News releases by topic by year

Price fixing

2004 - 2008

• ACCC institutes proceedings against Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte Ltd for alleged price-fixing
  As a result of its ongoing investigation into price fixing cartels in the air cargo industry, the...
  Issued: 22^nd December 2008 Release # MR 370/08
• Court orders British Airways PLC to pay $5 million for price fixing
  The Federal Court in Sydney has ordered British Airways PLC to pay $5 million in pecuniary penalt...
  Issued: 11^th December 2008 Release # MR 352/08
• Court orders Qantas to pay $20 million for price fixing
  The Federal Court in Sydney has ordered Qantas Airways Limited to pay $20 million in pecuniary pe...
  Issued: 11^th December 2008 Release # MR 351/08
• ACCC launches its first cases in alleged air freight cartel
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has today instituted separate proceedings in t...
  Issued: 28^th October 2008 Release # NR 300/08
• $2.5 million penalties for wood preservative price-fix
  The Federal Court has found FChem (Aust) Limited, Osmose Australia Pty Ltd and Mr Edward Mark Gre...
  Issued: 25^th March 2008 Release # MR 082/08
• Federal Court fines Korean education consultants for price fixing
  The Federal Court in Perth has imposed penalties totalling $125,000 on a number of educational se...
  Issued: 5^th February 2008 Release # MR 020/08
• Federal Court finds northern Tasmanian orthodontists engaged in price fixing, market sharing
  The Federal Court of Australia today found that three orthodontic businesses*, each operating in ...
  Issued: 5^th December 2007 Release # MR 326/07
• ACCC welcomes record penalties against Visy: Calls for stronger cartel law
  A record penalty of $36 million was ordered today against Visy Board Pty Ltd and its director and...
  Issued: 2^nd November 2007 Release # MR 302/07
• Penalties for funeral celebrants attempted price fix
  The Federal Court has ordered total penalties of $40,000 against Dally M Publishing and Research ...
  Issued: 13^th August 2007 Release # MR 213/07
• ACCC accepts court-enforceable undertakings from hotelier in Ayr
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has accepted court-enforceable undertakings fr...
  Issued: 3^rd August 2007 Release # MR 201/07
• No appeal against Geelong petrol decision
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not appeal the Geelong petrol decision.
  Issued: 19^th June 2007 Release # MR 148/07
• ACCC alleges attempted price fixing in funeral celebrants market
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted legal proceedings against Dally...
  Issued: 29^th March 2007 Release # MR 085/07
• Settlement of ACCC action against timber merchants
  Three Adelaide timber merchants have given undertakings to the Federal Court as part of a settlem...
  Issued: 24^th January 2007 Release # MR 015/07
• ACCC institutes proceedings against marine GPS navigation products company Navman for alleged resale price maintenance
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings against Navman Aust...
  Issued: 11^th December 2006 Release # MR 299/06
• ACCC discontinues proceedings against global vitamin C cartel
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has discontinued its proceedings in the Federa...
  Issued: 18^th July 2006 Release # MR 156/06
• ACCC accepts court-enforceable undertakings from Gestalt institute over attempted price fix
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has accepted court-enforceable undertakings fr...
  Issued: 30^th May 2006 Release # MR 117/06
• $8.9 million penalty on Safeway for price fixing and misuse of market power in bread market
  A penalty of $8.9 million was imposed today on Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd for fixing the p...
  Issued: 31^st January 2006 Release # MR 015/06
• ACCC alleges price-fixing cartel and boycotts in abalone industry
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings in the Federal Cour...
  Issued: 12^th December 2005 Release # MR 304/05
• Federal Court orders $470,000 in penalties for Brisbane petrol price-fixing
  Pecuniary penalties totalling $470,000 were ordered by the Federal Court yesterday for price-fixi...
  Issued: 1^st December 2005 Release # MR 294/05
• Press comments regarding conduct of the ACCC in the Geelong petrol case
  There has been some commentary in the press in recent days regarding the Australian Competition a...
  Issued: 15^th November 2005 Release # MR 274/05
• ACCC accepts court-enforceable undertakings from ice cream companies over attempted price fixing allegations
