If a company’s staff exchange competitively-sensitive, confidential information – even at just one meeting – that risks a breach of competition law. Learn more about what you can do if approached to join a cartel or to get involved in anti-competitive arrangements.
According to the CMA’s latest research with UK businesses, understanding of competition law is still low, with the majority of businesses still not understanding competition law well.
If you feel you might have witnessed an illegal business cartel, do the right thing and help us stop cartels by reporting them to us on our 'Cheating or Competing?' website. Protecting customers and ensuring businesses don’t collude to distort …
I have two main functions here at the CMA. I head up our Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis professional group and I am our senior champion for Wellbeing and Mental Health. I find both roles challenging and rewarding and each …
Joint ventures have a lot of appeal and for good reason. When businesses join forces they can pool goods, services and funds to help them innovate and achieve commercial success that they couldn’t otherwise do alone. This is especially true …
Are you a member of an industry of trade association? If so, you should check you and your association are playing by the right rules. The constitutions, decisions and recommendations of trade associations and how their members behave have …
We’ve developed a free software tool that can help you screen tender data for those tell-tale signs that a bid might not be all it seems.
Stephen Blake, head of the CMA’s Cartels & Criminal Group, explains how recent cartel cases can be a lesson to all on how to keep out of trouble.
Competition is vital. It forces businesses to keep prices low and look for innovative ways of operating; and it ensures that consumers benefit from the best deals, cheapest prices and most efficient service.
I recently listened to a brilliant podcast called ‘Start-up’. Unsurprisingly, it’s about a guy who’s starting his own business.