Topic: Price fixing

Lukoil and Georgia’s four other largest petrol and diesel suppliers must pay roughly €1.4 million in fines for fixing prices, after the national antitrust agency issued its third infringement decision against the companies.

22 August 2023

Bumble Bee Foods’ private equity backer may be liable for damages resulting from its role in a conspiracy to fix canned tuna prices, a federal judge in California has said.

22 August 2023

A class of cattle ranchers failed to show that they have antitrust standing to bring price-fixing allegations against four major US meatpackers, a federal judge in Minnesota has said.

21 August 2023

A pair of Japanese shipping companies must pay roughly €1.3 million in fines after admitting their role in the international roll-on, roll-off price-fixing cartel, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled.

18 August 2023

Sony will have to fight off another proposed class action claim after a Portuguese consumer rights group filed an opt-out lawsuit alleging it overcharges customers for PlayStation games.

08 August 2023

Brazil’s competition enforcer has fined five companies and two directors more than €10.2 million for fixing prices in the fuel market and imposed a penalty barring the individuals from holding senior positions in the sector for the next five years.

04 August 2023

Kosovo’s Competition Authority has opened an investigation into five unnamed cooking oil companies for price-fixing and controlling the production of cooking oil.

04 August 2023

Inapplicable expert evidence that failed to address the uniqueness of the Canadian market “torpedoed” a pair of class action lawsuits accusing several canned tuna companies of fixing prices, a court has ruled.

03 August 2023

Four of Japan’s largest property insurers are reportedly facing claims they colluded to fix the prices of premiums sold to major corporate customers.

03 August 2023

Amazon may have to face claims it illegally monopolised the market for retail ebooks after a magistrate judge in New York found that purchasers had plausibly alleged they suffered antitrust injury.

03 August 2023