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Chick-Fil-A® Suing Major Broiler Producers

12/10/2020

Chick-Fil-A®, with a reputed $11 billion in annual revenue, has sued AgriStats and 16 major broiler integrators alleging anti competitive activity from 2016 onwards.  The latest iteration captioned Chick-Fil-A v AgriStats et al 20-CV-07205, was filed on December 7th in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago.

 

Chick-Fil-A® maintains that suppliers “possess significant market power in the market for broilers and that their conduct had actual anti-competitive effects with no or insufficient offsetting pro-competitive justifications”.  Essentially the Chick-Fil-A® suit parallels similar litigation filed on behalf of retail chains and restaurants. In all probability cases will be consolidated given commonality of issues.

 

The most recent filing must be viewed in the light of criminal indictments against executives at Pilgrim's Pride Corporation and Claxton Foods and a settlement entered into between Pilgrim’s Pride and the Department of Justice.

 

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