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2023-03-10 10:00:00

Chicken of the Sea to pay USD 13 million to settle direct purchaser price-fixing lawsuit

El Segundo, California, U.S.A.-based company and its Bangkok, Thailand-based parent firm, Thai Union, have agreed to settle price-fixing claims made in a class-action lawsuit filed a number of grocers. The allegations stem from a criminal case in which Chicken of the Sea  served as a whistleblower , which ultimately resulted in criminal convictions for rivals Bumble Bee Foods and Starkist . The civil class-action lawsuit that followed alleged the so-called 'big three' tuna companies overcharged for tuna they sold between 2011 and 2015.

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