( September 9, 2025, 03:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Investment company Mutuelle du Nickel has been fined for failing to respect the terms of competition conditions imposed on Les Opticiens Mutualistes, a glasses retailer in French Polynesia. The Autorité de la concurrence de la Nouvelle-Calédonie announced a “symbolic penalty” of 450,000 CFP ($4,410) against the investor, which has accepted conditions that it would keep its glasses shop closed one day a week, to coincide with the operations of a neighboring ophthalmologist. The ACNC has imposed injunctions on the shop’s future operations. The Mutuelle du Nickel is a fund originally established to offer social assistance to workers in the French territory’s nickel mine.The Autorité de la concurrence de la Nouvelle-Calédonie's decision, in French, is attached; its full statement follows: ...
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