Misrepresentations cost Multigroup Distribution Services $80,000.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 January 2004-ACCC: Misrepresentations cost Multigroup Distribution Services $80,000(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01152004 A failed Townsville freight business will receive $80,000 compensation after settlement of an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission court action.

The Federal Court, Brisbane, has declared that Multigroup Distribution Services Pty Ltd, through its former Townsville manager Mr John O'Neile, engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct by representations made to a prospective line-haul subcontractor. Mr O'Neile told Mr Wayne Parker and Parker Freight Express Pty Ltd that Multigroup was dissatisfied with its then existing line-haul subcontracting arrangements between Townsville and Mount Isa. Mr Parker...