Milking the consumer? Price-fixing row hits UK dairy
By: just-food.com | 20 September 2007
Claims that UK retailers and dairy processors have colluded to raise the price of milk, butter and cheese will have caused a wry smile among the country's food suppliers, who often complain of the undue pressure placed on them by the country's powerful grocers. just-food analyses the claims that price-fixing has cost UK shoppers some GBP270m (US$542m).
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Claims that UK retailers and dairy processors have colluded to raise the price of milk, butter and cheese will have caused a wry smile among the country's food suppliers, who often complain of the undue pressure placed on them by the country's powerful grocers. just-food analyses the claims that price-fixing has cost UK shoppers some GBP270m (US$542m).
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