Essays on Antitrust

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Takeover of SABMiller

The global beer industry, which has been growing steadily for almost a century now, is filled with variety. There are many types of beer that vary in flavor, production technique, ingredients, color, alcohol levels, and geographic origin. Also, the many brands vary greatly as well. Some brands dominate global beer markets, while other brands are very local - and everything in between. Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller were two of the largest global dominating beermaker companies in existence. Together, they produced around 30% of all beer sold world-wide. The idea of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller merging was simply astonishing. When ...

I. Introduction The ubiquitous presence of mobility devices, including most notably smartphones, highlights how mobility has come to be integral to everyday life at workplace, college and home. The major focus on mobility is, given current coverage, is on applications and cloud platforms. Less reported still but is, probably, of much more significance, as shown later, is wireless licenses and applications which enable much of current mobility operational efficiency, if not operability at all. As is always common in ICT innovations, user interface applications and platforms more often than not draw ICT community's attention, a community focused more new ...

a) Antitrust authorities at the Federal Trade Commission are reviewing your company’s recent merger with a rival firm. The FTC is concerned that the merger of two rival firms in the same market will increase market power. A hearing is scheduled for your company to present arguments that your firm has not increased its market power through this merger. Can you do this? How? What evidence might you bring to the hearing? In order to prove to the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) that the recent merger between two companies will not increase the market power, we will be ...

Abstract

The report focuses on the market analysis for Redbox Automated Retail, LLC. The company provides customers with Blu-ray, video game, and DVD rentals through a variety of automated retail kiosks/self-care kiosks located in various convenience, drug, and grocery stores. The main clienteles for the company include the gamers, family oriented renters, and youth renters. The company uses its different automated retail kiosks in meeting the customer demands of speed, cutting-edge technology, reasonable prices, new releases, and convenience. The environmental factors that affect the way Redbox Company conducts its business include the laws and regulations in the DVD, game, and ...

Does the Dominance of the Big Four Supermarkets Hinder and Damage Competition and What is in the Best Interest of the Consumer?

Introduction

Competition is the best way of ensuring the interest of market stakeholders (Stucke, 2013). Competition in the UK grocery sector has become an issue with the big four supermarkets controlling around 71.7 percent of the market. As of the end of 2015, the individual market shares of the big four supermarkets are 27.9 percent for Tesco, 16.6 percent for J Sainsbury’s, 16.4 percent for Asda, and 10.8 percent for Morrisons (Kantar World Panel, 2016). The UK ...

Introduction

Throughout this discussion, we will analyze the history of life insurance companies, any major events which impacted the life insurance industry, including the Great Recession of 2007 which lasted for two years, rules or regulations proposed by Congress that govern the present operation of life insurance companies, including any changes of insurance laws, the current Presidential candidates plan on implementing for the life insurance industry and future expectations of the operational life insurance environment.

History

The life insurance industry began in the ancient city of Rome around 100 B.C. The Roman militant leader named Caius Marius, had created a certain ...

Describe civil and criminal penalties that might arise from Ima’s death

Under the provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA) 1970, all employers are responsible for creating adequately safe working environment (Pinnington, Macklin & Campbell, 2007). The possibilities of employee contact with uninsulated wire is a situation, when life of this employee becomes jeopardized, as well as there is a possibility of getting serious bodily damages. In this case, the affected employee, or the family members are entitled to claiming general damages from the employee. Furthermore, because the omissions of Walexron are conspicuously blatant (uninsulated wire obviously poses a huge hazard to the employee and visitors of the facility) ...

Introduction

Regulation of the activity of the business units is not new branch of the law. In fact, the local authorities in different jurisdictions attempt to exercise control over the performance over the companies by virtue of the adoption of different regulations. However, the commercial practices shows that this activity is not always efficient due to the fact that the companies refer to the supplementary instruments suitable for the completion economic growth in the market. This implies that several organizations usually enter special horizontal or vertical agreements in terms of the competition legislation that may be prosecuted by the authorities. ...

Competition law is a topic that is subject to thought. Different countries have different ways of looking at issues regarding competition. Competition is considered healthy in businesses when the competitors maintain and solely focus on their products hence making no publicity concerning their competitors. The way issues are regarded in the United Kingdom (UK) is not similar to how the United States of America (USA) handle their problems. Technology is viewed as a different industry, especially when it comes to matters concerning the competition. Google is one of the contenders of this. Since the USA competition law appears to ...

Introduction

The first antitrust law was formed by the Congress in the year 1890. It was referred to as Sherman Act, and its aim was to ensure that there was economic liberty, by ensuring that the competition in the trade was fair. Later, the Congress passed other two antitrust laws in the year 1914, and these additional laws contained some revision to the first antitrust law. Those laws were the Clayton Law and the Federal Trade Commission Act. The court applies the antitrust law to prevent illegal business practices and unlawful mergers. The main objective of the antitrust law is ...

Back in the 1800s, the American economy was controlled by several large businesses commonly known as "trusts." These companies controlled every aspect of the economy; railroads, steel, oil, and sugar. Industrialist such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie who owned the oil and steel industries during the 1800s were monopolies and controlled both the supply of their products and prices without any governmental interference (Clark 20). As a result of monopoly, small businesses and individuals had limited choices of their buyers; they were forced to cope with the high prices and constant exploitation from the monopolized companies. The ...

