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14 May 2000 -
High Court finds Carter Holt breached Commerce Act by below cost pricing against New Wool Products Ltd insulation. The High Court at Auckland has found that the manufacturer of "Pink Batts" fibreglass insulation, Carter Holt Harvey…
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23 Apr 2000 -
Cordless telephone distributors were price fixing: all distribution agreements must comply with Commerce Act. Acknowledgment by cordless phone distributor, Vtech Distributors Limited, and another distributor that they were price fixing is a warning
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15 Nov 2000 -
Freedom Communications fined $8,000: cellphone calls advertised at 5 cents a minute cost 99 cents a minute. The Auckland District Court today fined Freedom Communications Limited $8,000 for breaching the Fair Trading Act by advertising cellphone
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12 Sep 2000 -
Stock agent fined $4,000: deliberately falsified sale dockets, overcharged farmer $3,920 for cattle. The Hamilton District Court today fined independent stock agent Hugh Roderick Chisholm $4,000 after he admitted that he had deliberately falsified
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28 Aug 2000 -
Commission's preliminary view: on current information, it would not authorise RAL to acquire Turoa. The Commerce Commission today gave its preliminary view that, based on information currently available, it would not authorise Ruapheu Alpine…
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17 Apr 2000 -
First exemption for individual: Commission exempts Joan Withers from the Electricity Industry Reform Act. The Commerce Commission has granted its first Electricity Industry Reform Act exemption to an individual Ms Joan Withers has been exempted from
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15 Feb 2000 -
Caltex, Mobil and Shell were price fixing: High Court imposes $1.175 million penalties. The Auckland High Court today ordered Caltex New Zealand Limited, Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited and Shell New Zealand Limited to pay penalties totalling $1.175
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15 Jun 2000 -
More Commission action against oil companies: Mobil and Caltex misleading advertising of petrol prices. The Commerce Commission has warned Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited and Caltex New Zealand Limited to take urgent steps to ensure that they do not
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19 Jan 2000 -
Important Fair Trading Act precedents: partners can be criminally liable for each other's actions; silence can mislead. Criminal convictions of Dianne Stephanie Burton and Brian Charles Carson as the partners who ran Folio Model and Talent
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21 Aug 2000 -
Shell applies for clearance to acquire FCE: offers to divest some assets including Challenge petrol stations. The Commerce Commission has received an application from Shell Exploration Company BV for clearance of its proposal to acquire Fletcher