"Company","Current Parent Company","Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement","Recap of Ownership Changes","City / Town","County","Nation / Region","Company Number","Penalty (in pounds)","Penalty Year","Penalty Date","Offence Group","Offence Type","Violation Description","Settlement Type","Case Number","Agency","HQ Country of Parent","Ownership Structure of Parent","Major Industry of Parent","Specific Industry of Parent","Parent company ISIN","Source of Data","Source Notes" "Lactalis McLelland Limited","Lactalis","Lactalis","","","","","","1,660,000","2011","20110810","competition-related offences","price-fixing or anti-competitive practices","Arla, Asda, Dairy Crest, McLelland, Safeway, Sainsbury's, Tesco, The Cheese Co. and Wiseman were fined in a decision by the OFT that the companies coordinated price increases in dairy products by the supermarkets indirectly exchanging retail pricing intentions with each other via the dairy processors. Arla was granted immunity from a fine under the leniency programme as the first to alert the OFT to the existence of possible infringements. Tesco appealed its original £10.43 million fine to the Competition Appeal Tribunal, which partly upheld its appeal leading to a settlement with a reduced £6.5 million penalty.","Settlement with OFT","","Office of Fair Trading","France","privately held","food products","dairy products","","https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/dairy-products-investigation-into-retail-pricing-practices",""