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has accepted court-enforceable undertakings fr...
  Issued: 15^th November 2005 Release # MR 273/05
• ACCC to recover penalties from an 'insolvent' company for price fixing contraventions
  The Federal Court today ordered a deed of company arrangement limiting the surplus funds payable ...
  Issued: 7^th October 2005 Release # MR 243/05
• ACCC seeks special leave to appeal to the High Court over Apco price fixing dismissal
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has sought special leave to appeal to the High...
  Issued: 8^th September 2005 Release # MR 225/05
• Federal Court declares WA commercial air conditioning companies engaged in cartel conduct
  The Federal Court in Perth has declared by consent that Admiral Mechanical Services Pty Ltd, Dire...
  Issued: 8^th September 2005 Release # MR 223/05
• ACCC alleges timber merchants' price-fixing cartel
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings in the Federal Cour...
  Issued: 18^th August 2005 Release # MR 201/05
• Full Federal Court upholds Apco appeal against price fixing
  The Full Federal Court today upheld the appeal of Apco Service Stations Pty Ltd against an earlie...
  Issued: 17^th August 2005 Release # MR 199/05
• ACCC discontinues some proceedings against alleged price fixing
  On 15 August 2005, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission discontinued proceedings ag...
  Issued: 16^th August 2005 Release # MR 197/05
• ACCC begins proceedings for alleged petrol price-fix
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has begun legal proceedings alleging price-fix...
  Issued: 26^th May 2005 Release # MR 129/05
• Federal Court orders $23.3 million in penalties for petrol price-fixing
  Pecuniary penalties totalling $23.305 million were ordered by the Federal Court today for price-f...
  Issued: 17^th March 2005 Release # MR 067/05
• Property developer penalised for attempted price fix
  Property developer Anglo Estates Pty Ltd attempted to enter into price-fixing and other anti-comp...
  Issued: 27^th January 2005 Release # MR 015/05
• ACCC institutes against commercial air conditioning firms over alleged attempted price fixing/bid-rigging
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings in the Federal Cour...
  Issued: 21^st December 2004 Release # MR 291/04
• Federal Court finds petrol price-fixing cartel
  A petrol price-fixing cartel had existed amongst petroleum distributors and retailers in the Ball...
  Issued: 17^th December 2004 Release # MR 290/04
• $485,000 penalties for NSW scrap metal bid-rigging cartel
  Five companies and nine individuals have been penalised a total of $485,000 for cartel behaviour ...
  Issued: 9^th December 2004 Release # MR 273/04
• Mcmahon Services and other demolition and asbestos removal companies required to pay penalties of more than $500,000 for price fixing
  Penalties totalling $535,625 have been imposed by the Federal Court on McMahon Services Pty Ltd, ...
  Issued: 4^th November 2004 Release # MR 241/04
• Agricultural consultants' fees in WA now fully negotiable
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has accepted court enforceable undertakings fr...
  Issued: 15^th September 2004 Release # MR 200/04
• George Weston Foods penalised $1.5 million for attempted price fix
  George Weston Foods Limited has been penalised $1.5 million by the Federal Court after the compan...
  Issued: 25^th August 2004 Release # MR 175/04
• ACCC encourages whistle blowers to come forward
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's leniency policy has proven successful in bre...
  Issued: 24^th June 2004 Release # MR 100/04
• $1 million penalty for brick price-fix
  The Federal Court has ordered Bristile Operations, trading as Metro Brick, to pay a pecuniary pen...
  Issued: 9^th June 2004 Release # MR 094/04
• $25,000 penalty for manager's involvement in Chaste weight-loss product
  The Federal Court has ordered a former General Manager of Chaste Corporation to pay a personal pe...
  Issued: 7^th April 2004 Release # MR 056/04
• Proceedings instituted against property developer over alleged attempted price fixing
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings against Anglo Estat...
  Issued: 25^th March 2004 Release # MR 044/04
• Additional $85,000 for alcohol rehabilitation funding following court decision on N.T. price fixing agreement
  A further $85,000 will be provided towards alcohol rehabilitation as a result of Australian Compe...
  Issued: 10^th March 2004 Release # MR 032/04