The Autorité dismisses a case concerning practices implemented in the meat-cutting sector

Summary:

For the first time, the Autoritu00e9 de la concurrence has examined mergers below the national notification thresholds under antitrust law. The Autoritu00e9 dismissed a case involving Akiolis, Saria, and Verdannet, which had created an agreement to allocate the French meat-cutting market by geography through 21 cross-divestitures of business assets in 2015. The Autoritu00e9 found that the information did not establish an overall geographic market allocation plan, and the merger agreements did not have an anticompetitive purpose.