TL;DR The Archery Trade Association (ATA) and its member companies, including Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Hoyt, Mathews, Bowtech, and PSE, allegedly ran a coordinated price-fixing cartel affecting the entire U.S. archery market from at least 2014 to…
Antitrust Price Fixing Corporate Accountability How Simmons Bought Silence A federal appeals court just blessed an $8 million (enough to pay a year’s groceries for roughly 8,000 families) settlement that shuts down every lawsuit against a chicken industry cartel player…
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…