So, the “wide parity” clauses in OTA have been banned in India too, finally! The Competition Commission of India (CCI/Commission), vide its order dated 19.10.2022 has , after a detailed investigation and inquiry , held MakeMyTrip India Pvt. Ltd (MMT) guilty of abusing its dominant position in the market for online intermediation services for booking…
The attempt by three leading international volleyball players to teach their sport regulator, the Volleyball Federation of India (VFI), a lesson for its grant of long-term exclusive marketing rights for 10 years to a selected private consulting agency for arranging sponsorship etc for the international volleyball league tournaments in India have failed finally. The fair…
The Competition concerns in the automobile industry in India in general and in to vertical auto dealership arrangements between OEMs and their authorised dealers keep on emerging after India’s first landmark auto / car spare parts case filed by Shamsher Singh Kataria ( Shamsher Singh Kataria Case / auto/car Spare Parts Case) . The ratio…
CCI dismisses allegations of abuse of dominance and exclusive arrangements against Amazon in the menswear fashion retail market By way of order dated 11.09.2020, the Competition Commission of India (“Commission/CCI”) has dismissed allegations of: (i) abuse of dominance and (ii) concluding exclusive agreements with Amazon Export Sales LLC and Cloudtail India Pvt Ltd (“Cloudtail”) against…
CCI orders investigation into Amazon and Flipkart’s alleged exclusive tie ups and preferential terms with their respective preferred sellers Competition Commission of India (“CCI/Commission”), vide order dated 13.01.2020, has directed the Director General (“DG”) to investigate whether the alleged exclusive agreements, deep-discounting and preferential listing of a few select sellers by Amazon and Flipkart…
