Loblaw ending 50% discount on some food items raises concerns about anti-competitive behaviour

The revelation that Loblaw will end its 50 per cent discount on perishable foods like meat, fruit and vegetables as they near their best-before dates should attract the attention of Canada’s Competition Bureau, says one industry expert.  Prof. Sylvain Charlebois, the director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-food Analytics Lab, believes the action taken by the grocery chain to align its policy with other food retailers might be … Read more

Five companies fined RM415mil for fixing chicken feed price

KUALA LUMPUR: Five companies have been fined a total of RM415mil for fixing the price of chicken feed, says the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC). MyCC chief executive officer Iskandar Ismail said the companies were found to have infringed Section 4 of the Competition Act 2010 by forming a cartel to fix the price of chicken … Read more

Canada Bread blames former owner Maple Leaf Foods for price-fixing scheme

The bread supplier that admitted to price-fixing earlier this year says any anti-competitive behaviour it participated in was at the direction and to the benefit of its then-majority owner Maple Leaf Foods. In a statement of defence for a class-action lawsuit alleging a bread price-fixing scheme, Canada Bread denies participating in a “lengthy, wide-ranging conspiracy” … Read more