Investigation / Antitrust / Federal Trade Commission Docket C-4824 The 25-Town Oil-Change Squeeze Valvoline tried to buy out a rival quick-lube chain owned by private equity. The FTC found the deal would have handed one company dominant control of oil…
TL;DR Edwards Lifesciences already dominates the existing heart valve market and tried to buy the only other company developing a next-generation valve for a fatal heart condition affecting at least 8 million Americans. The technology at stake, called TAVR-AR, is…
The Price of Exclusivity The modern music industry operates on a fundamentally different economic model than it did just two decades ago. The precipitous decline of physical album sales, which fell by 50% between 1999 and 2009, and the rise…
EvilCorporations.com — Investigative Report Two Ad Giants Tried to Merge and Own the Information Pipeline FTC Complaint Issued — June 2025 — Source: Federal Trade Commission TL;DR Omnicom agreed to buy rival ad giant IPG for $13.5 billion (enough to…
TL;DR Four companies (Lamb Weston, McCain Foods, J.R. Simplot, and Cavendish Farms) allegedly conspired to fix prices on frozen French fries, tater tots, and hash browns, controlling roughly 97–98% of the U.S. market between them. A data analytics firm called…
Antitrust Investigation • Class Action • PVC Pipe Market The PVC Cartel:How America’s Pipe Giants Fixed Your Prices EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 1:24-cv-08012 (N.D. Ill.) • 59 min read TL;DR Twelve of the largest PVC pipe manufacturers in the United…