Even to the casual observer it might appear that problems of market dominance and antitrust policy are almost daily in the news. Amongst the more prominent examples are the following: officials of the European Commission pay unannounced visits to the headquarters of some of the most famous companies in the world and seize documents that appear to show that they have been colluding on prices; a takeover bid for a highly respected and long-established UK confectionery firm is made by a foreign company and is allowed to proceed unhampered despite widespread protest; in the aviation industry a company whose name is a household word is accused of using.
