Fines totalling CZK 313,000,000 (EUR 10,000,000) were imposed.

Most domestic distributors of branded products, such as cars, clothing and cosmetics, are commission agents of foreign distributors or manufacturers.

A dawn raid on the offices of the distributors produced incriminating email messages and other electronic documents.

Women represent only 22 per cent of employees in the civil service, distributed as follows

Further investigations also revealed a likely cartel of distributors who were alleged to be hoarding the product and thus creating an artificial shortage in the marketplace, leading to higher prices.

However, websites run by direct tourism providers such as hotels and transport companies are attracting travellers seeking better prices by avoiding third party distributors.

However, for small scale distributors to survive by capturing the above opportunities there is a need to develop skills and entrepreneurship so as to improve their competitiveness.

The Office for the Protection of Competition (the Office) found that there was no objective justification for this rise in prices other than a mutual agreement as a result of the distributors' contact with each other through the Czech Association of Petrol Industry and Trade.

The second problem was the distributors might add additional restrictions, either by adding restrictions to the license, or by combining the software with other software which had other restrictions on its distribution.

The few foreign distributors that are present in the market have had a positive impact on the sector in terms of promoting the upgrading of the quality of goods provided by local suppliers, including suppliers of agricultural products.

They allow customers to find the best value or lowest price for air tickets and hotels, browsing databases of a large number of distributors that often promise the lowest fare.

Most resellers, a little nervous about Bing s tool that sends users to book directly with airlines and hotels, are even more concerned about what Google might be up to.

In one area of Kenya, farmers who had to travel 17 kilometers to reach an agrodealer in 2004 had to travel only four kilometers three years later.

Very recently business to consumer (B2C) auctions with a twist have started to evolve they are more similar to the original business to business (B2B) auctions than mobile reverse auctions in that they offer consumers the option of placing a specification before retailers or resellers and allowing them to publicly bid for their business.

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa has worked with governments, international organizations, charitable foundations, private industry, and farmers groups to train and support more than 5,000 agrodealers in eastern and western Africa as they open stores to sell key inputs in small, affordable quantities.

It was originally released by the Taiwanese game company Bit Corporation in conjunction with local distributors around the world, such as Alston Research in the USA, the joystick maker Cheetah Marketing in the UK, and toy company GIG in Italy.