Regardless of the outcome of the court actions against Woolworths and Coles, it's clear that Australia's politicians are the true impediment to consumer protections.

Businesses don't operate in a bubble -- their sales and profitability are affected by the business environment in which they operate. Many factors affect this environment, from regulation and ...

(Bloomberg) — The Bank of Canada’s second in command called the country’s banking system an “oligopoly,” using the sector as a key example of how limited competition is restricting growth. Speaking in ...

Abstract: Under the influence of “the Belt and Road Initiative” launched by Chinese Government, many Chinese oligopoly enterprises begin to select certain international partners and transfer some ...

Eugene Lang is the acting director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. An estimated half a million Canadians – myself included – have just experienced the most egregious excesses of ...

Damp carpet and old coffee. That is how a perfumier might have described the “top notes”—industry speak for the initial olfactory experience—at SIMPPAR, the annual fragrance-ingredient expo held this ...

Retail market structure refers to the number of companies that sell similar or identical products in the same geographical area. An oligopoly describes a small group of companies that collude to raise ...

Five major Dutch fishing companies have been accused of forming a powerful oligopoly that dominates European fishing, according to two new investigations published by environmental group Bloom. The ...

For those who don’t know, an oligopoly is a situation in which a small number of companies dominate the market, and to answer the question posed in the title, that’s exactly what we have in the ...

South Africa’s fresh produce market agents are operating as an oligopoly that must be broken because it is impeding competition. Blue chip property owners, meanwhile, must transform shopping malls by ...

Media investor Jeff Sagansky predicted that the top four streaming companies are on the precipice of “great profitability” and have effectively formed a new entertainment oligopoly, even though ...