Franchise rale queried
PA Auckland The Consumers’ Institute has asked the Examiner of Trade Practices to investigate how Fislier and Paykel and McAlpine Prestcold stop their franchise shops, from stocking competitors’ brands. Mr R. J. Smithies, the' institute’s director, said that it was concerned that when a manufacturer already dominated the market, it might squeeze out new or smaller competitors by tying up choice retail stores. Fisher and Paykel supplies refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, and clothes driers through a network of franchise stores.
Mr Smithies said that the company’s agreement with those stores prohibited them from stocking competing brands. The managing director of McAlpine Prestcold, Mr L. C. Wimmers, would not comment. Mr Don Rowlands, the managing director of Fisher and Paykel, said that he could not understand why his company and the institute seemed to be in different corners. The franchise system was the fastest-growing business in the world. Fisher and Paykel had been franchising for 47 years.
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