May 2012

Coles revamps Fly Buys. Not everyone happy about it: then and now...

CIRR_website_update_campaigns_May_1.12.pddf PDF document 22Kb


May 2011

The Productivity Commission's draft report February 2011 into Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning and Development Assessments drew this response from Mitre10.

Mitre_10_Response_to_PC Report.pdf PDF document 151KB


14 April 2011

NARGA responds to the draft report of the Productivity Commission in 2011 re Planning, Zoning and Development Assessments

Productivity_Commission-Planning2.doc Word document 52Kb


20 July 2010

National Association of Retail Grocers Australia makes its submission to the Productivity Commission's review of planning processes

Productivity_Commission-Planning.doc Word document 253Kb


16th July 2010

Floor space dominance test promoted by supermarket independents

Independent Retailers of NSW and ACT Inc make submission to Productivity Commission and promote floor space dominance test

Sub_Prod_Commision-1.doc Word document


Retail Outlet Centres: a centre by any other name

Milton Cockburne, Executive Director of the Shopping Centre Council of Australia writes in Property Council of Australia's website, 2006

http://www.propertyoz.com.au/Article/NewsDetail.aspx?p=56&mid=407


2010

The Dangers of Chains: CIRR's DVD series parts 2 and 3.

British MPs' Bob Russell Liberal Democrat and David Amess, Conservative explain their views of the UK House of Commons All Partty Review: "High Street Britain 2015" and comment on their perceived Dangers of Chains in the UK in a timely alert to Australian legislators and planners.



July 2009

HIGH STREET BRITAIN: 2015
House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group

The UK House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Report into the future of High Street retailing

High_Street_Britain-2015_HoC_report_infull_050206.pdf PDF document
510kb


July 2009

Woolworths and Coles: bad news for consumers, disastrous for business
ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
BY MR JOHN CUMMINGS, CHAIRMAN
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RETAIL GROCERS OF AUSTRALIA

Cummings-NARGA_address_to_NPC.pdf PDF document
108kb


July 2009

A Green Woolworths?

Anti_Woolies_ad_260208.pdf PDF document
755kb


20 November 2008

Parliamentary Small Shops Group, a cross party committee of the House of Commons, February 2006 , The Report High Street Britain: 2015. Extracts from 92 page Report edited by Tactical Matters Limited

Download report as MS Word word document 128kb


FEBRUARY 2006

UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (Somerfield) Feb 2006. An appeal case of forced divestment of supermarkets upon a chain take-over is upheld because of competition dimunition.

Somerfield_vs_Competition_Commission.pdf Somerfield_vs_Competition_Commission.pdf 182Kb


JANUARY 2006

Calling the shots - UK Friends of the Earth examine the power of the chains to get their way in planning issues

calling_the_shots.pdf calling_the_shots.pdf 462Kb


2006

Ensuring a Future for Independent Businesses,
Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
and author of the Big Box Swindle.

Ensuring_Business_for_Indep_Retailers.pdf Ensuring_Business_for_Indep_Retailers.pdf 77Kb


JUNE 2003

Merger Inquiries: Remedies Statement UK Competition Commission inquiry into chain supermarket merger considerations.

UK_Safeway_issues.pdf UK_Safeway_issues.pdf 198Kb


2003

Ghost Town Britain II - Death on the High Street
The New Economics Foundation

GhostTown_II.pdf Somerfield_vs_Competition_Commission.pdf 918Kb