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UNIT ONE
TEXT ONE
Tesco is preparing a legal battle to clear its name of involvement in the dairy price-fixing
scandal that has cost consumers £270 million. Failure to prove that it had no part in collusion with
other supermarkets and dairy processors may land it with a fine of at least £80 million. The Office
of Fair Trading (OFT) said yesterday that Asda, Sainsbury’s and the former Safeway, plus the
dairy companies Wiseman, Dairy Crest and Cheese Company, had admitted being in a cartel to fix
prices for milk, butter and cheese. They were fined a total of just over £116 million as part of a
leniency deal offered by the watchdog to companies that owned up quickly to anti-competitive
behaviour.
Officials at the OFT admitted privately that they did not think they would ever discover
which company or individual had initiated the pricing formula. But the watchdog recognises that
at the time supermarkets were under pressure from politicians and farmers to raise the cost of milk
to save dairy farming, though it is not certain that money found its way to farmers. The OFT
claimed in September that it had found evidence that the retail chains had passed future milk
prices to dairy companies, which then reached a fixed price among themselves.
The average cost to each household is thought to be £11.25 over 2002 and 2003. Prices went
up an extra 3p on a pint of milk, 15p on a quarter of a pound of butter and 15p on a half pound of
cheese. There is no direct recompense for consumers, however, and the money will go to the
Treasury. The National Consumer Council gave warning that the admissions would dent
consumer confid
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