Sentences with phrase «alleged dairy price»

A number of UK - based retailers and dairy processors have admitted involvement in alleged dairy price fixing for powdered milk, butter and cheese, resulting in combined fines of about # 116m ($ 161m).

December 2007 also saw a number of UK - based retailers and dairy processors admitting involvement in alleged dairy price fixing for powdered milk, butter and cheese, resulting in combined fines of about # 116m ($ 161m) from the country's own regulator.

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Against this backdrop, the company faces a class action, is being investigated by ASIC and the competition regulator ACCC has taken legal action in the Federal Court, alleging unconscionable conduct and misleading farmers in relation to forecasting a milk price of $ 6.05 when it allegedly knew dairy commodity prices were falling globally.

The case dates back to 2007 when the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleged that leading supermarkets and dairy processors including Tesco, Asda, Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman colluded to fix the prices of certain milk, butter and cheese products in 2002 and dairy processors including Tesco, Asda, Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman colluded to fix the prices of certain milk, butter and cheese products in 2002 and Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman colluded to fix the prices of certain milk, butter and cheese products in 2002 and 2003.

Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has agreed to pay $ 46m to settle a lawsuit that alleged it manipulated trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in an effort to drive up dairy product prices in thDairy Farmers of America (DFA) has agreed to pay $ 46m to settle a lawsuit that alleged it manipulated trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in an effort to drive up dairy product prices in thdairy product prices in the US.

In a provisional decision, the competition regulator alleged supermarkets Asda, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury, and Tesco, as well as dairy processors Arla, Dairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and chdairy processors Arla, Dairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and chDairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and cheese.

Dairy group Lactalis McLelland will face a reduced financial penalty from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) after accepting responsibility for its role in the alleged price fixing of cheeses in the UK.

Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has agreed to pay $ 158.6 m to settle a 2007 lawsuit that alleged it conspired with Dean Foods and others to suppress raw milk prices across 14 Southeast US states.

Lead trial counsel to the nation's largest dairy cooperative in multiple consumer antitrust class actions alleging conspiracy to suppress output and increase dairy prices.