First predatory pricing case before the Competition Tribunal* A year ago, we at AAT reported on the intervention by competitors in the merger between Media24 and Paarl Media. Today, we want to highlight a “one-year-later” feature about that same company, which has now been found liable of predatory exclusion of its rivals by the South African Competition Tribunal (the “Tribunal”). The Tribunal found on 8 September 2015 that Media24 had engaged in exclusionary conduct due to predation by removing a rival community newspaper publication, Gold Net News (“GNN”), out of the market. [1] Two routes explored by the South African Competition Commission's ("SACC") to sanction Media24's predation conduct In 2009, GNN exited the newspaper community market. Within 10 months of the exit of GNN,
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The South African Competition Tribunal addresses its first predatory pricing case in the newspaper market (Media24)
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