Sydney hailstorm 'perfect opportunity' to increase prices

Two Sydney roofing companies - ANZ Roofing Pty Ltd and Ivy Contractors Pty Ltd - have provided enforceable undertakings to the ACCC acknowledging that they had discussions on pricing following Sydney hailstorms.

One of the directors of ANZ Roofing (Burtenshaw) posted a photo of large hailstones on industry Facebook groups with the caption: ‘I think 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!‘

In their enforceable undertaking ANZ Roofing and Burtenshaw admit that this and related conduct ‘likely constituted an attempt to contravene, or an attempt to induce a contravention of, s 45AJ of the CCA through the fixing, maintaining or controlling of prices for the supply of roofing services in the greater Sydney area.’

Brent Callan-Kerkenezov, the sole director of Ivy Contractors, replied to Burtenshaw’s post with the comment ‘Let’s all agree that we start from $65 and go up’.

In their enforceable undertaking Callan-Kerkenezov and Ivy Contractors accept that this and related conduct ‘likely constituted an attempt to contravene, or an attempt to induce a contravention of, s 45AJ of the CCA through the fixing, maintaining or controlling of prices for the supply of roofing services in the greater Sydney area.’

View ACCC media release.

View ANZ Roofing Pty Ltd and Mark Lee Burtenshaw Enforceable Undertaking

View Ivy Contractors Pty Ltd and Brent Cameron Callan-Kerkenezov Enforceable Undertaking