EUROPEAN COMMISSION FINES COMPANIES INVOLVED IN CANNED MUSHROOMS CARTEL
June 8th, 2014
The European Commission has fined two of three companies Euro EUR32.23 million involved in a cartel for private label canned and jarred mushrooms from 2010 to 2012.Brussels has also given Lutèce, of the Netherlands, immunity from what would have been a EUR20.7 million fine, given it blew the whistle on the cartel's existence. Its collaborators Prochamp, also of the Netherlands, and Bonduelle, of France, however paid fines of EUR2.02 million and EUR30.20 million respectively. These had been reduced by 10% each for acknowledging their liability (as did Lutèce), ...
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