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Aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete market investigation

Date of referral: 18.01.12 Statutory deadline: 17.01.14

Email: aggregates@cc.gsi.gov.uk

Working papers

Working Papers are published to invite comments and assist the Inquiry Group develop its thinking on key areas. They should not be considered as containing the Group’s definitive views. For further information see the CCs Guidelines for Market Investigations (PDF, 675 Kb) , draft for public consultation, in particular paragraphs 56 and 57.

Working papers	Date published
Aggregates price-concentration analysis and entry and exit analysis: first results (PDF, 440 Kb)	11.01.13
Analysis of price announcements for bulk cement (PDF, 282 Kb)	27.11.12
Analysis of the internalization of cement purchases in 2009 (PDF, 36 Kb)	18.01.13
Barriers to entry and expansion (PDF, 459 Kb)	23.11.12
Cement customer switching (PDF, 613 Kb)	08.02.13
Competition aspects of regulation and government policy (PDF, 344 Kb)	10.01.13
Coordinated effects in Great Britain cement (PDF, 1.9 Mb)	15.03.13
Cross-sales in bulk cement (PDF, 152 Kb)	30.11.12
Cement imports (PDF, 304 Kb)	19.02.13
GGBS/PFA (PDF, 122 Kb)	27.02.13
Market background – company profiles of the five Majors: Aggregate Industries, Cemex, Hanson, Lafarge and Tarmac (PDF, 1.0 Mb)	Originally published on 20.12.12 Republished on 25.01.13
Market background – company profiles of the medium-tier independents (PDF, 174 Kb)	18.01.13
Market definition (PDF, 215 Kb)	01.11.12
Note summarizing case study document review (PDF, 48 Kb)	18.01.13
Note summarizing case study telephone interviews (PDF, 80 Kb)	18.01.13
Planned approach to assessing profitability in aggregates , cement and ready-mix concrete markets (PDF, 467 Kb)	23.11.12
Policy and regulation: aggregates (PDF, 321 Kb)	20.12.12
Policy and regulation: regulations covering carbon emissions in the cement and aggregates markets (PDF, 351 Kb)	20.12.12
Price increase announcement letters in aggregates (PDF, 438 Kb)	30.11.12
Price parallelism in bulk cement (PDF, 250 Kb)	28.11.12
Summary of Competition Commission’s review of internal documents (PDF, 45 Kb)	18.01.13
Summary of Competition Commission’s review of internal documents (cement) (PDF, 61 Kb)	12.02.13
The Lafarge/Tarmac joint venture and the acquisition by Mittal of Hope Construction Materials (PDF, 600 Kb)	04.03.13