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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9762

16 October 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Banana cartel fined €60.3 million

Brussels, 15/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission revealed on, 15 October that it had imposed fines totalling over €60 million on a number of banana importers. Chiquita, Dole and Weichert, the Commission says, participated in a cartel between 2000 and 2002 and coordinated the setting of their quotation prices for bananas in eight EU member states. At the time of the infringement, Weichert was trading mainly Del Monte branded bananas. Chiquita was not fined as it provided...

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