Topic: Resale price maintenance

Greece’s Competition Commission has settled vertical restraints cases for the first time after four garden tool importers and distributors admitted to separately setting minimum resale prices for up to six years.

25 July 2022

France’s Competition Authority has sent statements of objections to four electrical equipment manufacturers alleging that they fixed resale prices, three years after an investigative journal revealed the alleged conduct.

06 July 2022

A consumer rights advocate has filed the UK’s first proposed collective action seeking damages for alleged resale price maintenance, with a claim against Fender that follows on from the instrument maker’s £4.5 million fine from the country’s antitrust enforcer.

06 July 2022

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a complaint brought by a shipping company alleging that Latvia’s Competition Council conducted unlawful dawn raids during its investigation into the company’s alleged cartel conduct.

06 July 2022

Ecuador’s antitrust watchdog has fined Odebrecht and a state-owned electricity distributor a combined €55 million after the former bribed government officials to ensure it won tenders for construction and repair work, marking the first time the agency has punished a contractor and a contractee for bid-rigging.

24 June 2022

Portugal’s specialist competition court has denied Super Bock’s request to dismiss a class action seeking damages against the brewer stemming from a €24 million fine for imposing minimum resale prices on its downstream retailers.

27 May 2022

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has refused to fast-track a standalone resale price maintenance damages claim against a luxury lingerie maker, ruling that the duration and complexity of the case make it unsuitable for such a procedure.

24 May 2022

The UK’s antitrust watchdog has fined a lighting supplier £1.5 million for restricting online discounts after receiving two formal warning letters about its conduct, marking the agency’s second resale price maintenance fine in the sector in recent years.

24 March 2022

The Competition Commission of Pakistan has fined a pair of electronic appliance manufacturers €5.6 million for punishing dealers that sold their products below set prices.

15 March 2022

China’s antitrust authority has fined the local subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceutical company Geistlich Pharma €1.3 million for dictating resale prices for a pair of products used in dental implants over a 12-year period.

01 March 2022