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Barclays wins case on PPI reforms
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
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The Competition Commission will have to reconsider its proposal to ban the sale of a controversial insurance product alongside credit deals after it lost a legal challenge to its plans brought by Barclays Bank. The regulator announced earlier this year...
Tags: payment protection, alongside credit, The Competition Commission, PPI, credit cards, protection insurance
Live Nation deal with Ticketmaster blocked
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The "mega-merger" between Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation was thrown into doubt yesterday when UK regulators blocked the deal on anti-competitive grounds. The Competition Commission provisionally ruled against the proposed $2.5bn (£1.5bn)...
Tags: Ticketmaster-Live Nation, Live Nation Inc., competitive commission, The Competition Commission, Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., provisionally rules, live music, cts eventim, proposed merger, commission provisionally
Commission defies supermarkets over ombudsman
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
Credibility Britain's competition watchdog insisted that supermarkets should be independently regulated after finding evidence they abused their dominance by acting aggressively towards suppliers. In a blow to the Big Four chains, the Competition Commission recommended...
Tags: UK Competition Commission, The Competition Commission, Britain
Competition Commission probes supermarkets
Cape Town :: South Africa | 5 months ago
Credibility The Competition Commission has initiated an investigation into major South African supermarket chains for possible contraventions of the Competition Act, it said on Monday. These chains included Pick n Pay, Shoprite-Checkers, Woolworths and Spar, the...
Comp Commission shifts focus to cement sector
Cape Town :: South Africa | 5 months ago
Credibility Building and construction materials producer Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) on Thursday advised that the Competition Commission had conducted a search-and-seizure operation at the premises of the major cement manufacturers.
BAA told to sell Gatwick and Stansted
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility BAA ordered to sell off Gatwick and Stansted • Airport expansion project likely to face further delay • Warning that sale may not clear group's pile of debt The Competition Commission further disrupted the government's airport expansion programme yesterday...
Tags: BAA, The Competition Commission, Gatwick Airport, Stansted • Airport, Glasgow, Edinburgh
Watchdog orders BAA to sell three airports
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility The Competition Commission today ordered BAA to sell three of its airports. In its final report into the airport operator, the Competition Commission (CC) said Spanish-owned BAA had to dispose of Gatwick and Stansted airports as well as either Glasgow...
Tags: BAA, Stansted Competition Commission, Gatwick, The Competition Commission, London Summit, North London, airport operator, Edinburgh, trade finance, U.K
Project Kangaroo blocked by Competition Commission
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility The beleaguered venture, which late last year lost chief executive Ashley Highfield barely four months into the job , has been deemed to pose to much of a threat to competition in the nascent UK video-on-demand market. The Competition Commission, which...
Tags: THE Competition Commission, competitive commission, BBC Worldwide and Channel, ITV PLC, joint venture, Channel Four Television Corp., Project Kangaroo
BAA told to sell three airports
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility The watchdog says the decision is subject to a final consultation but is necessary to improve levels of service at UK airports. In August, the watchdog had said BAA may have to sell three of its airports because of a lack of competition. Several firms...
Tags: Gatwick, BAA, Edinburgh Airport, Stansted, Competition Commissioner, The Competition Commission, Heathrow, Crawley, Glasgow Airport, sell gatwick
BAA slammed again by competition watchdog
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility BAA, the airport operator which runs seven of the UK’s biggest airports, has been criticised again by the Competition Commission. In a report into Stansted Airport, the hub of several low-budget airlines, the Commission said that BAA acted against the...
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