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Australian brick manufacturer Brickworks takes rival BGC to court over alleged anticompetitive conduct

By Ryan Cropp ( February 22, 2024, 04:32 GMT | Insight) -- Two of Australia's biggest building-materials empires will go head-to-head in court in 2025, after Brickworks Ltd and its subsidiary Austral Bricks accused rival BGC of anticompetitive conduct in the market for clay bricks in Western Australia. In documents filed with the Federal Court of Australia and seen by MLex, Brickworks and Austral allege that BGC engaged in predatory pricing from November 2017 to September 2021, while also breaching competition law through its purchase of Midland Brick in April 2021. Brickworks court filings allege that its May 2023 decision to close its subsidiary Austral Bricks, and thus its entire brickmaking operation in Western Australia, was a consequence of BGC’s predatory pricing — and will ultimately leave BGC as the sole provider of bricks to the Western Australian market.Two of Australia's biggest building-materials empires will go head-to-head in court in 2025, after Brickworks Ltd and its subsidiary Austral Bricks accused rival BGC of anticompetitive conduct in the market for clay bricks in Western Australia, or WA....

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