Tag: Price Fixing
Pilgrim’s Pride Settles Chicken Price-Fixing Suit, Again
A pair of producers, Pilgrim’s Pride and Mar-Jac Poultry, have agreed to pay US$75.5 million and US$1 million respectively to end chicken price fixing...
Pilgrim’s Pride Execs, Koch Foods Charged With Chicken Price-Fixing
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday, July 29, announced charges against Koch Foods and four Pilgrim’s Pride executives over their roles in a...
Buyers’ Cartels: Prevalence and Undercharges
This article supplements information on 24 U.S. domestic buyers’ cartels cited in a 2010 book by Blair & Harrison by assembling and analyzing a...
Patents and Price Fixing by Serial Colluders
By William E. Kovacic (George Washington University), Robert C. Marshall (Pennsylvania State University) & Michael J. Meurer (Boston University)
Antitrust law has long been mindful...
CEO Compensation and Product Market Collusion
By Sangeun Ha, Fangyuan Ma & Alminas Žaldokas1
Introduction
Product market collusion cases are rampant and span different industries. Recent and ongoing investigations in the U.S....
Canada’s Regulator Says Wage-Fixing Is Not Price Fixing
On November 27, 2020, the Canadian Competition Bureau released a statement regarding the application of the Competition Act to no-poaching, wage-fixing, and other buy-side agreements. Canadian legal...
Portugal Issues Statements Of Objections To Six Supermarkets & Two Drink...
The AdC – Portuguese Competition Authority issued Statements of Objections to 6 large food retail chain groups and 2 suppliers, one of non-alcoholic beverages...
Pharma Giant Charged With Price-Fixing In Generics Probe
The Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday, June 30, charged generic drug giant Glenmark Pharmaceuticals with manipulating the prices of drugs sold in the US,...
Ryanair Wants EU Watchdog To Check Lufthansa Price-Fixing
Ryanair has filed a complaint to EU antitrust regulators about alleged talks between Lufthansa’s Italian unit Air Dolomiti and three Italian airlines to fix...
Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Visit DOJ and...
By: Robert Connolly (Cartel Capers)
A. The Broiler Chicken Civil Litigation/Criminal Indictment
On June 3, 2020, a grand jury in Colorado returned an indictment...
