HEAVY FINE FOR PEPSICO’S SNACKS ARM IN GREECE
February 1st, 2012
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
OFFICIALS at Greece's competition regulator have told just-food the PepsiCo subsidiary fined almost Euro EUR16.2 million for abusing its dominant position in the market from 2000 to 2008 had been operating "without giving a thought to competition".
The Hellenic Competition Commission fined Tasty Foods a company producing and distributing of salty snacks in Greece under the brand name Lay's. Sources at the Commission said the case against Tasty Foods (owned by PepsiCo) was originally brought by its Greece based ...
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