Chiquita also participated in this activity, but the EU’s competition commission said it could not have opened the investigation without that company’s initial cooperation.
Chiquita escaped a fine of $113 million (83.2 million euros) by bringing the activity forward and applying for leniency, EU officials said in a press release.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
EU fines Dole and Del Monte for banana price-fixing
The European Union fined Dole over $60 million for engaging in price-fixing on bananas. A German company, Weichert, was fined $20mil, but Del Monte will have to pay the fine because they owned Weichert at the time of the violations. Chiquita escaped fines by blowing the whistle:
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