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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“This involved sharing confidential information on pricing and commercial strategy and coordinating their commercial activities.”<\/p>\n
An investigation was launched in 2017 when Mabey blew the whistle and approached the CMA.<\/p>\n
Mabey has confessed its role and will not be fined in accordance with the CMA\u2019s leniency programme.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nGroundworks products include braces, props and sheeting and are used to protect excavations on a wide range of major building and civils developments, railway line works and water pipe upgrades.<\/p>\n
Michael Grenfell, the CMA\u2019s Executive Director for Enforcement, said: “These are three major suppliers of equipment used to keep construction workers safe.<\/p>\n
“It is crucial that builders and their customers benefit from genuinely competitive pricing for this essential equipment.”<\/p>\n
The CMA added: “Findings are, at this stage in the investigation, provisional and do not necessarily lead to a decision that the companies have breached competition law.<\/p>\n
“The firms now have the opportunity to consider the detail of the CMA\u2019s provisional findings and respond to it.<\/p>\n
“The CMA will carefully consider any representations made before issuing its final findings as to whether the law has been broken.”<\/p>\n
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