August 1999
Spotless Services applies for clearance to acquire P&O Catering and Services
31 August 1999
The Commerce Commission has received an application to merge two catering businesses.Relates to:
Commission seizes gemstones linked to pyramid scheme
31 August 1999
The Commerce Commission has seized emeralds and other gemstones worth several hundred thousand dollars from a Tauranga company, Hot Ice International Limited.Relates to: Fair Trading
Oil companies price fixing trial starts tomorrow (Monday 30 August)
29 August 1999
The Commerce Commission's case alleging price fixing by oil companies Caltex (NZ) Limited, Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited and Shell New Zealand Limited goes to trial in the Auckland High Court tomorrow (Monday August 30).Relates to: Business Competition
Commission's preliminary determination says 'no' to dairy 'mega-merger'
27 August 1999
The Commission's preliminary view is to decline to grant authorisation to the proposed merger of the Dairy Board and up to eight dairy companies.Relates to:
Commission starts court action against proposed Hoyts/ Village Force merger
22 August 1999
The Commerce Commission has started court action to stop the proposed merger of the Hoyts and Village Force cinema chains.Relates to:
157 retailers warned they risk breaching lighter standard, distributors and manufacturers being investigated
19 August 1999
The Commerce Commission has warned 157 retailers that they risk breaching the product safety standard for cigarette lighters and is investigating some distributors and manufacturers of cigarette lighters.Relates to: Fair Trading
Commission authorises grid security rules
13 August 1999
The Commerce Commission today authorised proposed arrangements that will provide a process for determining common elements of quality for electricity transmission.Relates to: Business Competition
Commission will not act against Imperial buying NZ tobacco assets, but continues BAT/Rothmans investigation
8 August 1999
The Commerce Commission will not prevent Imperial Tobacco Group plc acquiring various tobacco brands and the Petone cigarette factory, but will continue to investigate the British American Tobacco (BAT)/Rothmans merger.Relates to:
Injunctions stop Maximus pyramid scheme, freeze bank accounts
5 August 1999
The Commerce Commission has obtained interim injunctions stopping the operation of an alleged pyramid scheme, Maximus Intermediaries Limited, and freezing its bank accounts.Relates to: Fair Trading
Fine print: We will give you a loan for a fee of up to only $500*
4 August 1999
This example of fine print in advertising is real. It is from one of the Commerce Commission cases being discussed tomorrow at a seminar about advertising regulation, being run by the Commission and the advertising industry.Relates to: Fair Trading
Commission and interested parties get more time to study new information about dairy "mega-merger"
3 August 1999
The Commerce Commission has extended its timetable for the dairy "mega-merger" decision so that it and interested parties can have time to consider fully new information to be provided by the Dairy Board and dairy companies.Relates to:
Commission to monitor pipfruit industry to ensure competition can develop
2 August 1999
The Commerce Commission will continue to monitor the pipfruit industry to ensure that competition can develop effectively should the Government go ahead with its proposed deregulation of the industry.Relates to: Business Competition
