Switzerland’s Comco to investigate companies in gravel sector

Comco, the Swiss competition commission, has launched a new probe into companies in the gravel sector and the sector for inert material landfill. The companies being investigated are Kieswerk Heimberg, Kieswerk Steinigand, Kiestag, Kieswerk Daepp, Kästli Bau, K. & U. Hofstetter, Messerli Kieswerk and Kies Aaretal. Comco said it is looking into whether these firms had taken part in a cartel.

January 19, 2015 Read time: 1 min

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EC cement cartel probe data request quashed by Europe’s top court

A group of leading cement makers has won a battle with the European Commission over excessive data requested by the Commission for a cartel investigation.

As part of the near-five-year-probe closed in mid-2015 due to insufficient evidence, the Commission had visited the companies and later asked them to complete a questionnaire, while suspecting them of possibly restricting imports into the EU, and divvying up markets and coordinating prices.

In 2014, companies including Lafarge, Holcim, Cemex, Heide

March 30, 2012

German concrete cartel investigation launched

March 7, 2012

OFT investigates Lafarge and Anglo American merger

Competition concerns have put the brakes on the proposed Anglo American and Lafarge merger. Robert Camp looks at the issues. The decision by the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to refer the proposed construction materials joint venture between Anglo American and Lafarge to the competition authorities will not have come as a surprise to industry watchers.