Took the fingers into the pot of applesauce. Manufacturers in Andros, Materne, Charles & Alice, Preserves, France (St Mamet), Valade and Delis (Lactalis group) are convened on Wednesday 10 July by the competition Authority. The reason for it? Suspicion of agreement between the manufacturers of this dessert is very popular for meet, together, their price on the compote and put pressure on the supermarkets, between 2010 and 2013.
This approach is the cartel or the agreement. Or a set of companies that are generally competing with a horizontal way and secret in order to influence artificially on a market. They act on the price or on the production with the objective of maximizing their profits, and the effect of reducing competition.
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