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Consumer Goods
Acacia has worked across the value chain in this segment, including on manufacturing, wholesale and retail. It has worked on mergers, competition market inquiries, competition complaints and a damages case. This experience gives us a strong background from which to understand the competition issues in this sector and robust analysis and advice to our clients.
Acacia has had the opportunity to work in a range of different capacities to understand and give expert advice concerning this sector which positions us very well to assist our clients.
Some illustrative examples of our work include:
Provided expert advice for the Grocery Retail Market Inquiry for a retailer in South Africa
Provided expert advice on a competition complaint for a retailer in South Africa.
Assisted an independent wholesaler of personal care products with an abuse of dominance complaint.
Assisted a firm that retails and wholesales building materials with an abuse of dominance competition complaint
Assisted with an arbitration in the airline industry
Estimated damages in the sugar industry
Intermediate Goods & Services
Our economists have a deep understanding across many intermediate goods and service markets and have been involved in a number of landmark South African abuse of dominance cases in this sector.
Acacia has experience providing economic analysis for competition proceedings and trade disputes. For example, Acacia worked on:
Assisted a firm that retails and wholesales building materials with an abuse of dominance competition complaint
Assistance with the economic analysis of the animal feed sector for the Poultry Market Inquiry in Zambia
Assistance with competition complaints and trade disputes in two different building material industries in South Africa
Our economists have been involved in a range of notable abuse of dominance cases in the sector, such as the excessive pricing complaint against Mittal, various complaints against Sasol Chemical Industries, the ANSAC/Botash cartel case, and the SAB distribution case.
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