The French Competition Authority fines three industrial sandwich manufacturers €24.5M for an anticompetitive agreement (Roland Monterrat / La Toque Angevine / Daunat)

The Autorité de la concurrence fines the three main French manufacturers of industrial sandwiches sold under retailer’s own brand label for anticompetitive agreement* Background The Autorité de la concurrence fines Roland Monterrat, La Toque Angevine (hereinafter "LTA") and Snacking Services (hereinafter "Daunat"), all three of which manufacture own-brand label sandwiches for mass retail distribution, for having devised and implemented, between September 2010 and September 2016, a plan to share volumes and customers and agree on prices. This case illustrates the benefit of the leniency procedure The practices were revealed thanks to the leniency procedure, which allows undertakings that have participated in an anticompetitive agreement to disclose its existence to the Autorité and