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The FNE submits a complaint against Unilever Chile accusing abuse of dominance in the detergent [or washing powder] market | 04 / 04 / 2013
On April the 3th, 2013, the FNE submitted before the Competition Tribunal a complaint against Unilever Chile S.A. (Unilever) challenging exclusionary abuse of dominance practices in the detergent for laundry market. The complaint against Unilever –holder of detergent trademarks OMO, DRIVE, SKIP and RINSO – claims that the defendant has developed a strategy having the [...]
FNE presents perception survey conducted by Deloitte | 14 / 03 / 2013
At the end of last year the FNE commissioned to Deloitte the performance of a study on the perception that expert antitrust lawyers have of the deterrent effect of the institutions of antitrust in general and the FNE’s activity in particular. In addition, the study includes the interviewed lawyers’ evaluation of the FNE’s image concerning [...]
FNE filed a complaint against three bus operators in Copiapó | 12 / 03 / 2013
On March 6th, 2013, the FNE submitted a complaint before the Competition Tribunal (TDLC) against “Casther” (E. Alonso Castillo Compañía Limitada), “Expreso Caldera” (Cristian Valdés Cabrera) and “Buses Caldera” (Empresa de Transporte Caldera Sociedad Anónima), which celebrated and executed, since 2010, an agreement aimed at fixing sale prices of bus tickets for various types of [...]
Profesor Massimo Motta delivered a master class in Chile | 05 / 03 / 2013
Professor Massimo Motta, a prestigious academic and antitrust expert, will deliver an open master class titled “Practicas Exclusorias en Antitrust: Un enfoque económico” (Exclusionary Practices in Antitrust: An Economic Perspective). The event will take place tomorrow at 11:00 AM, in room P-309 of the Universidad de Chile’s Economics and Business Faculty. Professor Motta, invited by [...]
Chile’s Competition Tribunal rules against collective boycott by advertising agencies | 30 / 01 / 2013
On January 29th, 2013, Chile’s Competition Tribunal (TDLC) fined the Chilean Advertising Agencies’ Trade Association (ACHAP) and others, pursuant to the complaint filed by the Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE). In its ruling, the TDLC stated: “that the agencies infringed antitrust law through a collective boycott against the bidding processes initiated by Metro S.A. and Transbank [...]
TDLC grants its approval to a judicial settlement between the FNE and the parties of Cine Hoyts/Cinemundo, an already closed merger in the cinema exhibitors market | 15 / 01 / 2013
On January 15th, 2013, the Competition Tribunal approved a judicial settlement between the FNE and several contracting parties of CineHoyts/Cinemundo, a transaction involving the merger between two major cinema exhibitors in Chile. By virtue of the settlement, companies committed to make divestitures of assets in Estación Central (a Department in Santiago city) and Valparaíso city, [...]
