More >>
Court upholds souvenir sentences
Friday, 8 August 2014, 1:42 pm | Commerce Commission
The High Court has rejected an appeal by four companies and four individuals who were convicted and fined a total of $601,900 for selling visiting Asian tourists imported alpaca goods as “Made in New Zealand”, and making claims that duvets ... More >>
Preliminary issues of Expedia’s application to acquire Wotif
Friday, 8 August 2014, 10:12 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has published a statement of preliminary issues relating to an application from Expedia Inc. (Expedia) seeking clearance to acquire up to 100% of the shares of Wotif.com Holdings Limited (Wotif). More >>
Farm owner sentenced to home detention for egg deception
Tuesday, 5 August 2014, 4:06 pm | Commerce Commission
Mr John Garnett, owner of now-defunct Northland egg producer Forest Hill Farm, has been sentenced to 12 months home detention and 200 hours community service in the Whangarei District Court today for falsely packaging and selling cage eggs as free ... More >>
Oji cleared to acquire Carter Holt Harvey Pulp & Paper
Friday, 1 August 2014, 4:21 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commission has given clearance for Oji Oceania Management (NZ) Limited (Oji) to acquire up to 100% of the shares in Carter Holt Harvey Pulp & Paper Limited from Carter Holt Harvey Limited. More >>
Consulting on guidelines about unfair contract terms
Thursday, 31 July 2014, 3:17 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released draft guidelines on the new provisions of the Fair Trading Act dealing with unfair contract terms. The unfair contract terms provisions were part of recent amendments to New Zealand’s consumer law and will ... More >>
Atlas Copco granted clearance to acquire Ash Air business
Thursday, 31 July 2014, 1:46 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commission has granted clearance to Atlas Copco South Pacific Holdings Pty Limited (Atlas Copco) to acquire the businesses operated by four Lancaster Group Limited subsidiary companies: Ash Air (N.Z) Limited, Ash Air Oil & Gas Limited, mbar 2011 ... More >>
Commerce Commission: consumer credit community of interest
Thursday, 31 July 2014, 12:56 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission is holding its first ‘Credit Matters Roundtable’ in South Auckland today with a wide range of community organisations in attendance. Today’s roundtable is the first in a series of three, each focusing on a different group ... More >>
Bledisloe cleared to acquire Cremation Society
Friday, 25 July 2014, 10:15 am | Commerce Commission
Bledisloe New Zealand cleared to acquire Cremation Society of Canterbury and Harewood Memorial Gardens & Crematorium More >>
Draft decision on WACC for gas and electricity services
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 9:19 am | Commerce Commission
Commission releases draft decision on the WACC used for regulation of electricity lines and gas pipeline services More >>
Commission to investigate Chorus' proposed changes
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 9:15 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission will investigate a complaint that Chorus’ proposed changes to the regulated unbundled bitstream access (UBA) service are an enforceable breach under the Telecommunications Act. More >>
Expedia seeks clearance to acquire Wotif
Monday, 21 July 2014, 11:51 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has received an application from Expedia Inc. (Expedia) seeking clearance to acquire up to 100% of the shares of Wotif.com Holdings Limited (Wotif). More >>
Commerce Commission considers rendering merger
Monday, 14 July 2014, 2:35 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has received an application for a newly formed company, Tuakau Proteins Ltd, to acquire certain animal rendering business interests from Graeme Lowe Protein Ltd, and Kakariki Proteins Ltd. More >>
CDC Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy Wholesalers merger
Friday, 11 July 2014, 12:13 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has published a statement of preliminary issues relating to a joint application from CDC Pharmaceuticals Limited and Pharmacy Wholesalers (Central) Limited (PWL Central) seeking clearance to merge their respective wholesaling ... More >>
Consumers reminded to watch out for in-app purchases
Thursday, 10 July 2014, 11:09 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission is today reminding consumers about the potential to accidentally make in-app purchases when using applications (apps) on their mobile devices. More >>
Commission consults on cost modelling UCLL and UBA services
Wednesday, 9 July 2014, 1:18 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released a consultation paper seeking views on a number of decisions in relation to the cost models it will build to price the unbundled bitstream access (UBA) service and the unbundled copper local loop (UCLL) service. More >>
Unregulated UBA services
Monday, 7 July 2014, 8:46 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today released an issues paper relating to its assessment of whether the two new unregulated UBA services, Boost HD and Boost VDSL, proposed by Chorus on 14 May, fall within the category of regulated UBA service. The issues ... More >>
Draft price-quality paths for electricity distributors
Friday, 4 July 2014, 10:04 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission is seeking submissions on its proposed average price limits and quality targets for 16 electricity distributors. More >>
Electricity distributors warned about service quality
Friday, 27 June 2014, 12:29 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has warned Eastland Network Limited (Eastland), Aurora Energy Limited (Aurora) and Electricity Invercargill Limited (Electricity Invercargill) after they each failed to comply with the quality standards for electricity distributors ... More >>
