Carrefour Market Lead but Hold No Monopoly
Carrefour Indonesia protested the Follow-up Report (LHPL) Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) on suspicion of alleged monopoly on the French retailer that.
“We from the beginning did not agree with KPPU. KPPU’s allegations are unfounded,” said Director of Corporate Affairs Carrefour Indonesia.
According to him, the accused alleged monopoly at the company incorrectly. Based on Nielsen research, Carrefour’s market share in modern retail prior to the acquisition of only 14.5 percent and up to 17 percent after the acquisition of Alpha. In addition, according to research Mars Indonesia, Carrefour’s market share in modern retail by 5.8 percent.
“Inspection team did not examine all evidence, documents, and information has been provided by the PTB Carrefour Indonesia during the review process,” he said.
PTB legal counsel Carrefour Indonesia, Ignatius Andy explained Carrefour is the market leader (market leader) but does not have a monopoly position and is not dominant. ”The team that inspectors have the market share data reported (Carrefour) and reported small does not have a monopoly position and is not dominant. 6 Table 7 pages LHPL,” he said.
Andy explained based on the data, Carrefour Indonesia has a market share in 2007 for only 19.63 per cent.
According to Andy, KPPU not act fairly because calculating the combined market share in Alfa Carrefour but it was not done for other retailers. ”It’s also Hero has Giant outlets, the Sun Group also has various other forms of retail,” he added.
Not Huge
Andy admitted Carrefour’s leading national retail market but do not have a monopoly position.”We also experienced losses in some stores we have,” he said.
Some outlets are closed in Megamall Pluit, Ratu Plasa, Braga City dan Molis di Bandung.
In addition to closing, a few other outlets also suffered losses among other outlets in the ITC Surabaya, Kalimas, Bekasi Square, Kiara Leaning Bandung, Sukajadi Bandung, Cikarang, Daan Mogot, Rungkut Surabaya, Madiun, Cakung and Ciputat. ”The reasons vary, there are as unable to compete as well,” said Irawan.
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