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CNC fines produce packaging price-fixing cartel

By  |  January 24, 2012

The Comisión Nacional de la Competencia has handed out multi-million Euro fines to Linpac, Groupe Guillin and ILPA for their part in a fruit and vegetable packaging price-fixing cartel from 1999 to 2007, with emphasis on the years 2000 to 2004. The CNC’s decision comes after an 18-month investigation that found price-fixing summits and bilateral contracts enforcing the conspiracy.

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    ILPA has filed an appeal with the competition authority, claiming that their presence in the market in the period was only marginal.

    Source: Food Production Daily

     

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