Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2011. Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed an Antitrust action against four packaged ice manufacturers alleging the companies illegally conspired not to compete against each other for packaged ice business in Northern and central Illinois.
Instead, the companies allegedly engaged in unlawful cooperative arrangements with their co-conspirators divvying up markets, trading customers, sharing pricing information, discussing price increases, and discouraging customers from switching suppliers by either quoting non-competitive prices to each other’s customers…
