Roofing Companies Colluded On Prices After Hail Storm

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Two roofing companies have admitted they conspired to hike up prices after a massive hail storm hit Sydney last year, severely damaging rooves on thousands of properties.
Company directors from ANZ Roofing and Ivy Contractors, based in the greater Sydney area, were caught hatching the plan during conversations in a Facebook group.  
'This latest storm is the perfect opportunity for the roofers of Sydney to increase pricing across the board as a standard that doesn't decrease,' Mark Burtenshaw from ANZ Roofing wrote. 
'Let's all agree that we start from $65 [per square metre] and go up,' Ivy Contractor's Brent Callan-Kerkenezov replied. 
Two roofing contractors yuba city ca companies have admitted they conspired to hike up prices after a massive hail storm in 2018 (pictured) 
Thousands of houses and cars were damaged amounting to a repair bill of more than $125 million in the 2018 storm 
The storm Mr Burtenshaw referred to tore through Sydney in mid- December 2018 depositing hailstones the size of tennis balls and was the most expensive disaster for Australian insurance companies in that year.  
Thousands of houses and cars were damaged amounting to a repair bill of more than $125 million.  
The Facebook posts formed part of a trail of evidence that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) used in an investigation into the businesses. 
While the ACCC did not fine the companies due to their small size and cooperation with the investigation, they were required to sign enforcable undertakings acknowledging the conversations were an attempt to fix prices. 
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'Any attempts to take advantage of people whose homes were damaged in natural disasters like hailstorms is something the ACCC takes extremely seriously,' said ACCC chairman Rod Sims. 
'The community will not just find this outrageous, it is also anti-competitive, and illegal under Australian competition laws'. 
He said behaviour by competitors to set prices or share pricing information on social media or any forum would constitute a breach of the law. 
Both company directors promised to not repeat the behaviour and were ordered to receive compliance training in competition and consumer law. 
Both company directors promised to not repeat the behaviour and were ordered to receive compliance training in competition and consumer law