All Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) articles – Page 2
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Comment & Opinion
Retailers shoot themselves in the foot supporting AHDB meat campaign
By signing up to Let’s Eat Balanced, retailers are flouting their own climate commitments and promises to their customers, says Liam Lysaght, campaigner for diets and climate change at Feedback Global
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News
Morrisons sells forecourts in £2.5bn deal to pay down debt pile
MFG and Morrisons, which are both owned by private equity FIRM Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), confirmed today they had entered into an agreement with the sites
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News
CMA backs proposals for tighter unit pricing rules for retailers
Last week the Department for Business and Trade published proposals to amed the regulation that determines how retailers display unit prices
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News
CMA begins investigation into supermarket loyalty prices
The probe will explore whether loyalty prices offered by supermarkets are “genuine promotions” and “as good a deal as presented”
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Comment & Opinion
The CMA is reviewing its merger process. Here’s what it means
The CMA has made meaningful changes to its phase two process for the first time in a decade, say Tom Clare, managing associate, antitrust & foreign investment, and Mona Zhang, trainee solicitor, antitrust & foreign investment at Linklaters
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Comment & Opinion
Is CMA’s Unilever greenwashing probe another ‘profiteering’ bust in the making?
Who knew CMA would be so bold as to single out behemoth Unilever as its first greenwashing test case?
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Comment & Opinion
What planet is the CMA on with its profiteering witch-hunt?
The CMA’s reports have as much insight as a five-year-old’s review of War & Peace, says Ged Futter, director of The Retail Mind
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Comment & Opinion
Far from landbanking, the CMA is criticising the supermarkets for selling off land
The CMA continues to find supermarkets at fault over illegal use of land, 13 years after ‘landbanking’ legislation came in
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Comment & Opinion
Retailers are breaking HFSS rules without consequence
Our report found stores displaying sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks in prominent areas, says Beth Bradshaw, project manager at Food Active
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News
Morrisons has ‘worst compliance seen yet’ with competition rules on land deals, finds CMA
Morrisons was found to have 55 land deals that breached the rules, while M&S had 10
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Analysis & Features
What the CMA profiteering report means for suppliers
Despite catching a few ‘bad guys’, the CMA’s report clears food manufacturers of the profiteering accusations levelled at them
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Comment & Opinion
Poor maths and anti-brand bias are the flaws in the CMA’s new report
The clumsy and manipulative presentation of the CMA’s findings left the door open to unwarranted criticism of brands, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & Opinion
Is the CMA’s 94-page profiteering report just smoke and mirrors?
The authority has found the vast majority of businesses have seen profit margins squeezed rather than inflated
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News
CMA finds brands hiked prices above cost rises but clears industry of profiteering
The Competition & Markets Authority named baked beans as an area where “prices have risen by more than production costs, leading to increases in unit profitability”
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Category Report
How to avoid the ASA’s ire
As George the bear knows, navigating advertising rules is fraught with danger for booze suppliers. So, how can they get it right?
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Comment & Opinion
The fuel price dilemma: unpacking the pressures on petrol retailers
It’s a frustrating case of déjà vu for petrol retailers, particularly the independents, who have again been accused of failing to pass on reduced fuel prices to drivers
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Comment & Opinion
Big Vape: the Rise and Fall of Juul is a cautionary tale for UK
None of the lessons from the US appear to have been learned either by the government or the industry
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Comment & Opinion
An open letter to the CMA: your profiteering accusations are damaging
I wish to highlight a concern about the approach taken in the report on suppliers, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & Opinion
The CMA will find deducing evidence of profiteering enormously difficult to prove
The Competition & Markets Authority is expected to complete the second phase in its enquiry into ‘profiteering’ this autumn. It will be fascinating to see how it approaches the task
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News
Whitby Seafoods abandons Kilhorne Bay acquisition plans
The scampi supplier said resources required to engage in the next phase of the investigation were ‘out of proportion to any potential benefit from the deal’