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On 15 July 2009, the ACCC accepted the undertaking of Steven William Bowers, a director of Toll Holdings Ltd and/or its related bodies corporate. Under the undertaking Steven William Bowers agrees to sell down any interest he has in Asciano Limited and thereafter maintain his independence from Asciano. In addition, Steven William Bowers must immediately resign from all positions within Toll, and take no further part in the company if he ceases to meet the requisite standards of independence. The undertaking is associated with the fifth variation, accepted by the ACCC on 18 April 2007, to the undertaking given by Toll to the ACCC on 11 March 2006. The fifth variation relates to Toll’s restructure of its group businesses by way of scheme of arrangement to create a new listed entity and trust, Asciano. The ACCC's decision to consent to the fifth variation is given effect through the following documents: a variation to Toll's undertakings a new undertaking from Asciano Limited new undertakings from the directors of Toll and Asciano. A copy of those documents can be viewed on the ACCC’s website.

AMV Holding Limited (UK Company number 05811953) (AMV) is a mobile premium services content service provider. Its products are advertised in youth magazines in Australia under the name “Bling”. The matter was settled by consent on 7 April 2009.

Direct Savings Stones Corner Pty Ltd (Direct Savings SC) operates a discount variety store located in Stones Corner in Brisbane which retails a wide variety of discount consumer goods, including elastic luggage straps. In a section 87B undertaking accepted by the ACCC,  Direct Savings SC acknowledges that it contravened section 65C(1)(a) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 by supplying two types of "Boboriyong" elastic luggage straps without a warning label as required by regulation 11C of the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations 1979. The non-compliant products were supplied between 22 September 2008 and 15 December 2008 to consumers. Direct Savings SC immediately arranged for the products to be withdrawn from its stores. It voluntarily published a product safety recall notice in the Courier Mail newspaper on 17-18 January 2009, and displayed a copy of the product safety recall notice in its store for two months. Under the court enforceable undertaking Direct Savings SC has agreed to ensure that each product it supplies complies with any relevant consumer product safety standard, and to implement a Trade Practices Compliance Program.

Direct Savings Pty Ltd (Direct Savings) operates a discount variety store located in the Brisbane CBD, which retails a wide variety of discount consumer goods, including elastic luggage straps. In a section 87B undertaking accepted by the ACCC,  Direct Savings acknowledges that it contravened section 65C(1)(a) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 by supplying two types of "Boboriyong" elastic luggage straps without a warning label as required by regulation 11C of the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations 1979. The non-compliant products were supplied between 22 September 2008 and 15 December 2008 to consumers. Direct Savings immediately arranged for the products to be withdrawn from its stores. It voluntarily published a product safety recall notice in the Courier Mail newspaper on 17-18 January 2009, and displayed a copy of the product safety recall notice in its store for two months. Under the court enforceable undertaking Direct Savings has agreed to ensure that each product it supplies complies with any relevant consumer product safety standard, and to implement a Trade Practices Compliance Program.

Spray Pave has acknowledged that it is likely to have breached the Trade Practices Act in:

I-Life Factory Pty Ltd (I-Life Factory) operates a discount variety store located in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane which retails a wide variety of discount consumer goods, including elastic luggage straps. In a section 87B undertaking accepted by the ACCC, I-Life Factory acknowledges that it contravened section 65C(1)(a) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 by supplying two types of "Boboriyong" elastic luggage straps without a warning label as required by regulation 11C of the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations 1979. The non-compliant products were supplied between 22 September 2008 and 15 December 2008 to consumers. I-Life Factory immediately arranged for the products to be withdrawn from its stores. It voluntarily published a product safety recall notice in the Courier Mail newspaper on 17-18 January 2009, and displayed a copy of the product safety recall notice in its store for two months. Under the court enforceable undertaking I-Life Factory has agreed to ensure that each product it supplies complies with any relevant consumer product safety standard, and to implement a Trade Practices Compliance Program.