Tag: Price-Fixing
FTC Sues Pesticide Makers For Price-Fixing
The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued two top pesticide manufacturers for allegedly entering into exclusive contracts with distributors that kept prices paid...
UK Fines Soccer Firms For Price Fixing
JD Sports, Elite Sports and Rangers FC have been fined a total of more than £2 million (€2.3 million) by the UK competition watchdog...
JBS Settles Pork Price-Fixing Allegations
In what has been an ongoing class-action lawsuit of pork price-fixing allegations, the JBS USA unit of Brazil’s JBS SA has been granted approval to...
Federal Court Allows Price-Fixing Class Action to Proceed Against Universities
By: Carl Hittinger, Ann O'Brien, Tyson Herrold & Nicholas Rose (Baker Hostetler/Antitrust Advocate)
Seventeen of U.S. News & World Report’s top 25 universities in the nation recently lost...
Australia’s Bingo Industries Pleads Guilty To Price Fixing
Bingo Industries, a former ASX-listed company that was taken over last year through a $2.3 billion bid by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, has...
DOJ Files New Antitrust Suit Over Poultry Price-Fixing
The Department of Justice said Monday it has filed a lawsuit accusing poultry processors Sanderson Farms (SAFM), Cargill Meat Solutions and Wayne Farms, as...
Democrats Consider Bills To Take On Price-Fixing
Citing skyrocketing prices for fuel and consumer goods while corporate profits soar, House Democrats on Wednesday held a hearing on corporate price hikes they...
UK Regulator Finds Illegal Price-Fixing Of Soccer Jerseys
Britain's biggest sportswear retailer JD Sports and rival Elite Sports broke competition law by fixing the retail prices of certain branded clothing products of Rangers...
Italy Fines Drugmaker For Price-Fixing
Antitrust regulators in Italy have fined a drugmaker nearly $3.8 million for years of “excessive” price hikes on a rare disease medicine, the latest...
South Korean Regulator Probes Shippers’ Alleged Price-Fixing Of Japan Routes
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission began reviewing possible punitive measures against a number of shippers over their alleged collusion in fixing freight rates for...
