RETAIL PRICES
Changes in policy (N.Z. Press Association) MELBOURNE, March 21. Six more Australian companies agreed today to abandon retail price fixing practices in regard to Bourke’s Melbourne Pty, Ltd.
A spokesman for the Australian Council of Trade Unions told Reuter that the companies were Julius Marlow Pty, Ltd, Singer (Aust.), Ltd, Crestkit (Aust.), Ltd, Invicta Blankets Pty, Ltd, Sheraton Textiles Pty, Ltd, and Austico Ties Pty, Ltd. The spokesman said that negotiations were continuing with other textile makers, including John Brown, Fitwear, Gio-weave, Laconia, Onkaparinga, Pelaco and Whitmont, and other textile makers, including shoe manufacturers. He said the A.C.T.U. had been given “definite indications” of “very favourable reactions” to requests for abandonment of retail price maintenance practices. The president of the A.C.T.U., Mr Robert J. Hawke, spent Friday approaching companies about this issue, after a statement yesterday from Dunlop Australia, Ltd, that it and its subsidiaries would drop retail price maintenance policies that had affected Bourke’s store.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32562, 23 March 1971, Page 17
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