Re: wealth distribution and corporate control

["Tim Mitchell" <pentim@netspace.net.au>]

Jeff, Shann

Can you see any way of making it part of the rules when you will have say,
six state owned retail electricity companies and say, ten or more privately
owned companies (eg, CitiPower, which I think is US owned) competing in the
one market.

I'm focussing on this because the regulations on this are being thought
about and drafted as we speak. I have an opportunity to inject some ideas in
to the melting pot.

Cheers

Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: jeffgates <jeffgates@mindspring.com>
To: Tim Mitchell <pentim@netspace.net.au>; 'Homestead'
<Homestead@cog.kent.edu>; ownership@cog.kent.edu <ownership@cog.kent.edu>;
Shann Turnbull <sturnbull@mba1963.hbs.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 20,October, 1999 03:05
Subject: Re: wealth distribution and corporate control


>Certainly -- at least if you make it part of the rules of the game -- no
>one qualfies without it.  Otherwise, the margins in such bidding are, I
>expect, likely to be too thin for anyone to offer it.
>
>What'dya think Shann?
>
>Jeff
>
>At 11:58 PM 10/19/99 +1000, Tim Mitchell wrote:
>>Shann,
>>
>>To use a practical example that is close at hand, for you and me, but
within
>>the realms of possibility:
>>
>>Here in New South Wales, as of 1/1/2001, there will be full retail
>>contestability in gas and electricity, ie every home owner will have a
>>choice of a wide variety of supplier companies for these basic services.
>>
>>The competition will be ferocious. Companies will be pursuing all manner
of
>>creative marketing techniques to win customers from their rivals and
secure
>>the ones they already have.
>>
>>How could:
>>
>>(1) these companies offer CSOP incentives to customers; and
>>
>>(2) the State Government, which will regulate this competition, encourage
>>such incentivisation?
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Tim Mitchell
>>
>>
>
>