Sentence examples for mmc- from inspiring English sources

In particular, the committee is likely to focus its criticisms on the exclusive franchise system which gives the car manufacturers dictatorial powers over their dealer networks.More serious for the car makers, John Bridgeman, the head of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), prodded by the select committee, is on the point of referring the industry to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC).

For the German car maker has also taken on the challenge of resuscitating an ailing Japanese car maker so the better Mr Ghosn does, the more it has to live up to.Mitsubishi Motor (MMC) is nowhere near as big as Nissan, but its problems are similar.

In that year Parliament, on advice from the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC), introduced the Beer Orders, aimed at curbing the power big brewers had through their ownership of public houses and control over the beer sold in them.

This was in the context of the Irish situation and has no relevance to the present case.Birds Eye Wall's has always complied with the 1982 undertakings laid down by the MMC.

The OFT, prodded by a parliamentary report which lambasted car dealers, retailers and importers for a variety of anti-competitive practices, is on the verge of referring the industry, worth £24 billion ($40 billion) a year, to the MMC for a full inquiry.

A reference to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) may be ordered on political grounds but Whitehall sources are sceptical about what, if anything, it would achieve.Net profit margins of British supermarkets, averaging 6%, are double those of supermarkets on the continent.

In Emerson and Jutla [1988] and in its final form in Emerson and Jutla [1999], it was shown that (MMC-SAT) and (RPDL-SAT) are EXPTIME-complete.

It comes with one gigabyte of built-in memory, an SD-MMC slot for additional memory and high-speed U.S.B. for transfer to PC's and PictBridge printers.

After raising £1.5m for expansion in 2001 ($2.2m, at the exchange rates of the day) from MMC Ventures and 3i, two venture-capital houses, the firm has seen its sales jump from less than £2m a year to almost £10m.

"There would have to be an entire rethinking of how you campaign and how you market these movies," said Lynne Segall, the publisher of MMC Entertainment, which operates Movieline.com and other Web sites.

|  The Malaysian power company Malakaoff, a unit of the MMC Corporation, plans to list in the second quarter of next year, Reuters reports.