DTI supermarket guidelines receive a cool reception_2
19 July 2012
Interpretations of “reasonable conduct” will make or break the Department of Trade and Industry’s proposed guidelines on supplier relationships with the food sector, according to both supermarkets and suppliers.
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said its draft code, announced earlier this month, is “less prescriptive” than the DTI’s initial recommendations. It will apply to Somerfield, Tesco, Asda, Safeway and Sainsbury’s, whose buying practices were creating a “complex monopoly situation”, according to last year’s Competition Commission report.
The OFT draft was...