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US tuna price fixing lawsuit alleges Thai Union, Bumble Bee co-packing is ‘opportunity to collude’

Lawsuit accusing US big three tuna brands of keeping prices for finished products high when raw material was low, with co-packing arrangement between Chicken of the Sea plant in Georgia and Bumble Bee’s site in California cited  

By Tom Seaman | Aug. 6, 2015 09:40 BST
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The US co-packing arrangement between plants owned by Thai Union Frozen Products and Bumble Bee Foods is cited in a lawsuit accusing the two companies, as well as Dongwon Industries-owned Starkist, of price fixing on canned tuna [...]

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