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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10700

2 October 2012
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) antitrust
Food packaging companies suspected of cartel involvement

Brussels, 01/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - On 28 September, the European Commission sent a statement of objections to thirteen manufacturers or distributors of polystyrene (PS) foam trays and polypropylene (PP) rigid trays. These products are widely used for packaging food - such as fish, meat or cheese - in the retail sector. The Commission believes the companies may have participated in a cartel involved in price fixing, market sharing, customer allocation, exchanges of commercially sensitive...

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