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The Break Fast Show #326
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In today’s show: Eight NFDC companies admit involvement in bid rigging across 19 contracts worth over £150 million; Hillhead 2022 was sun-drenched extravaganza; Hyundai enters the articulated hauler sector; and Kobelco takes the wraps off a true demolition beast. PLUS Wacker Neuson targets site dumper safety. All that and more, on The Break Fast Show.
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CMA probe – The blast and the fallout
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On Friday 24 June 2022, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) dropped a bomb on the UK demolition industry. Even though it was the culmination (for now) of a cartel-busting investigation that has been running for more than three years and which has been public knowledge for almost as long, the bomb came as something...Read moreRead more
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The Break Fast Show #327
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In today’s show: The CMA collusion probe – The blast and the fallout; HS2 pushes the compaction technology envelope; and we take a leisurely stroll around Liebherr’s stand at last week’s Hillhead show. PLUS Dynapac is getting set for Bauma 2022. All that and more on The Break Fast Show:
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McGee earmarks £2.4 million for CMA penalty
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McGee Group has become the latest demolition company to reveal the size of the provision it has made for any fines that might arise from the Competition and Markets Authority probe into bid rigging and price fixing with the industry. The company has revealed that it was set aside £2.4 million to cover the financial...Read moreRead more
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CMA – Our viewers have their say
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In light of the findings of the Competition and Markets Authority probe into alleged bid rigging and price fixing in the UK demolition industry, we asked our viewers what they thought about the companies named and about the trade association of which they are all members. These are their thoughts.
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The Break Fast Show #328
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In today’s show: As McGee Group sets aside £2.4 million to cover fines arising from the price-fixing probe, you have your say on the CMA fallout. As one of the eight NFDC companies that have admitted involvement in price fixing is fined over the death of a worker back in 2019, we ask: What price...Read moreRead more
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Paltry fine for power station fatality
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A £5,000 fine has been levied against a demolition contractor after an employee – Gary Robertson – fell to his death when a rusty pipe bridge platform collapsed. The incident happened on 6th February 2019 at Longannet Power Station, Fife. By September 2020 the contractor concerned – Brown & Mason Ltd – was in administration...Read moreRead more
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2022/06/28/25329/

The eye of the storm
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The “voice of the demolition industry” is characteristically silent amidst the bid rigging scandal that has named 10 of its members. The Federation is choosing inaction when action is so clearly required. In the eye of the storm, the NFDC is apparently hoping the whole thing will blow over. Anyone that has seen the movie...Read moreRead more
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2022/06/2 ... the-storm/

John F. Hunts sets aside £5.6 million…
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CMA provisions made by NFDC members hit £23 million; and we’re not even at the halfway point. Demolition contractor John F Hunt has become the latest firm to reveal how much it says its involvement with bid-rigging will cost it. The company is one of 10 that cartel-buster the Competition and Markets Authority publicly named...Read moreRead more
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The Break Fast Show #330
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In today’s show: The saying says “cometh the hour, cometh the man”. But what if the hour cometh and the wrong man cometh with it? We’re headed Down Under for some Australian-style silo demolition; and we take a gentle stroll around Komatsu’s stand at Hillhead 2022. PLUS we’re also headed back to Sweden for an...Read moreRead more
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2022/06/3 ... -show-330/