Introduction

Just like his grandfather who was the ninth president of the U.S, Benjamin Harrison followed the in the footsteps on how his grandfather governed the country during his tenure from 1889 to 1893 as the 23rd president of the America. His election gave a confirmation that the White House demands a great personal skill and political expertise (Moore & Hale 13). Not meeting these attributes would stimulate a short-lived reign. During Benjamin’s administration, there wasendorsement of the protective tariffs that resulted in the increase of the consumable goods and considerably triggered the country’s economic despairs. Benjamin’s bold ...

An antitrust is a law governing business activities to ensure that there is fair competition between stakeholders and regulates prices of commodities. Google is a company situated in America that deals with the provision of Internet services and products. It is the owner of products like Google Chrome, Android operating system, Google play store and services such Google search engine. Because it is an international company, the Federal Trade Commission watches it keenly so that the laws pertaining to the field is enforced in the United States. In the recent years, Google has fallen into trouble with the Federal ...

NCAA Governance

NCAA athletes should be paid to protect these student-athletes from being exploited by the universities to profit from commercial enterprises. The present set-up of NCAA is that it has three divisions namely, Division I, Division II, and Division III. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II universities and schools are allowed to offer scholarships to the student-athletes for playing a sport. For Division III, the universities or schools are prohibited to offer any athletic scholarships to the student-athletes under this category. Currently, the NCAA has prohibited the student-athletes to receive payment in whatever form for their athletic skills ...

Introduction

Boeing and Airbus are the two major aircraft manufacturers in the world, with their rivalry starting in the 1990s, and as it intensified, they absorbed other plane making companies or forced them to exit the market. Airbus, being a European consortium of companies headquartered in Toulouse France is the leading airplane manufacturer in Europe while Boeing is an American company which manufactures commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapon and electronic defense systems among other tasks. On the other hand, COMAC is a Chinese state-owned limited liability company that is mainly the manufacturer of commercial aircraft for China and also ...

Theft of trade secrets has emerged as one of the easier crimes for disgruntled, unethical, or unscrupulous and opportunistic employees to commit. These employees may which to harm their employer or wish to achieve some personal gain by selling or trading the trade secrets that they can obtain through the course of their trusted access to company systems. These thefts are most often committed by individuals who are looking for alternative employment for those who are looking to start their companies, all on the backs of the good work of their current and soon-to-be-former employer. These thefts can be ...

Price competition is the core element of a free-market economy. Firms and organizations have been engaging each other in pricing behaviors like price fixing, price collusion, predatory pricing, deceptive price advertising, price confusion, resale price maintenance, and price discrimination amongst others (Grewal, and Compeau 3). These practices concerning pricing have a great impact on the public welfare. As a result, the government has taken the position of implementing legislation and judicial policies that aim at regulating the price behaviors in organizations. Other agencies that monitor pricing include the federal and local government. According to Grewal, and Compeau (3), the ...

Individual Case Analysis

Introduction It is vital for an organization to have a strategy to maintain its existence and to develop into the future. The generic competitive strategy is a methodology that aims at providing companies with strategic plans that would help them compete and gain traction in their respective marketplaces. It is one of the primary techniques of business planning for organizations across all industries. A company that has a well laid out generic competitive strategy can make good use of its strengths to ensure that it is well positioned within the competition (Liu, Au, & Choi 332). This paper analyzes Google’ ...

Microsoft: Bully or Genius? Were the Antitrust Penalties against Microsoft Sufficient or not?

Since 1998, Microsoft has been involved in an antitrust lawsuit filed by the European Commission. Microsoft was initially charged with failing to provide interface code that would see competitors peg into its Windows server software at a rational price. The European Commission claimed the prices for accessing the code were extortionate, and this led to non-compliance. Microsoft won the law suit but later on in 2009 accused of allegedly bundling its own web browser- Internet Explorer- within its operating system (Kanter, 2012) According to Judge Jackson’s part of the establishment of facts in the Microsoft case, the company ...

Many multinational corporations have a problem balancing ethics and value maximization. However, Starbucks does not have a very large problem with it because the ethics and moral responsibility is apparent in their decision making. According to their Business Ethics and compliance statement, Starbucks believes that conducting business ethically and striving to do the right thing are vital to the success of the company . Since Starbucks is traditionally known for their overpriced coffee the consumer is paying for their moral choices nonetheless. However there are some examples of questionable decisions that have been reported.

Questionable Practices

Starbucks is extremely understood furthermore thought ...

The end of the 20th century had hinted towards the tremendous amount of technological advancement that had swept the entire century, eventually resulting in the emergence of newer global markets that are unique and different from the conventional industries as the newly emerged markets were driven by technological sophistication, boundless amount of knowledge, and numerous networks. The industries that became the drivers of the newly emerged global markets were related to the production of information goods like for example, content, software, or distinctive professional expertise. A few pertinent examples of such newly emerged industries are all the Internet-based businesses, ...

Antitrust Law: The Great Northern Railway

Introduction One of the wonders of the free market is that there are no restrictions when it comes to buying and selling products and services. However, this advantage comes at a cost as well. Due to total freedom, people and companies are theoretically free to impose whatever prices they dictate for the goods they sell, without regard to the welfare of their customers. This is exactly what happens in monopolies, wherein only one company holds the control of a certain commodity or service. Monopolies are usually seen as bad because they do not adhere to the laws of supply ...

The history of unions and strikes in America is a history of democratic struggles and successes in hopes of achieving change in the workplace. A union of workers was found necessary to achieve change in the workforce including improvements in conditions, attainment of the right to representation, inclusion of collection bargaining and ending bias and discrimination. Unions are democratic economic stabilizers benefiting both workers and the general public. Workers gained benefits from the formation of unions including pay, pensions, and healthcare, as well as grievance processes and holiday pay. Often times, however, many of these conditions were not achieved ...