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| #1 - Posted 12 October 2011, 9:13 PM | |
Location: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic Join date: August 2008 Member #: 1307 Posts: 10356  | Banana cartels - any comments? International crook businessmen fix banana prices. If anyone needs to fix prices it should be an banana OPEC for the banana prdoucing countreis. They are way to cheap. Fairtrade bananas are better than the others. http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/gobananas/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15272201 12 October 2011 Last updated at 14:21 GMT Banana firm Pacific fined over price fixing Pacific Fruit was running a price-fixing cartel with Chiquita Belgian banana firm Pacific Fruit has been fined 8.9m euros ($12.1m; £7.69m) over a price-fixing cartel in Europe. The European Commission fined Pacific for conspiring to fix prices in Greece, Italy and Portugal between July 2004 and April 2005. But its cartel partner, US firm Chiquita Brands, escaped the fine after blowing the whistle on the cartel. The companies fixed weekly sales prices and swapped price information. Pacific Fruit declined to comment on the case. EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said: "Companies need to be aware that the commission takes its anti-enforcement duties very seriously." It is the second banana cartel case in the EU in the last three years. In October 2008, Dole and Internationale Fruchtimport were fined 60m euros for fixing banana prices in several northern European states between 2000 and 2002. S. Edited on 10/12/2011 11:48 PM by abc200. |
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| #2 - Posted 12 October 2011, 11:40 PM | |
Location: United States Join date: June 2008 Member #: 933 Posts: 7988 | RE: Banana cartels - any comments? Quote: abc200 previously said: International crook businessmen fix banan aprices. If anyone needs to fix prices it should be an banana OPEC for the banana prdoucing countreis. They are way to cheap. Fairtrade bananas are better than the others. http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/gobananas/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15272201 12 October 2011 Last updated at 14:21 GMT Banana firm Pacific fined over price fixing Pacific Fruit was running a price-fixing cartel with Chiquita Belgian banana firm Pacific Fruit has been fined 8.9m euros ($12.1m; £7.69m) over a price-fixing cartel in Europe. The European Commission fined Pacific for conspiring to fix prices in Greece, Italy and Portugal between July 2004 and April 2005. But its cartel partner, US firm Chiquita Brands, escaped the fine after blowing the whistle on the cartel. The companies fixed weekly sales prices and swapped price information. Pacific Fruit declined to comment on the case. EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said: "Companies need to be aware that the commission takes its anti-enforcement duties very seriously." It is the second banana cartel case in the EU in the last three years. In October 2008, Dole and Internationale Fruchtimport were fined 60m euros for fixing banana prices in several northern European states between 2000 and 2002. S. More Fascism from the European Union! Hitler and Mussolini would have been proud Proof of dreadlocks Bigotry. "....... what did Cubans do to deserve preferential treatment?......and treat Black people in the most racist of ways.......... the Cubans are just a bunch of uberracist savages." : I WILL NOT ANSWER ANY POSTS BY THE BIGOT KNOWN AS DREADLOCKS. |
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| #3 - Posted 13 October 2011, 1:04 AM | |
Location: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic Join date: August 2008 Member #: 1307 Posts: 10356 | RE: Banana cartels - any comments? Quote: anthonyC previously said: Quote: abc200 previously said: International crook businessmen fix banan aprices. If anyone needs to fix prices it should be an banana OPEC for the banana prdoucing countreis. They are way to cheap. Fairtrade bananas are better than the others. http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/gobananas/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15272201 12 October 2011 Last updated at 14:21 GMT Banana firm Pacific fined over price fixing Pacific Fruit was running a price-fixing cartel with Chiquita Belgian banana firm Pacific Fruit has been fined 8.9m euros ($12.1m; £7.69m) over a price-fixing cartel in Europe. The European Commission fined Pacific for conspiring to fix prices in Greece, Italy and Portugal between July 2004 and April 2005. But its cartel partner, US firm Chiquita Brands, escaped the fine after blowing the whistle on the cartel. The companies fixed weekly sales prices and swapped price information. Pacific Fruit declined to comment on the case. EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said: "Companies need to be aware that the commission takes its anti-enforcement duties very seriously." It is the second banana cartel case in the EU in the last three years. In October 2008, Dole and Internationale Fruchtimport were fined 60m euros for fixing banana prices in several northern European states between 2000 and 2002. S. More Fascism from the European Union! Hitler and Mussolini would have been proud Of course aC is in favor of cartels just as long as the US government supplies them with guns.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042241/US-Government-used-taxpayers-money-buy-guns-sold-Mexican-drugs-cartels.html S. |
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| #4 - Posted 13 October 2011, 12:12 PM | |
Location: United States Join date: December 2007 Member #: 4 Posts: 17818 | RE: Banana cartels - any comments? anthonyc is a mental retard, who does not know , from one minute to the next, if he is afoot, or horseback. one minute he is for the FREE MARKET, the next minute he is against governments that seek to bust cartels. this is what happens when you drop out of school in the 5th grade. |
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