Slotting: Fair for Small Business and Consumers? : Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, September 14, 1999, Volume 4 |
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acquisition advertising agreements Ahold analysis anticompetitive antitrust laws average brands brokers buying chain and independent CHAIN-STORE INVESTIGATION Chairman BOND Clayton Act commerce companies competing competition competitors consolidation cooperative corporation cost Court customers discounts and allowances distribution divestiture drug economic effect efficiencies enforcement exclusionary exclusive Federal Trade Commission FINAL REPORT firms Fred Meyer grocery chains grocery industry grocery stores Guidelines increase independent distributors industry member issue Keller and Heckman Kesko/Tuko manufacturers market power marketplace merchandise monopoly operating Pathmark payments percent potential power buyers practices price discrimination private label private label products product introductions profit prohibits promotional proposed purchase regulations REPORT OF CHAIN-STORE Robinson-Patman Act Senator KERRY shelf space Sherman Act slotting allowances slotting fees small business smaller sold Stop & Shop supercenters supermarket chains supermarket mergers suppliers supra note tion U.S. antitrust vertical agreements Wal-Mart Washington wholesalers
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Page 347 - ... no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, that whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
Page 152 - That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality...
Page 342 - ... unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality, where either or any of the purchases involved in such discrimination are in commerce, where such commodities are sold for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any...
Page 496 - That for the purposes of this Act the commission, or its duly authorized agent or agents, shall at all reasonable times have access to, for the purpose of examination, and the right to copy any documentary evidence of any corporation being investigated or proceeded against...
Page 345 - ... file with the commission in such form as the commission may prescribe annual or special, or both annual and special, reports or answers in writing to specific questions, furnishing to the commission such information as it may require as to the organization, business, conduct, practices, management, and relation to other corporations, partnerships, and individuals of the respective corporations filing such reports or answers in writing.
Page 315 - Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent discrimination in price between purchasers of commodities on account of differences in the grade, quality, or quantity of the commodity sold, or that makes only due allowance for difference in the cost of selling or transportation, or discrimination in price in the same or different communities made in good faith to meet competition...
Page 340 - ... between the company owning the branch line so constructed and the company owning the main line acquiring the property or an interest therein, nor to prevent such common carrier from extending any of its lines through the medium of the acquisition of stock or otherwise of any other...
Page 340 - ... from acquiring or owning all or any part of the stock of such branch lines, nor to prevent any such common carrier from acquiring and owning all or any part of the stock of a branch or short line constructed by an independent company where there is no substantial competition between the company owning the branch line so constructed and the company owning the main line acquiring the property or an interest therein...
Page 353 - That a trust is a combination of capital, skill, or acts by two or more persons...
Page 351 - The General Assembly of this State shall have no power to authorize any corporation to buy shares, or stock, in any other corporation in this State, or elsewhere, or to make any contract, or agreement whatever, with any such corporation, which may have the effect, or be intended to have the effect, to defeat or lessen competition in their respective businesses, or to encourage monopoly ; and all such contracts and agreements shall be illegal and void.