February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Konkurrensverket":
Business & Money: 8 Jul 11
Sweden's privately-owned pharmacies are suffering from financial troubles. The largest player on Sweden's pharmacy market, Apotek Hjärtat, has reported a loss of 358 million kronor ($56.4 million) after taxes, according to Swedish media reports.
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Business & Money: 9 Jun 11
Swedish dairy firms Arla and Milko have announced that they are in discussions over the terms of a merger in a move taken as a result of Milko's parlous finances.
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Business & Money: 10 Jan 11
UK pharmacy chain Alliance Boots has confirmed its imminent plans to enter the Swedish pharmacy market in the first quarter of this year.
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Business & Money: 3 Jan 11
State-owned Apoteket AB, which until summer 2009 was the only pharmacy operator in Sweden, still holds a special position in the market despite deregulation, according to a recent report.
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National: 25 Mar 10
Independent taxi drivers have blocked road routes in and out of Stockholm's main Arlanda airport in protest against new taxi system regulations introduced by the Civil Aviation Authority.
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National: 4 Oct 09
The Swedish Competition Authority has ruled that demands from local councils to ensure ethical standards of meat served in schools runs contrary to EU regulations.
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Business & Money: 22 Sep 09
Competition authorities are looking into whether the division of the Sweden's new 4G network by the country's five big mobile operators may have been an attempt to exclude other players from entering the market.
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Business & Money: 24 Aug 09
Swedish state-owned pharmacy chain Apoteket has confirmed that it plans to cooperate with supermarket chain Ica over the in-store sale of non-prescription and prescription drugs.
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Business & Money: 26 Jun 09
Scandinavian dairy producer Arla Foods faces more than 7 billion kronor ($900 million) in fines if the company is found to have breached laws ensuring fair competition.
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Business & Money: 24 Jun 09
Scandinavian dairy producer Arla Foods was engaged in a plan to “completely shut competing companies out of the market”, Swedish competition authorities allege.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 09
Swedish competition authorities raided offices of Arla Foods on Tuesday to investigate whether the Scandinavian dairy producer had entered into an illegal agreement with the Coop grocery chain.
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Business & Money: 19 May 08
Norwegian media company Schibsted has stirred the pot in the Swedish free newspaper market, causing Aftonbladet to ditch its free sister paper Punkt SE.
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Business & Money: 8 Aug 07
The remaining cinemas belonging to Astoria Cinemas, Sweden's second largest cinema chain, have been taken over by a subsidiary of SF, the country's largest movie theatre operator.
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Business & Money: 6 Aug 07
The Swedish Competition Authority has appealed to the courts to award stiffer fines to several of the companies found guilty last month of involvement in a major asphalt cartel.
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Business & Money: 10 Jul 07
Several of Sweden's largest construction companies - Skanska, NCC, Vägverket Produktion and Peab - have been ordered to pay heavy fines for their involvement in a major price-fixing scandal.
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National: 10 Jul 07
The Swedish Competition Authority has called for fines amounting to 1.2 billion kronor to be charged to Skanska, NCC, Peab and Vägverket Produktion for their involvement in a high-profile cartel case.
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Business & Money: 3 Jul 07
The Swedish Competition Authority (Konkurrensverket) has given the all-clear for the establishment of a new media conglomerate in central Sweden.
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Politics: 4 Apr 07
The leaders of the four governing parties have announced a package of measures to encourage more Swedes to get back to work.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 07
Less red tape, more competition and labour market liberalization are the ingredients required if Sweden is to maintain its high standards of social welfare, according to a new report.
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Smörgåsbord: 28 Jan 05
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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