Tag: Accc

A range of Nurofen products are under the spotlight of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, with allegations of misleading marketing and false claims.

iiNet has been ordered a penalty of $204,000 after it was found recent advertisements failed to prominently state the total minimum price of their Naked Broadband 250GB Plan.

Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson has introduced the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, launched to safeguard commercial dealings between Australian retailers, wholesalers and suppliers.

The first quarterly report into the Australian petroleum industry for 2015 has been released by the ACCC, revealing a price decrease to 109.2 cents per litre in the month of January – the lowest monthly average since 2009.

The ACCC is highlighting cartel conduct in government procurement, truth in advertising, competition and consumer issues in the health sector and industry codes as some of its compliance and enforcement priorities in 2015.

The ACCC is continuing to target energy retailers misleading customers, this time penalising Simply Energy for allegedly misleading door-to-door sales misconduct.

Origin Energy Limited and two of its subsidiaries will have to pay a penalty of $325,000 after the Federal Court of Australian found the company guilty of making false or misleading representations.

Fisher & Paykel and Domestic & General will have to pay a penalty of $200,000 each after the Federal Court declared they had made false or misleading representation when offering extended warranty to customers.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be releasing eight reports monitoring petrol prices and the movements of the overall fuel market in 2015.

The ACCC continues to crack down on egg suppliers that may be misleading customers with ‘free range’ claims.