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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 Direct Savings immediately arranged for the products to be withdrawn from its stores.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 I-Life Factory immediately arranged for the products to be withdrawn from its stores.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.

On 11 February 2009, the ACCC announced its decision to oppose the proposed acquisition of Bartter Enterprises Pty Ltd by Baiada Poultry Pty Ltd on the basis that it was likely to substantially lessen competition in markets for the wholesale supply of processed chicken meat. To address the ACCC's competition concerns, Baiada offered an undertaking under section 87B of the Trade Practices Act, which the ACCC has accepted. Baiada has agreed to divest certain assets to La Ionica Poultry.

On 19 June 2009 in the Federal Court in Brisbane, Justice Logan handed down orders against Craftmatic Australia Pty Ltd (Craftmatic), a door-to-door seller of adjustable beds. The Orders made by consent declare that Craftmatic, between August 2005 and at least 1 June 2008, in its marketing and selling techniques of adjustable beds to mainly elderly consumers, was both unconscionable in contravention of section 51AB of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (the Act), and was also misleading and deceptive in contravention of section 52 of the Act. The Court has ordered injunctions for a period of seven years against Craftmatic, restraining it from a wide range of conduct that was found to be misleading and unconscionable. Craftmatic has also provided a court enforceable undertaking to the ACCC that it will review its business practices and methods to ensure that they comply with the Act. This involves Craftmatic appointing a legal practitioner with trade practices experience to review any form, script or instruction (any document) that Craftmatic intends to employ as part of its Compliance Manual. Craftmatic will then not be able to use any document to sell beds or to train representatives to sell beds on its behalf that does not form part of the Compliance Manual. The undertaking also provides that Craftmatic must conduct trade practices training for all new employees and retraining of existing employees in accordance with the Compliance Manual. The undertaking has effect for a period of seven years.

Super A-Mart is a furniture retailer, with 24 stores across Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.  It regularly promotes its sales via catalogues, television and radio advertisements. Some of Super A-Mart’s advertisements in 2007 contained representations which were qualified by fine print disclaimers which were not sufficiently prominent and were too imprecise to adequately qualify the representations. The ACCC considers Super A-Mart’s conduct may constitute misleading and deceptive conduct in contravention of section 52 of the Trade Practices Act.  Super A-Mart admits the conduct and acknowledges the ACCC’s concerns. Super A-Mart provided undertakings that it will: clearly label display stock as not for sale review the size of symbols used in its catalogues (such as asterisks) which are intended to refer consumers to qualifying terms and conditions located elsewhere in the catalogue review the wording used in disclaimers (written and oral) display public notices in store and on its website review and, if necessary, improve its internal Catalogue Review Process and TV and Radio Advertisement Review Process, to increase the accuracy and consistency of its advertising implement a Trade Practices Compliance Program, including Trade Practices training.

Undertakings given to the ACCC by Londy Pty Ltd trading as Purely Commercials, a dealer of light commercial vehicles in Western Australia concerning misleading representations about a tax benefit that applied to purchasers of vehicles displayed in an advertisement. On 22 February 2009, Londy published a full page advertisement featuring second hand vehicles that it had available for sale to the public in the CARSguide section of the Sunday Times newspaper.