Dive summary:
- The Canadian Competition Bureau has charged Progressive Waste with violation of a consent agreement concerning the 2010 merger of IESI-BFC Ltd. and Waste Services Inc, Progressive Waste denies they did anything wrong.
- The Canadian bureau claims Progressive Waste violated the agreement by reacquiring a customer whose contract had been divested under the agreement, false declaration of compliance and failure to notify the Competition Bureau that the contract had been breached.
- Chaya Cooperberg, vice president for Progressive Waste says they will fight the matter in the courts stating, “We have at all times acted in good faith and used its best efforts to fully comply with its obligations under the consent agreement.”
From the article:
Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. is denying that it did anything improper following charges by the Canadian Competition Bureau that it violated a consent agreement of its earlier merger.
The Ottawa-based Competition Bureau said that Progressive violated the agreement reached with the bureau in 2010 on its merger of IESI-BFC Ltd. and Waste Services Inc, according to a news release from the bureau. The bureau charged that the Vaughan, Ontario-based Progressive violated the agreement by reacquiring a customer whose contract had been divested under the agreement, as well as false declaration of compliance and failure to notify that the contract had been breached. ...