{"id":77190,"date":"2025-10-14T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77190\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:59:09","slug":"aramex-and-gosweetspot-settle-cartel-conduct-proceedings-with-comcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77190\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramex and GoSweetSpot settle cartel conduct proceedings with ComCom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Separately, GoSweetSpot has admitted to entering into and giving effect to contractual arrangements that allocated customers between itself and another competitor in the courier services market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Both of the contracts were negotiated in the context of reseller\/carrier arrangements, the commission said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Aramex provides courier transportation services to customers, while GoSweetSpot is a reseller, which \u201cbrokers\u201d the provision of courier transportation services to customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Both resellers and carriers can compete for the same customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Cartel conduct is illegal under the Commerce Act 1986. A cartel is where two or more businesses agree not to compete with each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Cartel conduct can include price fixing, sharing markets, rigging bids or restricting output of goods and services. <\/p>\n<p>Listen and subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1049-today-in-business-287718209\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today in Business<\/a> podcast \u2013 the top headlines from the NZ Herald business team summarised and delivered by an AI voice as an easily digestible recap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Separately, GoSweetSpot has admitted to entering into and giving effect to contractual arrangements that allocated customers between itself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,60125,138,34599,60127,7520,2371,34749,11652,60128,60126,305,19136,111,139,69,34748,20488,1321,51177,12177,102,2963],"class_list":["post-77190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-and","tag-aramex","tag-business","tag-cartel","tag-comcom","tag-commerce","tag-commission","tag-conduct","tag-courier","tag-engaging","tag-gosweetspot","tag-have","tag-largest","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-proceedings","tag-reached","tag-services","tag-settle","tag-settlement","tag-with","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}